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Tue 4 Mar 2008

Back Country Guiding First Time Fly Fishers From Australia

Posted by andrew1 under Back Country Reports, Guiding
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 2008-03-04
 

Met Jeff, Darryn, Gabriel and Victoria all from New South Wales in Australia this morning, ready for there first ever fly fishing experience. The guys and girls were all fast learners – for Ausies – which helped them enjoy a fantastic day out back country today. In total 7 trout were hooked, all of excellent size with Darryn landing the biggest I have had out of this beat – a 7 pound brown on top of a fantatic 5 pound rainbow! Pictured here is Victoria who only fished for 5 minutes today and this was the result!

 

Tongariro Report

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Cloud/Wind: Strong winds today

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River Conditions: Still a little coloured after the rain the other day

Recommended Flies: Royal Wulfe, black tungsten hare and coppers size 14 – light grey dubbing though rather than hare guard hair

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Mon 3 Mar 2008

Fly Fishing With Carl Sawyer

Posted by andrew1 under Back Country Reports
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Went fishing river 3 waterfall beat today with my mate Carl Sawyer. Walked down the track to find the river dirty brown but we fished a couple of pools anyway. We hooked 6 or 7 including this 6 and a 1/4 pound rainbow that I landed and Carl held for the photo. Lost another good one similar or bigger. The main fly was Novaks Big Black Bug.

 

Tongariro Report

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River Conditions: Low and clear

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Sun 2 Mar 2008

Guiding Chris Skin From Wellingon

Posted by andrew1 under Back Country Reports, Guiding
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 2008-03-02
 

Guided Chris Skin today who works for the English diplomatic service and is hoping to gain residency here. I guided Chris once last year and hopefully didn’t let him down today by guiding him onto 16 feisty trout of which he landed 6 including this nice 5 pound rainbow trout. Conditions were a little windy to begin with which would have cost us a few fish to begin with. We fished river 4 in my usual beat of late.

 

Tongariro Report

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River Conditions: Low and clear

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