Thread: Has anyone caught a salmon this season yet?

I have a wee theory about Waitaki Salmon. They used to spawn in pretty big numbers in the side streams. I suspect over the years they moved down from the Haka and a good portion spawned lower down. You certainly used to see a heap spawning. Now the Dairy farmers have cut almost all of those backwaters off. There is only a thin marginal strip of willows. I also think the run has got later, like well after the season. I say this because I know one stable piece of forgotten backwater and come late may, it will look like a stream in Alaska.