Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Rivers Flooded
After heavy rain, the rivers are all flooded again. This is probably one of the most consistently bad spells of weather I can remember but fortunately it has only cost one days guiding so far. The Tongariro and Tauranga-Taupo rivers are both flooded as well as everthing in between and the back-country rivers. One [...]
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Taupo Trout Size Appears To Be Improving!
Was given and extract from an article in issue 56 of the Target Taupo magazine by DOC from Didymo Dave. It offers a good reason as to the small trout size of last year and early this year though it seems to me that things on the improve. Have already had as many over [...]
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Fishing The Tauranga-Taupo River
.53 -.52. Fished the Tauranga-Taupo river today and did OK hooking 17 and landing around half of these - fished from around 10:30am to 3pm. Most of the fish were in excellent condition and there may have been three that broached 4 pounds of which I lost 2. It seems to me that the [...]
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Sunday, July 27th, 2008
Fishing The Tongariro
Went fishing this afternoon looking for new lyes on the Tongariro and was introduced to a couple from a friend. Also found a couple of others by noticing the regular hookup rate of a couple of other fishermen. At this time of the year when there are other fishermen around you don’t necassarily need [...]
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Guiding The Tongariro
Guided a group of Australians on the Tongariro today and though the water was above 60 cumecs did fairly well hooking 9 or 10 fish. It was more of an exploratory mission for the group learning the river for there up coming week.
Tongariro Report
Barometer: No Change
Cloud/Wind: Windy from north
Water Temperature:
River Conditions: High and [...]
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Guiding Tetsuya Tananka Day 4 Tongariro And Tauranga-Taupo Rivers
Guided Tetsuya Tanaka from Japan on his final day of his 3 day fly fishing excursion to New Zealand. Again the weather was not fantastic but in the end we finally managed to crack a pretty good days fishing for Tet. First in the morning we went up the TT at just under .7 [...]
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
Guiding Tetsuya Tenaka On The Tongariro - Day 2
Unfortunately no photos of Tetsuya with any trout (Masu) today as the 4 that he hooked all managed to get off! This is not unusual and it was a credit to his fishing ability and patience today that he hooked so many given the extremely challenging conditions. Apart from most of the Taupo [...]
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Guiding Tetsuya Tanaka From Japan Day 1
Conditions were a little tough today after a 220 cumec fresh through the Tongariro last night most other Lake Taupo tributaries being flooded this morning. We managed to find a little space on the Hinemaia river and Tetsuya was able to bring to the shore his first New Zealand trout. From there we [...]
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Saturday, July 19th, 2008
Guiding Doug Cowper On The Tongariro River
Picked up Doug Cowper this morning from Turangi’s 5 star River Birches Lodge for his first ever attempt at fly fishing. I took him to a small lye formed by the flood last week and it was only a short lesson on casting and mending before Doug was into his first ever trout on [...]
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Testing The Tongariro
Went out this morning for a few hours of exploration on the Tongariro. Though I have lived here for a few years and obviously guide and fish the Tongariro a lot, things are constantly changing. At the moment the town area seems to be fishing better than other parts of the river which is [...]