Archive for December, 2007
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
Christmas Day Guiding Scott Spaulding
Picked up Scott from Lake Taupo Lodge this morning and headed to a back-country river near Taupo. After a few minutes of casting tuition Scott hooked and landed his first ever New Zealand trout on a dry fly. This was followed soon after by another - both around 3.5 pounds. Over the course of the [...]
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Monday, December 24th, 2007
Guiding Nigel And Karen Pilling From South Africa
Another great day out guiding today, this time with the Pillings from South Africa in River 4. After staying at Spot X Lodge, I picked the Pillings up early and we headed out. The Pillings managed to land 6 out of 16 hooked - quite a reasonable landing ratio for this river believe it [...]
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Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
Fly Tying
Stayed at Home most of the tying dry fly’s as it is that time of the year and I have little faith left in the strength and floatability of the brought ones. Went for a brief dry fly flick on the Tongariro and missed one take and landed the smallest fish that could possibly [...]
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
Exploring New Beats With Mike Burgin Out Of Taupo
Went exploring today with Mike Burgin. Mike showed me a few access points of his near Taupo, I will show him mine later - access points that is! Increased our tally on one river to 5 access points from 1 giving far more scope if their is other fishermen in the top beat. Finised [...]
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
Some Joy For Chad And Brendas New Zealand Holiday
Guided Chad and Brenda today from Oregon. Picked up Chad and Brenda this morning from the 5 star River Birches Lodge as the rain continued to pour in much the same manner it had overnight and for the rest of Chad and Brendas New Zealand holiday. The weary couple from Oregon had arrived in [...]
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Exploring New Water
Drove for a considerable amount of time and found several other rivers to explore, but the one that my anonymous friend wished to explore turned up trumps. Though we only landed 2 each due to the difficulty of the fishing, the fish numbers were incredible. I would guess we encountered around 30 - 40 [...]
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Sunday, December 16th, 2007
Boat Fishing On Lake Taupo
Went out on Lake Taupo with my friends today to take the boat for a run. After traveling up to the western bays and Waihaha, we found very little action with Johan catching a couple of small ones stripping smelt flies. There did not appear to be trout or smelt in any of the [...]
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
Day 5 Guiding The Weights From Australia
Fishing Diary
Another great day for the Weights. I gave the guys a few options and it was decided to attempt to get a trophy despite the possibility of not hooking a fish all day. In the end 5 nice rainbows were hooked and 4 landed weighing 6.33, 6, 5.75 and 4.25 pounds. The high point [...]
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
Day 4 Guiding The Weights From Australia
Fishing Diary
A great day today for the Weights from Australia. With both James and Chris’s skill levels now reaching a pretty handy level. The day got off to a slow start with both Chris and James loosing a couple including Chris loosing a rainbow over 8 pounds and quite possibly a trophy over 10 pounds. [...]
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
Great Day 3 For The Weights From Ausie
Despite a lot of walking getting in the morning to get to a wilderness beat, the guys actually ended up with quite a bit of fishing time and thanks to their fast improving skills managed to land 2 out of 9 hooked which included hooking several rainbows sight fished on dry fly averaging around [...]