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A little late getting started again this morning, but we still managed to hit the river – this time the Tongariro – shortly after 8am. Reports from all other fishermen were that the Tongariro was still fishing a bit slow with a lot of people spending the whole day out without even a touch – even spoke to a few people who had been fishing a whole week without anything. Needless to say we wern’t expecting a lot, however the fishing wasn’t actually as hard as everyone was saying. We fished handy to where we parked and basically just fished one little lye that we could see some some trout in and Phil managed to get bust off by a good trout pretty early. By around midday Phil had managed to land 1 of 5 hooked which wasn’t a bad effort. I would guess that Phil would have hooked a similar amount the afternoon if he had continued fishing but our plan was to head to a trophy lake near Rotorua for a try before Phil headed back to Auckland for his flight out tomorrow. The trophy lake unfortunately didn’t produce – it was freezing cold and a little windy so I guess the trout just wern’t feeding agressively or wern’t in our part of the lake. In all the Tongariro certainly wasn’t fishing as fast and furious as it will in the coming months but it was still pretty good by all accounts. There also seems to be a general consensous that fish size and condition is gettting better and hopefully but the end of this season or at least next season at the latest things should be back to normal for Taupo.

Fishing Data
Time of recordings
Barometer (hPa)
Tongariro River
Flow (Cumecs)
Water Temperature(Degrees Celcius)
Tauranga-Taupo River
Height (meters above reference)
Water Temperature(Degrees Celcius)