Hi Mike,
Missed your post until now. Thanks for the invitation to the club. I'm a member of the Auckland Fresh Water Angler's Club, and we have a club "hut" (house) that we use while there. Anyway, I fished Saturday and Sunday (in the rain on Sunday) and had no luck, but a lot of fun. Didn't see many fish taken (I think I saw 3 fish landed; one fairly small, the other two good sized but not huge; maybe 2 to 3 kgs?). I thrashed about with all sorts of nymphs and wet-lined a number of different streamers for variety, mostly around Island pool and worked my up to Breakfast pool. But, the river was crowded enough that it was getting hard to find a spot to stand.

With the rain that came down, however, there should be a good run come up this week. Too bad I'm back in Auckland now!

- Jeff