Kirby's Island, Hyndham Feb 11, 1978 Bright sunny morning but with a persistent north wind. He fished around the island where he had found rising fish on the morning of Feb 8 but there was no action at all. So about noon we fished into the car in our waders and drove to Flyers property at the junction of the Hyndham (Mohoreta) River and the Mataura. There were a few rises on the Hyndham and Woody catched a couple of "mice tiddlers" but failed to raise a decent fish. On the long cut bank of the Mataura Jed and I had a bit more action. Jed hooked a nice fish from the top of the bank but couldn't get down the 10 foot drop-off to land it. He tried to house it onto the beach finally lost but of course. I saw the situation and planned to come out with a net but was very busy at the moment with a big fish lying in a pocket of the cut bank. Never could raise him, on a dry fly or nymph. Sure didn't get either fish properly to the net, though Jed's was essentially captured. Jed had two other strikes on nymphs. Another bunch of Paradise ducks zoomed around me for a while - a dozen or so. Also there was an osprey-catcher on the bar near where I was fishing. Forgot to say yesterday that I picked up a car-killed owl ("moulpari") in the road north of Ranercdale.