Archive for June, 2008
Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Good Day After Slow Start For Roman And Mark Kostrubiak
Mark who has only ever done a little fly fishing before learnt in the first pool this morning how quick and powerful New Zealand’s Rainbow Trout are with an early bust off. Shortly after managed this his first New Zealand trout and also probably his biggest - which he did beat later on. It [...]
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Tongariro Still Fishing Hard
Have been out nearly every day for an hour or on the Tongariro pracising spey casting and not seeing very many fish caught. There are a few around of course and I should imagine that numbers will be increasing at the delta. There should be a reasonable run up all rivers with the next [...]
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
Tongariro Fishing Hard
Went for a brief flick in the Hydro pool of the Tongariro this afternoon and had no luck - though I only fished from one position for half an hour. Normally I do pick up a few fish there. Talking to a few others and the fishing has been very tough on the Taupo [...]
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
Cracker Last Day For Phil And Darren
Had a fantastic last day with Phil Norman and Darren Bell today thankfully as I was a little worried after the flooded rivers yesterday. The river was still up and dirty but the trout were on the feed. Phil started of by site fishing a nice brown before getting bust off big time by [...]
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Sunday, June 8th, 2008
Hard Days Fishing For Philip Norman And Darren Bell After Flood
After a heavy downpour of rain in the middle of the night we woke to the back country rivers in our area being flooded. Moving to plan B we went over to fish the Tongariro and other Taupo tributaries where Darren managed to land a Rainbow Trout of around 2.5 pounds and Phil lost [...]
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Personal Bests For Aussies Philip Norman And Darren Bell
Coming on winter the back country fishing is certainly a little slower than normal but the day went pretty well. Phil landed his best ever rainbow early in the morning of 7.5lbs and Darren managed a beauty brown of 6lbs after a fantastic fight that took him down river 100 metres. In the end the [...]
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Phillip Norman the Brisbane Fishing Machine Is Back At Spot X
Phillip Norman and friend Darren arrived back today and proceeded to empty New Zealand of fish starting with our sacred north island waters hooking 16 fish and losing how many we do not know. We have suggested fishing other countries but alas they refused, saying that they will be back tomorrow and whenever they [...]
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
Hunting With My Mates
This is the first post for a week as I have been changing web hosting for my site and would have lost any updates. Briefly the last week has consistied of fly fishing, duck shooting, and deer stalking today. My mate Ross Wilson who works for Northpower and myself were dragged out of bed [...]