So we ended the last very long day with three fallow and we slept in the next morning. We got back to my place and butchered the deer; most of it was going for sausages. The prime cuts would age in the fridge for a while. Dan soon came to join us. The original plan was for the three of us to go for a fish. After a meal of deer heart and a few beers, we made a new plan. We continue our festivities for the afternoon, be in bed by dark, then rise at 0300hrs. by 0400hrs we would be looking for a red deer then start fishing at first light.
Well, we found our deer before we even launched the canoe. So we made a new plan; go catch some trout in the Barrell. It was a good plan. I put on my sinking line as I wanted to try some flies from the heave and leave pack. The krystal olive booby got a good rainbow then I set up Dan with a heave and leave globug. He soon got bored so I put on an egg sucking leech. I showed him how to let it sink then work it back. He caught a fish on that and a couple of other buggers. One was a bead head olive and black woolly bugger. He forgot what the other one was.Blair picked up a couple nymphing using a bead head pheasant tail with rubber legs above a March brown soft hackle wee wet fly.
I took Blair down to the next pool below Aniwhenua Dam. The school of 100 trout was there but it was difficult to see our globugs with the early morning glare. We managed a few using the egg sack orange and egg sack pink globugs. I only had the heave and leave pack and no other globugs on me. Remember, the original plan was to fish Lake Matahina. Dan came down and lost one on a bugger.
We headed out after that to collect our deer before it got too much sun. We had a few beverages while Blair cut up the deer, I cut up the trout and Dan just watched and drank. By early afternoon it was all over. Blair had plenty of meat to send to the butcher along with lots of extras from my freezers. All I want are more biersticks. It was a pretty full on three days.
