Archive for October, 2008
Friday, October 31st, 2008
Guiding Jeff Ballantyne And Mac
Met Mac and Jeff Ballantyne from Australie early this morning for a fly trip out to the back country. It wasn’t long before Jeff hooked into his first New Zealand trout and was met by an angry aggressive rainbow that blew him away in about three seconds. This happend twice more before [...]
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Guiding Lyndon And Judy Forrest Day 4
Guided Lyndon, Judy, and Robyn again for the last day of the wedding anniversary annual fly fishing trip and we certainly had to work for them! I suspect the water temperature was still a little cold at 11C as activity was a little slow. Despite the slow fishing - down to around [...]
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
Guiding Lyndon And Judy Forrest And Robyn From TALTAC Day 3
Went out to a new area today and caught one nice fish before the water strangely discoloured and turned filthy brown. When we left on the way back downstream the water was clear meaning that some event had occurred upstream just before we arrived causing the discolouration. After a quick lunch at Spot [...]
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Sunday, October 12th, 2008
Guiding Regular Clients Lyndon And Judy Forrest Day 2 at Spot X
Guided Lydon Judy and Robyn again today and had a fairly good with still slightly colored water after yesterdays flood. Lyndon started the ball rolling on about his first cast by landing a 3 pound rainbow followed up by Robyn losing a nice 5 pounder. Shortly afterwards Judy who was making me very [...]
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Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Guiding Lyndon And Judy Forrest On The Tongariro River
Guided regular clients Lyndon and Judy Forrest and Robyn from TALTAC today on the Tongariro river. The morning was quite reasonable fishing with at least 6 hook and plays plus a few other possible missed takes and a couple of wriggles. Fortunately for all, Judy was able to land this nice 4 lb [...]
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
Great Fishing For Andrew Mongeon
An early start and it was it wasn’t long before Andrew landed his first of many for the day. The trout averaged around 3 - 4 lbs with a few bigger and a few smaller. We fished several different areas on 2 different rivers and just fished the edges as the water [...]
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Guiding Andrew Mongeon On The Tongariro River
Guided Andrew Mongeon on the Tongariro today. Most options were unavailable due to heavy rain over night and flooding but Andrew still managed to land 3 out of 7 nice rainbow trout hooked for the day.
Fishing Data
Time of recordings
Barometer (hPa)
Tongariro River
Flow (Cumecs)
37
Water Temperature(Degrees Celcius)
Tauranga-Taupo River
Height (meters above reference)
0.75
Water Temperature(Degrees Celcius)
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
Taking Oakura Bay Friends Justin And Ngawai Smith Fly Fishing
Had a great mornings fishing with Justin and Ngawai this morning with too many trout to count! The new fly I tied up similar to another pattern a friend showed me may imitate the Colobriscus mayfly nymphs that were being taking well and for a period of a least half an hour not [...]
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
Day Three For The Good’s From Tauranga And Flooded Rivers
Well, day 3 arrived for the Good’s this morning staying out at Spot X and we were greeted by rain. A quick examination of the flows and last nights rainfall on some nearby major rivers meant changing plans from going to a large river due to safety issues and having a look at [...]
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Saturday, October 4th, 2008
Guiding Glen And Theresa Good Day 2
Guided Glen and Theresa today and had a good day though the fishing was slower than normal. Glen managed a beautifully coloured and conditioned 4 pound brown and Theresa managed a cracker rainbow hen of 5 pounds out of the 5 good trout hooked for the day. In all the couple were [...]