Archive for October, 2007
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Great day guiding for Mike, good day tying dry’s for me
Fishing Diary
Mike Burgin, Anglers Anonymous other guide, took Simon from Australia on river 13 beat 1 today and had a fantastic day as expected. Simon hooked a mixed bag of around 15 or 16 rainbows and browns and landed about half of these ranging from 2 pounds to 4 pounds. Several were stalked and [...]
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Back country guiding Chris Stoehr from USA
Another great day today guiding Chris who is a fisheries Biologist currently working out of Pago Pago in American Samoa. Chris wanted to chase some of New Zealand browns. Where he comes from 12 inches is a trophy and I assured him we could probably better that here. To be honest the brownies [...]
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
Another day fly fishing in paradise
Fishing Diary
Had a chance to go exploring new water today. Couldn’t get hold of the first two farmers I wanted to speak to for access on one river so went to another river and spoke to farmer I know there. They told me of a couple more access points off their farm. The first one [...]
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
OK fishing river 4 with friends Ross and Yohan
Fishing Diary
Had great fun today fishing with a couple of my mates out back-country. Fished some water I often fished and found it had been fairly well fished by many other anglers today and yesterday. Can’t be helped at public access areas but I still prefer to have the river to myself of course. Ross [...]
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Saturday, October 27th, 2007
Karen, Kate, and Paul from River Birches
Fishing Diary
Picked up Karen, Kate and Paul from River Birches this morning for a couple of hours fishing on the Tongariro. The guys and girls all managed to land at least one nice rainbow trout with Karen landing two and Paul loosing a couple as well. The photo here is with the Managers of River [...]
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
So many trout
All the rivers around Taupo are full of trout at the moment and providing great sport. Went fishing with my mate and fellow guide Mike Burgin this afternoon and hooked around 30 between us in the Tauranga-Taupo river. There were trout visible everywhere you looked.
Later in the evening I had a beer with a [...]
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Guiding Nick from USA on Tongariro
Guiding Nick from the USA today on the Tongariro and had another cracker day. The conditions were fine but windy and the water was clear yet Nick who is quite an experienced fly fisherman managed to land 24 out of 38 hooked including several sighted, stalked, and taken on dry fly. The photo here was [...]
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Great fishing on Tongariro with Mike Burgin
Had a great few hours out testing the Tongariro today with Mike as we both have had a few days local guiding and haven’t been on the Tongariro for a few days. The fishing was awesome. The first pool, which is my normal beginners spot was fishing well and we each quickly hooked 3 [...]
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Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Guiding Murphy’s on the Tauranga-Taupo
.52 - .51. Took the Murphy family from New Zealand out today for their first annual adventure. This was the first ever try at fly fishing for trout and a great day was had. In total 11 nice rainbow trout were landed out of 17 hooked. This is Ben with the nicest of the day [...]
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
Exploring with Mike
Ventured into some new terrain further up a river that Mike Burgin used to guide years ago. The fishing was relativey tough in the gorgey section and we found more fish lower down in the more braided section. Sighting them was pretty tough due to the recent rain but we could still make out [...]