Nice Article on Fishing the Matuara River, South Island, NZ

The always excellent Midcurrent fly-fishing site led me to a good article on fishing one of the best brown trout rivers in the world, in the New York Times.

Just one niggle, one little sentence in the article that makes a big mistake. It adds the instruction that when crossing farmland, “… do not fail to close a gate, lest livestock get out.” Wrong!

Farmers are the same world-over, and the instruction should be “leave gates as you find them, close them if you open them, leave them open if they were open.”