Mon 27 Aug 2007
Guiding Brian and Dave from England on the Tongariro
Posted by andrew1 under Guiding, Tongariro Fishing Reports
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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 seeing the guys later in the day in the local supermarket it seemed that had had a fine afternoon celebrating the mornings fishing at the local pub! They had not expected so many after speaking to several people on the river on Saturday who had had none.
Later in the afternoon I went for a cast in the Tongariro’s famous Hydro pool and hooked 4 rainbow trout.
Tongariro Report
Barometer: Dropping and bad weather expected
Cloud/Wind: Overcast with no wind here at present this morning
Water Temperature: Still waiting for my thermotmeter
River Conditions: Low and clear which is fine if you use light fluorocarbon and smaller indictators and flies
Recommended Flies: The fish we caught yesterday were on a mix of glowbugs and hare and copper gold tungsten beaded nymphs in the morning – also a couple on size 16 black bead hare & coppers tied with light grey possum fur – basically my Aoteaphsyce Colonica (grey caddis) representation that I use a lot over summer. In the afternoon at the Hydro I hooked 4 on good old Sawyers Pheasant tails.
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