Fishingbuddy

Fished the Nahoon river again this morning for a few hours, but this time further up near Tilty Hill, and managed this fish on a brown dragon pattern. The fishing was hard, well for me anyways. My buddy Chris was nailing them on rapalas. The wind was catching the valley at different angles, one minute from the front, then the back, left and right making casting a bit hairy at times. You had to drop your flies right next to the rocks on the opposite side of the river, takes occured within seconds of the fly landing, I missed a few takes before landing this one. Besides this though spending time on the river and catching bass on light fly tackle was worth it.

fish: Large Mouth Bass
length/weight:30 cm
rod:4/5 wt
line:floating
leader:9ft tapered, 3 kg tippet
location: upper Nahoon.
time:early morning.

The bass below was one of a few that fell to rapala: