All anglers are now on the board. Gene leaped out to high gun yesterday with 3 (out of 5) fish landed. Chip has now landed 2 and Don and Charlie are bringing up the rear with one fish (and damned glad to have that one!). I fished the Upper Grey and the Blue Grey River yesterday. I went all the way to the final minutes of the day before I landed a really nice 4 1/2 lb fish.
This is such technical fishing. They stretched me out to a 15-16 ft. leader yesterday. In a strong downstream wind it was difficult to cast. In Montana rivers are rated in numbers of trout/mile, here there at best a few fish/mile. It is lot of hiking between fish (which the guides all seem to know by name, then scrambling down the river bank (often 8' or more) to the river and moving into position to make the cast. The slightest screwup and the fish is gone. These are old fish and they have seen it all. All of us (except young Chip) are counting our aches & pains.
Gene fished the Matakitaki River. Gene caught his big fish right below the gorge pictured above.
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