Fly Fishing Lake Otamangakau

Today we headed out fly fishing on Lake Otamangakau, which is known to be a great trophy lake, early in the morning to spend the day. It's a beautiful spot surrounded with volcanic mountains, one of which just erupted a few months ago, and is still billowing out smoke. We started off great with Jill landing about a 4 pound rainbow. It slowed down to a crawl for about the next 5 hours, with just one very small catch by Dave. After a picnic lunch Jill missed a couple, then landed a nice 6.5 pound rainbow. Dave hooked up a couple of times in the afternoon and lost both. :( Even though it was a much slower day than expected, we still had a fabulous day with great weather.