Went for a brief fish up the Tauranga-Taupo River this morning. A few people were catching trout with a couple of people catching a half dozen or so. The lyes that I normally fish wern’t holding many and I narrowly missed blanking with a late catch of one trout. Later on I fished the Hydro pool in strong winds and landed a nice rainbow of 3 pounds before giving in to the conditions. I have heard of some people having some reasonable good success i.e. have heard of 18 hookups and 16 hookups in the mid to low river area. The numbers are definitely increasing but still far below peak.

Tongariro Report

Courtesy of Marcel at Riverway General Store And Outfitters Phone +64 7 3860501

Barometer: 1009.5hPa

Cloud/Wind: Very windy from South

Water Temperature:

River Conditions: Green and clearing

Recommended Flies: Champagne & flame glow bug and Sawyers Pheasant tails.