Archive for April, 2008
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Guiding John & John From Colorado
A good day out back-country fishing despite some patchy weather for the Johns from USA. The guys managed to land around half of the 14 decent sized trout caught. The guys I think were both shocked by the power of our trout that had the bust off on 6 and 8 pound flourocarbon on [...]
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
Back Country Fly Fishing
Went fly fishing myself yesterday again and had a great day though the fishing was a little slow. It actually took me until the end of the day before my timing was starting to feel smooth again with my casting. Hooked 12 and landed most of them although one rainbow trout did me in a [...]
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Great Day Back Country Fly Fishing Myself
Have a couple of days before my next guiding job so finally getting a chance to catch up on a bit of fly tying and a bit of fly fishing. Went out back country and managed around 15 - 20 hookups in about 4 or 5 hours and caught some great fish - 3 or [...]
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
Guiding Dan Enniss From Salt Lake City
It was a pleasure to guide Dan Ennis from Salt Lake City again yesterday. This time he was joined by his friend Ross McConnon from Taupo and the pair had a great time - probably even bettering Dan’s last day fishing with me last year. Dan managed this superb rainbow of 7 and a [...]
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Fishing With Blair Alibastair And Fly Tying
Went fishing briefly this afternoon with my mate Blair and landed one small trout, lost one a missed a couple of others - Blair finished much similar. The weather has been bad so I have just being sitting at home for the past few days tying flies ready for the year ahead.
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Game Fishing In New Plymouth
Just got back from Game fishing on my new Boat accross with Steven Rowe in New Plymouth. Looks like I missed the peak of the marlin but we still had one strike on a skip bait and Isy lost a small tuna to something big that could have been a marlin or a shark. [...]
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Another Wild Wilderness Rainbow Trophy Trout For Carl Sawyer
Went fishing with my mate Carl Sawyer again today and he landed his second wild wilderness river rainbow for the summer at just over 10 pounds. I lost my chance on another trophy and had a consilation prize of an 8 pounder. We landed a few others a litlle smaller and lost a few [...]
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Day Three Guiding The Wartons From Australia
After arriving at the first farm yesterday morning to find the race that I drive though blocked by cattle I switched beats and went to another farm nearby which unfortunately is closer to a public access point. The day was slowest for the Wartons who still had a great time with Marge landing a [...]
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
Day 2 Guiding The Wartons From Australia Back Country Fishing
A terrific day for the Wartons today with 8 out of 11 trout hooked landed. Bruce kicked off with 3 nice browns ranging from 4 and quarter to 5 and a half pounds and then Marge followed up with 2 nice rainbows and a brown. In the end a couple of spectacularly hard fighting [...]
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Guiding Bruce And Marj Warton From Australia Out Of Spot X Lodge
Guided Bruce and Marj Warton today from Australia and didn’t have to go far from Spot X to catch a few nice trout. Bruce and Marj class themselves as novices but did well today landing 5 out of 9 good trout hooked plus a few little ones that I don’t count. In all a [...]