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 - 5 of which were on the wet line. Allan also landed another which was foul hooked hence I didn’t count it and there were a couple of others hooked as I demonstrated as well which weren’t counted in the tally. So all in all the fishing was quite reasonable considering we probably didn’t start until somewhere between 9 and 10, and the Tongariro was still above 40 cumecs all day.

Tongariro Report

Barometer: Rishing

Cloud/Wind: A bit of wind making casting a little difficult at times

Flow: 43 cumecs

Water Temperature:

River Conditions: Green

Recommended Flies: Sawyers Pheasant Tail and Hare & Copper.