Thread: Fishing Mishaps

I can remember very clearly the first time a mate and I were heading off on tour of the Kaimanawa via the Waipakahi River. At the time we both had those telescopic spinning rods and the deal was that we were going to feed ourselves on trout until someone managed a deer. So mate gets all ready and tosses a spinner on every good pool that we came to without success. After an hour or two of this I suggested that we should get a extract the digit and get a move on to get to the camp site before it got too dark.
So I am in front cutting through a terrace above the river when I hear one very loud, ah fuck me. Unbeknown to my mate he had accidently pushed on the release lever for the reel and he had about 75 metres of nylon to wind back on Personally I thought it was a hell of a laugh.

The biggest laugh was on the pair of us when we found out that there were SFA trout up the river and what there were, were all of about 15 cms long