Archive for August, 2008
Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Guiding Ian Muntz, Jeff and Peter on the Tongariro
Guided Ian, Jeff, and Peter from Melbourne today on the mighty Tongariro and though the main emphasis was to learn single handed spey casting, the guys still managed a few good trout as well. I spent the morning teaching the guys the single handed versions of double spey and snap T and for the [...]
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Fishing The Tauranga Taupo With South Island Fly Fishing Guide Chappie Chapman
Went fishing today up the Tauranga Taupo with my good friend and colleauge from the South Island Chappie Chapman. We had a great day starting relatively late and getting back early and still hooking 13 nice rainbow trout beween us. The flow was still a little high so the fishing was pretty [...]
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Guiding Warren And James Walker On The Tongariro
Picked up Warren and James Walker from Turangi’s 5 star River Birches today for their first attempt at fly fishing in New Zealand. We were meant to go yesterday but a flood in the river meant fishing was delayed for a day. The guys managed a good morning landing 3 out 4 hooked. The [...]
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Guiding Roger King On The Tauranga-Taupo River
Guided Roger King today and conditions were pretty much perfect. Had a reasonably successful day with Roger landing 10 out of 13 hooked. There didn’t seem to be as many trout around as this time last year but the fishing was still OK with most people we came across having caught a [...]
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Fishing With Johan Kok
Went for a brief fish up the Tauranga-Taupo river this afternoon with my friend Johan Kok and Johan managed two while I managed 1. Saw 4 others caught but certainly appeared to be slow up there. Most reports from the Tongariro are for fairly average fishing at the moment as well. [...]
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
Guiding Ken & Carlee Paterson On The Tongariro River
Picked up Ken and Carlee Paterson this morning from Turangi’s 5 star River Birches Lodge for their first ever attempt at fly fishing. Being a Saturday morning we did a couple of hours before breakfast where Ken managed to hook and land his first trout on fly. After a quick breakfast and coffee back [...]
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Guiding Gerry Foster And Chris Poynter On The Tongariro
Picked up Gerry Foster and Chris Poynter this morning from Turangi’s 5 star River Birches Lodge for their first attempt ever at fly fishing. Conditions were OK and Gerry soon hooked and landed her first trout shortly followed by Chris. In the end between them they landed 5 out of 5 which was pretty [...]
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
TT Full Of Fish-ermen
Went for a walk up the TT this morning to see how things have been affected in the lower areas since the last flood. Never touched a fish myself but mainly walked rather than fished. Eventually came across another fisherman from Wellington who had caught a few - a landed a couple while [...]
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
Guiding Allan Cliffe And Schalk On The Tongariro
Guided Allan Cliffe and Schalk today on the Tongariro. Both were experienced fly fishermen and Allan was an experienced Tongariro fishermen which made life easy for me - and learnt another good wet lining trick from Allan also. The guys managed to land some good fish amongst the 8 landed from 15 hooked - [...]
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Guiding Peter And Anne From Mahia On The Tongariro
Picked up Peter and Anne from Riverway General Store And Outfitters this afternoon for a few hours fly fishing the Tongairo. Peter claimed to have very little experience at fly fishing but soon prooved he was very modest about his “fishing” experience, never once getting in a tangle. There were a huge number of [...]