Fishing with a friend

I fished this past weekend with my fishing buddy Roland. So far this season I have always ventured out by myself to fish and it was great fun to fish with Roland again. It was also the first time this season that Roland came out to fish the streams, and for a change the fish, the weather God's and the stream levels played along to make it a memorable day out.

We started to fish just after 8am and Roland had the honors to fish the first run. On his 5th cast a pretty little rainbow took his dry. I casted shortly after he landed his fish and about three casts later I also had my first rainbow for the day. With the pressure of blanking out of the way we settled down and slowly fished up the river. The next 40minutes or so however things were dead quite and I wondered if bad owmen of catching a fish so quickly was going to come true.

Roland landing his first fish of the season

We eventually arrived at a lovely little run and Roland was fishing the one side and me the other. Roland got a take on the dry and while he was busy landing it I also get a hook up. From then on we landed fish after fish from every likely looking spot. At one spot there were a few fish rising to a hatch and we made turns catching all of them.

It was just one of those magical  "one fly all day" kind of days and fishing with a good friend made it so much better. The last couple a months have been hectic at work and I don't make enough time to go fishing these days. A day like this reminded me to do it more often.

Just another fishing day

I finally had the chance to go fishing one of my favorite un-named small stream yesterday. My fishing partner and I wanted to get on the water early but shortly before we had to leave the heavens opened and it started pouring down and we decided to put the trip of.

Two hours later the sun was shining and it looked like it would be a stunning day. I phoned him to tell him the trip's on and an hour and half later we were busy gearing up.

Right form the first cast I missed a fish and it looked like it was going to be a good day. This particular stream doesn't hold any big fish and is so overgrown that bow and arrow casts is the order of the day. My friend fished his 6"6 2 weight rod and I had my 3 weight rod. We both fished dry flies the whole day and both of us landed a number of fish.

A day on a Cape Stream

I finally got a chance today to celebrate the opening of our river season down here in the Cape. My mate Roland and I set out early this morning for one of the local streams.

The rivers are still a little high and the morning started of very slow. There were plenty of Mayflies on the water but we didn't see and fish or any rises.

Eventually at about 10am I got my first fish on a Elk Hair Caddis  and soon after Roland landed a beautiful brown trout on a Parachute Adams.

From then on we each made turns landing fish on both Nymphs and dries. It really was great to be out on the streams again, but the long winter worked its toll on my body and I can feel a few muscles complaining tonight.