Archive for May, 2007
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Tongariro Fishing Report
Went out for my first real go on the Tongariro today and by all acounts did fairly well. Hooked 12, mainly borderline legal fish and most on 14BSPT and some on 10GBHC. Saw plenty of fish, in fact I would go so far as to say that the areas I ventured into were pretty much [...]
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Monday, May 28th, 2007
Good day fishing with Charlie from Spot
Fished river 4 beat 5 this morning with Charlie and the first pool which normally sees around 10 hookups only gave us one. The next two lies produced a few hookups and then the big pool above produced several for Charlie at the top - though only one legal one, and several for myself fishing [...]
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Friday, May 25th, 2007
O again today
Spent most of the day fly tying with a brief interlude of an hour or so up at O. Landed three from 2 to 5 pounds, dropped two, and missed at least one other. Conditions were windy but bearable. Still not the fish I would be hoping for at this time of the year. There [...]
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Thursday, May 24th, 2007
Again O not as hot as expected
Again today conditions were looking favourable at O but probably not quite enough rain. It would seem to me that the bigger fish we are chasing never came out of the lake to feed. A few good fish were caught in between quite a lot of smaller ones. Personally I lost 1 around 4 to [...]
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
O not as good as expected
Fished O yesterday after noticing the right conditions developing the previous day with the Courage’s from South Africa. When I arrived just after dawn Kevin Kakahi (a local O expert) had already lost a good one and landed one other small one. The water had already cleared considerable and we ended up catching most on [...]
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Monday, May 21st, 2007
Another good day for the Courage’s from South Africa
Not the same number of trout today for the exhausted Courage’s from SA but still caught some nice fish river 3 beats 2 & 3 in the morning before rain pushed us out. They hooked 9 reasonable fish, 3 landed over 4 pounds, 1 lost 5 pounds +, and one lost that was a potential [...]
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Sunday, May 20th, 2007
Top day with Gavin and Michelle Courage for South Africa
Gavin and Michelle hooked 45 between them today river 4 beat 8. Took 17 from the first pool and were on 29 by lunch. Not too many over 4 pounds but a lot of cracker 3 pound plus rainbows and Michelle managed a few nice browns also. In the end the Courage’s were exhausted from [...]
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Saturday, May 19th, 2007
Fishing with Jeff Bishop
Took my mate’s father Jeff fly fishing today and had a relatively hard day on River 4 beat 9. The river was extremely low and the normal holding areas in riffly water were actually pretty low. Jeff hasn’t fished for 4 years. I caught 2 smallish rainbows of a 2 to 3 pounds, could see [...]
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
Hot fishing For Mark Wickham and Dwain
Hot fishing river 4 beat 5 today. Guided Mark late last season on the Tongariro and had him again today for half a day with his friend and Neighbour Dwain who had never been fly fishing or even picked up a fly rod before. Mark was wanting Tongariro but not having confidence in the Tongariro [...]
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
River 3’s trout starting to show up
Fished 3 hours in river 3 beat 2 today. Caught 12 of excelllent size. Only 1 fish would have been below 3 pounds and the biggest was around 6. They seem to be stacking up in the predictable spots. Noticably since the same time last year some of the small pools and runs have disappeared [...]