Archive for September, 2007
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Ross Wilson slays on Tongariro
Took my mate Ross Wilson from Northpower fishing today on the Tongariro. It is Ross’s 6th go at fly fishing and he is starting to get the hang of it. By that I mean I had to tell him to shorten up his cast so he could obtain a controllable drift through the hot spot [...]
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Saturday, September 29th, 2007
Fishing new spots with Mike Burgin
Went fishing a few spots with Mike Burgin and Ross Wilson today. Caught a lot of smaller fish and Ross lost his first ever potential trophy rainbow that took the size 18 pheasant tail and just didn’t stop its deep run.
Tongariro Report
Barometer: Falling
Cloud/Wind:
Water Temperature:
River Conditions: Low and clear
Recommended Flies: Sawyers Pheasant tail, hare [...]
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
Fishing with Mike Burgin
Went fishing today with Mike Burgin to some of his secret guiding spots. We had a great day though the fishing wasn’t as hot as Mike had experienced yesterday in the same area. This photo is of a nice 6 pound brown trout which I landed on a sawyers pheasant tail. Mike landed a nice [...]
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Guiding the Patersons day 4
22CMGB. Guided the Patersons again today on the Tauranga-Taupo river and had 15 hook and plays plus one dink which James was counting but I wasn’t. The guys had a great day in good conditions and were both fishing very well unassisted by the end of the day while their guide had a snooze. [...]
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Another great day on Tongariro for the Patersons from Australia
Guided the Patersons from Australia again today and had another great day with 18 hookups which included one on the evening rise. James wants me to note that he did outfish his father today, 17 to 2, but Bill wants to say it was all down to him giving James the good spots - [...]
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Good variation for Bill and James Paterson today on Tongariro
Fished different areas of the Tongariro will Bill and James. Spent time working on casting and sight fishing. Bill and James each landed 3 nice rainbow trout of which 1 each was on dry fly. We had around another half dozen missed takes on dry, and James dropped 2 others after short fights nymphing. A [...]
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Monday, September 24th, 2007
Great day guiding the Patersons from New South Wales
Started early this morning guiding Bill and James Paterson today from Australia on the Tongariro. Had great day, the guys had done a little fly fishing before but were yet to catch the first trout on fly until this morning that is! Bill kicked off with a nice fresh rainbow and then son James followed [...]
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Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
Unsuccessful jigging on Lake Taupo
Went Jigging this afternoon with Gordon a friend of mine from Tokaanu and caught nothing but fresh air. Its getting to that time of year and rumour has it that the fish have been starting to get caught jigging but my guess would be the that it is still probably pretty patchy and you will [...]
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Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
Exploring new fly fishing water around Taupo
Went exploring some new water with Mike Burgin today half an hour from Taupo. We hooked 3 smallish fish but couldn’t really get upstream or downstream so had to give up and write that spot off though there are a couple of other access points to explore and we did collect a couple of farmers [...]
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Fishing the Tongariro with Mike Burgin
Fished the Tongariro with Mike Burgin today and had a good days fishing. We eached pulled several out nymphing early in the day and then Mike landed one out of 8 takes we had on dry fly in the afternoon in a secret location not to be mentioned - but pictured here is Mike with [...]