Archive for January, 2008
Monday, January 28th, 2008
Fly Fishing With Carl Sawyer
Went chasing some of the New Zealands Central North Island trout today and had a great day out with my mate Carl Sawyer pictured here with a 7 lb he landed. I landed a bigger one of 8.75 lb that was an absolute cracker of a fish but unfortunately the photos did turn out. [...]
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
Campout Exploration Trip With My Mates
Overnighted out in the bush last night with my mates Ross, and Johan - after walking into a river that we have fished before but wished to explore further. Took the rifle in as well but saw no deer. Had great fishing the biggest a 6 pound brown trout which was 1 of 3 [...]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Guiding Barry Markham From England Back Country Fly Fishing
Guided Barry from England today on River 4 beats 3 and 4. Barry was a very modest fisherman and was a far greater caster than what he had told me. I don’t have a photo here because he let the best fish of the day - a 2.5 pound brownie go. Barry [...]
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
Back Country Dry Fly Fishing
Went fishing myself again today trying to find trophies and ended up being bust off by a 5 pounder in the first pool in the exact same manner as the other day. It ran up between the same two rocks. Landed a 6 pounder and a 5 on dry fly to make 3 hookups for [...]
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
The One That Didn’t Get Away
Went trophy hunting today and managed to land only one fish out of 6 hooked. This one here is around the 8 pound mark and took a Royal Wulfe. Lost one nice brown around similar size and several smaller rainbows. Saw a couple of other good ones.
Tongariro Report
Barometer:
Cloud/Wind:
Water Temperature:
River Conditions: Low and [...]
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Guiding Alaskan Fly Fishing Guide Jeff From USA Dry Fly Fishing In New Zealand’s Back Country
Guided Jeff from the USA today, a young 20 year old fly fishing guide who works in Alaska and up state New York. Had a fantastic day but covered some serious miles on foot. Jeff was a fantastic fisherman and a piece of cake to guide - though our New Zealand trout gave [...]
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Guiding Jeff Jeffery From England On Tongariro
Picked up Jeff Jeffery this morning for his first attempt at fly fishing in New Zealand and his first attempt at fly fishing for several years since a couple of tries with friends back home in England years ago - he actually fished the famous Test (not sure of spelling) on his first ever day [...]
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Exploring New Fly Fishing Water
Spent the past view days roaming the Taupo area and beyond looking at new water with my friend and fellow guide Mike Burgin. We also did a bit of dry fly sight fishing in another river that we fish a bit and were quite disgusted to see the rubbish lying around from recent [...]
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Fishing Locally With Mike Burgin
Went for a bit of a fish today with Mike Burgin at a local lake. We each managed 3 small ones around 2 pounds. There were quite a few moving around and conditions seemed pretty good.
Tongariro Report
Barometer: Low
Cloud/Wind: Overcast with some rain
Water Temperature:
River Conditions: A little high in the Tongariro today but fishable
Recommended [...]
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
Guiding E-Wan, Santiago, Alihandro, Monica, And George From Columbia On The Tongariro
Guided E-Wan, Santiago, Alihandro, Monica, and George from Columbia this afternoon on the Tongariro and had a successful afternoon. The guys and girl all landed a rainbow trout each with 8 being landed in total out of around 30 hookups between the family of 5. Nothing was coming up to take dries despite a [...]