Well it’s been a while since I lasted posted to my blog but not for a lack of fishing – quite the opposite – heaps of fishing but limited computer access. Just got back yesterday from a three day raft fishing/camping trip with friends and fellow guides Ross Novak and Andrew Christmas. Had a great 3 days with plenty of trout and a heap of laughs. The weather was fantastic and looks to be another stella day today as I look out the window of Spot X Lodge. Prior to the raft trip I spent a few days scoping out new water near Spot X Lodge.

Prior to this was 3 days sea fishing in which myself and friends Kevin, Sam, Johan, and Tim won the Tauranga Charter boat tournament – due to a few good yellowtail kingfish of 45 pounds plus. On the first day we landed 10 good kingfish off the Alderman Islands.

Andrew Christmas says the Tongariro is fishing well on cicada – as I havn’t fished it for a few weeks I will take his word for it and look forward to a day on there in the next few days.

Went raft fishing yesterday on our 4 pound pack rafts. These rafts blow up in a couple of minutes and allow you to get to water you can’t normally get to but yesterday we just used them to cover a lot of water quickly with hardly any walking. We even caught from the raft while drifting – easy fishing! The fish in this part of river 2 are generally smaller we counted anything above a pound, and the biggest was around 3 pounds although you do get them bigger of course around 2 pounds would be average. I only hooked 8 and Ross 17 – tinny barstard! We didn’t fish hard probably only for a couple of hours each all up, it was really a rafting exploratory mission.