I was just about to phone you !! :)

That is one nice trout. Did you get it fly fishing?

Oh...PS...I have seen that dog wearing goggles and riding a surf ski :):)

😉 Maxwell certainly gets around a bit. He's a big fan of snowboarding, paddle boarding and fishing :-)

no I didn't catch it with my fly rod. I certainly tried at first. But with my yet to be improved fly casting skills and lots of trees at the river edge I only managed to tangle up my leader and then after a few bush bashings to recover my fly I finally lost it to the river. Would have been funny to watch my failed attempt at fly fishing.

Surprisingly the trout didn't give a damn and seemed totally unimpressed by my acrobatics at the river edge.
They kept cruising around in the shallows. Then I quickly changed to my spinning outfit with a black veltic spinner and got a mini trout on the first cast, third cast I had a good one and almost got it reeled in. But again last minute couldn't land it against the current. Gotta improve my technique bringing them in. Always in the last few seconds they jump and shake off the hook.
And then eventually I got this great rainbow and finally managed to land it.

Half an hour later my wife got another smaller on that spinner. What a great day fishing, despite loosing my phone.

Nice Rainbow, so cant wait to get back home to NZ next month have been missing the trout fishing
here on the Gold Coast it has been estuary of creek/river fishing not that im complaining i've caught a few
new species and learnt a hellva lot
cheers hope to meet you some time on the road this coming year. 

believe it or not - after more than two weeks I just thought I'd give my phone one last chance before trashing it.
Plugged it in and it started charging again. It must have taken that long for it to completely dry out.
Some trapped water must have caused some short circuit and prevented it from charging or from being turned on for the past two weeks.

Amazing - my lucky day today :-)

Now you can call me again, itsaboat :-)