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Seneic's pasture, across from Sims/Cullen (3)
Feb 9, 1978
Took the Loch road (E side) from McIntyre to Wyndham and turned in at the big pasture of yellow Senecis in full bloom. This brought me to streamside directly opposite the Sims/Cullen place where Pete took me the first day. Started to rain about when we arrived and rained hard for several hours. He saw no rising fish and finally came back to the car for a damp lunch. I talked to a young man from Invercaigill who had caught one fish in a nymph, fisted deep under overhanging willows.
Went home for a period of rest before dinner, then cruised down the East side of the river about 3 miles from E Gore to the property of a Mr. Chalmers who lives at the junction of Kairara road. He gave me permission to drive across his paddocks to the river, more or less across from the Gore racetrack. As the first of a long, flat hole I ran into a heavy rise starting 5 PM and hooked a nice fish in a few minutes. By the time I landed him it was pretty dark (9:30 PM) and I had trouble tying on a fresh fly. Finally got going but rise was largely over. I had one more solid rise but missed the hook-up.
Woody got a fish at the head of the pool on a nymph. I didn't see up but just watched.
I cleaned my trout in the dark and left my knife on the riverbank.