Adaminaby, NSW season opening

First weekend in October... it's a bit like Christmas, only better. Just like the year before, I left Melbourne around 7pm with a 6.5 hour drive ahead of me. Battling through thick fog around Cabramurra I arrived at Kiandra around 3am on Saturday. Covo was already there, greeting me with a glass of Tullamore Dew as promised. We discovered early in our fishing years that whiskey is a great way to warm up during bitter cold Snowy Mountains mornings. We were on the water fishing with the first break of light. It didn't take long for me to land the first fish of the season and to christen my new Redington CPS 6wt. It was a dark, but well conditioned rainbow. In the next few hours four more fish were landed, with a 3lb brown being a surprise for the day. Covo contributed to a great start of the season by landing six. Weekend's total tally was 40 fish between us, all caught in Eucembene River and creeks around Kiandra. Of course most fish were released, both of us kept one fish each. All in all, another sensational weekend in the Snowies. The only downer was Storm losing the grand final.