Sunday, April 23, 2006

060423 - New Zealand River


Early hours at the Old Thomson Road.


The entrance to Upper Peirce is still dark


The sun rose to greet our arrival


Uncle Wong and Ady teasing some peacock basses


No action yet.


Then action


The McDowell bend for the peacock bass


Not too big but the fight was tremendous


With my foam popper


Close up


Hardy Bougle paired with The McDowell


Another peacock bass which I operated on. Look closely.


Can you see the damaged gill


One of its gill is damaged and is not red in colour. Probably decaying.


I used a pair sissors to cut off the gill because it was impairing the peacock bass natural swimming action








A little cove


Uncle Wong fighting a peacock bass


Ady with his peacock bass


Off to Ah Hoe's for our usual coffee to wake us up from our dreams.

posted by A Fly Fisherman @ 10:21 PM

060423 - Satellite Station




















Secluded Indian Temple, built around a sacred tree


The Sacred Tree


Temple trustees


























Ah Yeow caught another peacock bass on his #0 weight


Ah Yeow in action


Ah Yeow is the champion as usual











Ah Wee also caught his fair share of peacock basses


Fishing side by side for a big pod of peacock basses





This Thai was very helpful.
He help cleared snagged lures and flies by swimming into the water.
When he requested for the fishes for dinner for his group of co-workers, we couldn't refuse.


A good size 1.5 pound peacock bass. Dinner for the Thai Worker. TomYam Peacock Bass
His friends also caught many with their nets.




Enough TomYam Peacock bass for a month.

posted by A Fly Fisherman @ 6:15 AM