Archive for September, 2008

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

Fishing And Hunting In Turangi

 

 

Been a little slack with the blog lately as have been desperately trying to get a few other things organised before the 1st October when the summer season starts - trying to move my new boat towards survey but have several sets of people to deal with to achieve this. Went fishing this [...]

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Friday, September 19th, 2008

Guiding Nick And Lisa Haring

 

 

Picked up Nick and Lisa this morning from Turangi’s 5 star River Birches Lodge where the pair are enjoying being pampered as part of their honeymoon. Lisa was first to hook up and was unlucky to loose here first two trout but landed a nice one later on in the morning to make [...]

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Sunday, September 14th, 2008

Great Mornings Fishing For Scott Towers On The Tongariro River

 

 

Picked up Scott from Turangi’s 5 Star River Birches Lodge this morning for a second attempt to land a nice Tongariro Trout. I guided Scott and partner Fiona yesterday for the morning also and Scott wanted a chance to the even the score with Fiona who had landed one yesterday while Scotts three [...]

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Saturday, September 13th, 2008

Guiding Fiona And Scott Towers On The Tongariro River In Turangi

Picked up Fiona and Scott Towners this morning from Turangis 5 star River Birches Lodge for a go at Fly Fishing on the Tongario. After yesterday’s flood the water was still a little high but Fiona quickly got the ball rolloing by landing her first ever Rainbow trout of around 3 pounds. Scott [...]

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Sunday, September 7th, 2008

Guiding Marty Sharpe On The Tongariro

 

 

Picked up Marty Sharpe at 7am this morning from Turangi’s 5 star River Birches lodge for his first serious attempt at fly fishing. The fishing wasn’t red hot but was still pretty good with Marty soon hooking and landing a 4 pound Rainbow which after being hooked legally in the mouth mangaged to [...]

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Friday, September 5th, 2008

Fishing With Turangi Friend Damien

 

 

Went fishing yesterday and part of today with a local Turangi friend Damien and had a great afternoon yesterday with around 8 or 9 hookups but a slower afternoon today with 3 hookups for Damien. Fished with the Ausie guys I guided on Sunday this morning and explored a little new water where [...]

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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

Guiding John And Selena Michell From Hong Kong

 

 

Picked up John and Selena this morning from Turangi’s 5 star River Birches Lodge for a day out fly fishing on the Tongariro. Pictured here is Selena with a fantastically conditioned 5 pound Rainbow Jack. Between the husband and wife fishing team, 7 fine Tongariro trout were landed out of 15 hooked including one [...]

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Monday, September 1st, 2008

Guiding Ronald Brown From Colorado

 

 

Guided Ron Brown today and had a good time out back country. The fishing wasn’t fast and furious but was fair for this time of the year with Ron managing to land 5 out of 6 hooked with this fantastic Brown Trout, another Rainbow Trout of around 4.5 pounds and 3 others around [...]

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