Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 31st, 2007
Never trust the weather forecast
Fished locally yesterday and hooked 4 landing 1 in some newish water to me. Quite enjoyed the fishing. The conditions are low and clear and was able to site fish to the fish. The weather forecast predicted bad weather all week but the weather has been OK and we have had hardly any rain other [...]
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Too windy for me on Tongariro today
Went for a brief flick on the Tongariro as usual today but found it basically windy and unpleasant so went home to tie flies ready for the busy summer ahead.
Tongariro Report
Barometer: Dropped further from yesterday but appears stable and low at the moment
Cloud/Wind: Very little rain so far though a lot expected, not too cold [...]
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
Guiding Brian and Dave from England on the Tongariro
Guided Brian and Dave on the Tongariro this morning. Dave has done plenty fly fishing for trout back home in England but it was Brians first go with a fly rod. By the end of the morning the guys had hooked into 11 rainbow trout, landing around half of these and were pretty stoked! After [...]
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Guided fly fishing for Jeff, Jim, and Chris from Auckland
Guided Jeff, Jim, and Chris from Auckland today R4B8F28Green/14fbpt. The guys hooked 11 and landed 4 including 1st ever browns for Chris and Jim. Jim also lost one good brown estimated at around 7 pounds. Broke my Sage SLT for the 3rd time since last October - but still had an enjoyable day guiding [...]
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
Fishing with Taupo Fishing Guide Marcel Ryder from Fine Fishing
Fishing Diary
Went fishing yesterday with my mate Marcel (a Taupo Fishing Guide) and had a pleasant afternoon until the wind got up.
Marcel landed one smallish trout and I landed 1 as well. Met up with TALTAC
friend Peter Grange who caught a few during the day. It certainly wasn’t a slay
day but there were plenty of [...]
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
Fishing the Tongariro with TALTAC friend
Fished the Tongariro yesterday with my mate from TALTAC Peter Grange. We were down lower river and each hooked a few and landed a few with Peter landing one OK fish on the wet line. In general though, pretty much everyone now realizes that the average size this year is probably just under 3 pounds [...]
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Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Guiding Lynn and Neville from Wellington
Guided Lynn and Neville this morning on the Tongariro and had a pretty successful morning. Lynn and Neville own a holiday home here in Turangi (NZ$100/night if anyone is interested) and have done a little fly fishing before but not a lot, and this morning they both got off the mark each with their first [...]
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Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Only if you have a sence of humour!
Stayed home and caught up on paperwork and emails today and had this arrive from a friend June Duff whom I used to work with selling Real Estate:
A man was fishing.
He began his outing with a 25lb Kingfish on the first drop and a 20 lb
snapper on the second.
On the third drop he had just [...]
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Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Guiding Chris from England on the Tongariro
Guided Chris this morning (working in Wellington for a few years). It was Chris’s first attempt at nymphing and he took to it like a fish to water. The new technique I am trying for getting peoples casting up and going with double hauling from the start seems to be working quite well. Chris managed [...]
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Sunday, August 12th, 2007
Bringing the boat back to Turangi
Havn’t written anything over the past week as I have been away up north near the Bay Of Islands where I am originally from, visiting my mother, doing some sea fishing and sorting out some things with the bach and boat. Took Will the X Club Habitat bar manager from Turangi up North with me [...]