Archive for February, 2008
Saturday, February 9th, 2008
Corporate Guided Fishing For Group From Tandberg
Having another engagement that I couldn’t miss I was unable to be there to assist in the guiding of the Group from Tandberg consisting of 7 learner fisherman. Fortunately my second in command Mike Burgin and the two other guides for the day Chris and Marcel did a great a job and managed to [...]
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Guiding Jim Bruner & Robert Battle Back Country
R3B3. Great day out back for Americans Jim & Robert who were staying at Creel Lodge in Turangi. 7 out of 14 hooked were landed with 5 of this going over 5 pounds including this nice rainbow here with Jim. Robert landed the biggest Rainbow trout at 5 and a half pounds in Jim [...]
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Guiding John Fitzgerald From Houston Texas
R3B3. Another great day today this time For John Fiztgerald from Houston. John has plenty of fly fishing experience and had no trouble in hooking 15 nice North Island trout today of which around 12 were in the 3 to 5 pound range. John managed 2 sight fished browns on dry fly of which [...]
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Guiding Sharon From China On Tongariro
Guided Sharon today who managed to avoid being stuck in China with the current bad weather and flew to New Zealand. It was Sharon’s first ever day doing any fishing of any sort at all and she did superbly. Sharon managed to hook 7 and did very well landing 5 of these. We finished [...]
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Game Fishing Yesterday With Steven Rowe In New Plymouth
Towed the boat across to New Plymouth and went game fishing with Steven Rowe Yesterday as a few Striped Marlin had been caught out off their in the weekend. We actually had one small fish take which Steve thought was a marlin. We landed several large Albacore tuna up to 20 pounds.
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Back Country Fishing In The Taranaki Region With Fellow Guide And Friend Steven Rowe
Went fishing in a secret little back-country stream of Steven Rowes not far from New Plymouth yesterday and was astounded by the number of good sized browns we saw in such a short stretch of water. We caught a few - mainly sight fished on dry fly - and had several other refusals. The [...]