"angler" wrote in message
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Hi,

I don't know how to describe what I've seen today without you guys
thinking that I'm lying.
We employed a guide today. This guide showed us what it means to sight
fish in a NZ stream with big browns.


We saw around 20 fish from lb5 up to lb15 (one rainbow and the rest
browns) and only a handfull more but smaller. The largest one of those
I had the pleasure of trying for, and let me tell you, it looked like a
friggin' atlantic salmon in size. The feeling, approaching that brown
still sends shivers down my spine.

McIntosh sympathizes---sounds like my experience-- in frustration in trying
to catch one of those submarines I finally hired a guide for 1/2 day.
A perfect cast, a hook up, a downstream run [joe and fish] a breakoff as
guide tries to net the monster with a net about 1/2 the size of the fish!!!
Having seen the Swede" cast I'm sure you will begin to catch soon. Are you
going to South Island.? Drive four miles up [?] river thru the sheep
farm--hike a couple of miles up beside big fast stream- watch really
monster big browns spook away from bank--- you might see one with my
leader, tippett, and hook flowing behind him!!