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 at River Birches we headed to a new spot where Ken hooked and landed another 4 and Carlee hooked but unfortunately lost another 2 completely unaided making the 7 hooked and 5 landed between the two for the morning.

Tongariro Report

Barometer: No Change

Cloud/Wind: Windy and cold with snow down to low level on Pihanga

Flow: 43 Cumes

Water Temperature:

River Conditions: Clear green

Recommended Flies: Sawyers Pheasant Tail and size 16 Salmon egg and flame glowbugs.