First trip season 2017/18

I'd been waiting a while for this trip and when it finally arrived I found the river to be at 1.50m running clear and fast. It took me a while to get used to the high and fast water. It created too many drifts which were dragging in the current. Line mending was much more important and casting directly above me helped a lot. Caught some nice fish for the week, many about 30cm ,but nothing of any size above that. Got em on nymphs which were heavy, some took the large stimmy I used as  an indicator and I also got a few on a range of dry flies later in the week. The highlight of this trip was searching for and finding a nice open part of the West Branch. Only about 5km from Harrietville, 3.5 km on the dirt road. A great walk, some nice trout, but really only an option when the main river is flowing quickly. The first section of Tumblegum was also a great section of water at this level , but the second section was running quickly and hard to fish. Took about 45 trout for the four days. Temp was about 15-18 degrees with some sun, a few showers one morning and a couple of overcast days. This was also our last trip to Alpine Arnica No. 2 as its all been sold. Hopefully, next trip is back to Number 1 unit.