Archive for June, 2007
Saturday, June 30th, 2007
Wet-lining with Mathew Smith from Main, USA
Guided Mathew Smith yesterday morning on the Tongariro. Though I am far from an expert at wet-lining (I do a bit but mainly nymph) I had a spot in mind for Mathew who hadn’t fished for 6 years and had a medium sink line with a fast sinking polyleader. We went to the spot and [...]
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Thursday, June 28th, 2007
Tongariro a little slower
After all the rain and bad weather the fish now seem to be spread though the river and the couple I caught yesterday afternoon were darkish fish. I would expect the fishing to move back to pheasant tails and more natural flies over the next few days. There are heaps of fish in the river [...]
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Sunday, June 24th, 2007
Guiding Rick and Cathy from Colorado
Got an afternoon job to guide Rick and Cathy from Colorado. Unfortunately since leaving Australia on their way back to the States they have had two weeks solid bad weather and this afternoon turned out to be no different. After a slowish start in attrocious windy conditions Rick hooked, landed and released a beatiful fat [...]
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Saturday, June 23rd, 2007
Day 3 for Pete Neil and Pete White from Camberra
Day 3 for the Pete’s from Oz today and I decided to mix it up a bit rather than fishing the Tongariro for 3 days in a row. Though I knew the water was going to be high and dirty from the recent rain I deciced to take the guys to river 3 beat 3 [...]
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Friday, June 22nd, 2007
Day 2 guiding the Pete’s from Australia
Started early this morning with a 6:30am pick-up intending a couple of hours on the Tongariro before heading back-country. By around 8:30 the colour of the water was getting pretty strong though Left handed Pete (Pete White) had still managed to hook 5 and land 3 nice rainbows out of slow shallow water on salmon [...]
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Thursday, June 21st, 2007
Right handed Pete and Left handed Pete from Camberra
Picked up the Pete and Pete from River Birches this morning and hit the Tongariro a little after 9. Right handed Pete started great landing a beaty on his second cast and soon followed up with several more. Left handed Pete lost one early on and took a little longer getting used to the heavey [...]
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
Guiding Mel, Mike and Bunty - chapter 2
After a good aftenoons fish yesterday Mel, Mike and Bunty had converted to fisholasism and opted for an early start. We got to the river and parked up reserving ourselves 3 hot lyes and waited for the sun to rise. Mel was first to hook up in what turned out to be a stella day [...]
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Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
3 hours on Tongariro with Mel Mike and Bunty
A late call in the afternoon due to another guide being double booked had me rushing down to a local Tackle shop to pick up Mel Mike and Bunty for a brief excursion on the Tongariro. After a slowish start Bunty got her first - a small brown trout to the shore and Mel [...]
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Monday, June 18th, 2007
Tony Amodio and Janice Corsino from Hawaii
An OK but slightly slowish day on the Tongariro doday for first time fly fishermen Tony and Janice. Tony managed a nice rainbow early on up river and Janice lost one but by the end of the day only one more fish had been hooked and lost. There were plenty of fish there just not [...]
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Saturday, June 16th, 2007
Guiding Captain Nick Sassic from Florida
Guided Captain Nick Sassic from Florida today on river 3 beat 3. Nick had a fantastic day managing to hook 14 and land 7 averaging around 3 pounds. This included a mixed bag of both rainbow and brown trout. This was Nick’s first ever day trout fishing but he took to it like a fish [...]