Picked up Sergio this morning from the Anglers Paradise motel in Turangi this morning for a few hours fishing and experieced the best weather conditions for 6 months or more. The weather, helped by Sergio’s excellent fishing skills enabled him to land 4 out of 7 trout hooked including two nice fresh runs. To end the trip, Sergio had a couple of takes on dry fly but did not managed to hook either trout.

Went over to Tauranga today to sight fish for Yellow Tail kingfish with Clark Reid and friend Kevin Dhillan. Though the Kingfish weren’t around yet, (they will arrive for the summer sometime in the next few days or weeks) we still had a ball with several Kahawai engulfing Clark’s flies. Conditions were perfect and the day was fantastic with the three of us having a great time on Clark’s customized fly fishing boat while we hunted for kingfish – doing it bonefish styles! I am looking forward to another trip across soon, hopefully when I get a chance and conditions are perfect again. Perhaps next time the kingfish will play ball – and looking at Clark’s photos from last season I am sure they will. For some reason, sight fishing a 30 – 40 pound Yellowtail kingfish on sand flats in New Zealand has more appeal to me than bonefish at the moment!

Guided Stewart and Michelle White from Santa Barbara in California today and had a great day. Initially the fishing was a little tough then we hit a couple of hot spots later on with 17 excellent fish of around 3 lbs or more hooked of which 7 were landed. Michelle manged two of these – pretty good for her first days fly fishing.

Guided Chris Skin again today on the Tongariro and had a pretty good time. The morning was a little slow as expected but the afternoon was fantastic with Chris landing 8, losing one or two, a few brief strike and wriggles and several missed takes on dry fly. Chris managed to land 4 on dry including being 3 for 3 at one stage which was an excellent introduction for dry fly fishing.