Archive for February, 2007
Monday, February 26th, 2007
Snapper charter in the Bay Of Islands a success
Did my second charter for the Northpower fishing competition over the weekend back up North near the Bay Of Islands where I am originally from. Started out at th Rimuriki Islands for an evening fish in Mike Burgins close spot after an unsuccessful try on Tom McCauleys reef off sugar loaf. Burleyed hard and soon [...]
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Monday, February 26th, 2007
A reasonable day for the Georges from Chile
Picked up two clients on the 21st from River Birches a 5 star fishing lodge in Turangi and took them to river 1. Had a good walk at the beginning and the end to get to this spot but thought it was necassary given the pressure the rest of the water has been recieving [...]
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Bruce & Lindsay Rutter from Melbourne Australia
I very nice day out with great weather on river 4 yesterday. It was Bruce & Lindsay’s first day ever fly fly fishing and they did well. After a frustrating start for Bruce with his first one busting him off and a nervous early strike on a dry - got a bit of a fright [...]
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Sunday, February 18th, 2007
Jigging a little slow today for me and friend Mike Burgin and his daugter
Not my favorite way of fishing for trout but it does have its moments - not today though. I prefer the more active form of catching trout i.e. fly fishing but a lot of people do find it relaxing out in the boat on lake Taupo jigging for trout so it is important for me [...]
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Sunday, February 18th, 2007
Great weather and fishing for Eric Sepi from up state New York
Just finished 3 days guiding with Eric Seppi from New York. Great 3 days, apart from the fishing we shared a similar sence of humour, music, and ideas so had a great time on the river - well I did anyway. Stayed out at “Spot X” from my New Zealand Fishing Lodges page and had [...]
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Eddie and Barbara Leyland
Another great day on river with Eddie and Barbara Leyland from Derbyshire in England. 14 hooked 1 which was sighted and the rest blind. PT’s were the main fly but my own tie hot orange ribbed gold bead nymph also took quite a few. Mainly rainbows in the 2 - 3 pound range with a [...]
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
Nice day out for the Binges from South Africa
A beatiful day out on beat 2 river 4 today resulted in some splendid fishing for this family with around a dozen or more hookups and a few other missed takes on dries with fish ranging from 1 pound to 4 and a half pounds in general. 2 browns were in the 4 to 4 [...]
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Sunday, February 11th, 2007
Great day for Martin Bland from Leeds
Guided Martin Bland on river 1 today, had a fantastic day with Martin hooking 6 good Rainbows between 4 and 5 pounds for his first ever day fly fishing! Had a bit of a run of bad luck for a while losing the 1st 5 fish particularly when the 5th one only got off due [...]
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Friday, February 9th, 2007
Taupo Fly Fishing Diary - Fly Fishing New Zealand Guide
Hello to anyone that reads this. A while ago an American client gave me a couple of suggestions that he thought would benefit my site and its readers/users and inherently my potential customers. It was not by any means a lack of fish or fish size that prompted this, just that they would have liked [...]