Archive for April, 2007
Friday, April 27th, 2007
May have located some of the missing trout
Went for a reccy today and found river 4 beats 4 and 5 holding good numbers of both browns and rainbows. Hooked 10 in under 2 hours of fishing so nothing spectacular but only briefly flicked though a few pools so as not to wreck the water for a guiding on Sunday. Saw numerous other [...]
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Friday, April 27th, 2007
Still trying to find river 3’s fish
Still struggling on river 3, tried the lowest beat on it yesterday and it was extremely slow although some local reports say improving, pressure is dieing off. Also tried the bottom of beat 8 on river 4 which had a lot of small ones but we also had a half dozen reasonable fish over 2 [...]
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
Slowish day river 3 beats 2 and 5
Still struggling away in river 3 at the moment which I havn’t been on enough lately to know where the fish are holding. Hooked 6 landing 5 of which 3 were small ones under 2 pounds n a quick half hour fish in section 2 and the other 3 consisted of one rainbow around 3 [...]
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
Testing trout for Ian MacIndoe from Australia
It was Ians first day ever fly fishing for trout and he chose New Zealand as the spot. It was great weather and the days started well fishing beats 1 and 2 on river 5. Ian landed a nice 3 and a half pound rainbow jack out of the first pool on a size 10 [...]
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Saturday, April 21st, 2007
Exploring new private access water
Went exploring some new water yesterday with Charlie from Spot X through a private farm. We caught a few smaller ones and a couple of OK ones but the fishing was a little tough - may be better early or late season. What was interesting was the fish were still keen to take dries (very [...]
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
OK at O
Conditions finally back to normal around the place, with the ew Kayak course finally completed between O and Rotoaira. O canel fishing OK but not great yesterday. Myself and fellow guide Steven Rowe when for a fish for a few hours and managed a few mainly smaller though Steven did manage one at 6 and [...]
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Friday, April 13th, 2007
Good fishing for the Ohms from Idaho
Picked Chris and David Ohms up this morning from Tussock Lodge holiday home in Turangi for a days fishing - the day was looking ominous with rain overnight and strong winds forecast. After picking up our licenses while I debated the benificial use of the computer flows versus telephone river flow reports with my mate [...]
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Friday, April 13th, 2007
Hard last day for Cambells
Was a tough last day on river 3 beat 2 for the Cambells hooking 3 good rainbows but bringing none to the net. One fish around 5 pounds got off a foot from the net while another bigger one got off down the bottom of the pool down the rapids out on the backing. The [...]
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Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
Good day for Campbells today
Fished an easier going river today to give the Cambells legs a break from heavy wading and unfortunately Denease had to take son Ben to the Doctor for a persistant stomach complaint the poor lad had been suffering with for a few days so it was left to John and Lindsay to do the fishing [...]
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Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
The Campbell family of 4 from New Mexico
Slow day beat 4 river 3. A relatively slowish first day for the Campbell family from New Mexico staying at Spot X. The day started well with daughter Lindsay catching a nice 2 and a half pound rainbow at the head of the first pool then slowed right down. In the end we hooked 4 [...]