Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
TT And Tongariro Starting To Hot Up A Bit
Went for an exploritory mission on the Tauranga-Taupo river this morning and met a good fulla up there (Nick from Palmerston North) whom I fished with for a few hours. Nick and landed a few in the morning and like me was interested in testing the waters not often touched by other people. Beween [...]
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Good 1st Days Fly Fishing For Gareth And Caroline Dent
Picked up Gareth and Caroline Dent from the 5 star River Birches Lodge in Turangi today for their first ever days fly fishing. Took them up the Tauranga-Taupo River near Turangi and shortly before lunch Gareth managed to hook and land his first ever trout and first fish caught fly fishing. Not long [...]
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Nashua Mobile Group Day 2 And Edwin Succeeds Big
Day 2 for the Nashua Mobile Corporate Group booking staying at Tongariro Lodge. The guys decided to stay on and fish 1 more morning but unfortunately could only get 7 seats on the plane so 5 of the others had to leave the evening before as planned.
I was already booked for another Job out [...]
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Guiding Nashua Mobile Corporate Group From South Africa
It was a nice day on the river with over 40 trout hooked between the group and amongst the 4 guides for the day - not a huge score overall but not bad either. My group consisting of Mike, Edwin and Philip with mixed results with 3 landed from 8 hooked which was [...]
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
Plane Cancelled For Nashua Mobile Group From South Africa
Went to the airport this morning to pick up the corporate group of 12 South African rugby supporters here to watch the Tri-nations test match in Dunedin on Saturday to find their plane cancelled due to fog. The guys eventually arrived later by bus but did miss the afternoons fishing so I am hoping [...]
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
All Rivers Flooded And Rising Further
It’s 7am and I am meant to be picking up Stuart and Kelly McKinnon from the 5 star River Birches Lodge in Turangi for a days guided fly fishing on the Tongariro but the rivers have come up in a flood over night with the Tongariro already above 120 cumecs and rising. This is [...]
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Testing The Water Up The Tauranga-Taupo River
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 [...]
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
Blowing A Gale In Turangi
Sitting down in my friends fly shop accross the road from home today tying flies for the months ahead. It is freezing cold and very windy blowing from the South. Would recommend staying home by the fire today instead of fishing!
Tongariro Report
Courtesy of Marcel at Riverway General Store And Outfitters Phone +64 7 3860501
Barometer: [...]
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
Fly Fishing In The Snow For The Hills From Whangarei
After heavy rain and hail in the night it was surprising to wake up and find any rivers actually fishable this morning but fortunately the good old Tongariro was at a fishable level though pretty much nowhere else was. Driving to meet the Hills from Whangarei staying at Creel Lodge in Turangi for the [...]
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
Guiding Peter, Mark, And Brian Hill On The Tongariro River
Picked up Peter Hill and his two sons Mark, and Brian this morning hoping for a repeat of last years highly successful guiding trip. The fishing has been tough of a late but the guys still managed a great day hooking into a dozen nice fish including this one of Marks and a good Brown [...]