APOLOGY
TRM apologises to all regular viewers – TRM web site and daily reports have been off the planet in cyberspace (?) for the last four days waiting for Telstra clear to find our DSL link – their service reflects the Turangi pace of life. Dead slow… it took four days! (the hard-to-find bug must have been planted by Shane?)
Now we know what it is like missing your daily fix – even we missed it!
FISHING REPORT:
Plenty of fishy activity on the Tongariro over the last week. Many of our guests have been out on the lakes. Some HUGE browns have now established their impossible to cast to "possies" in the lower river. We tried bow & arrow casting without success (Don’t tell Jason!). Even if we had suckered one they would be impossible to land amongst all the flood debris. Lots of fun trying though…
Best fishing results were from Stuart Nicol, a regular Tongariro visitor for the last twenty years, from Newcastle Australia, up at Lake O canal with three landed in half an hour – the smallest released rainbow was five and a half, the largest at six and a half, caught on tiny Damsel fly nymphs. He had been driven nuts by trout porpoising in front of him for most of the day ignoring everything he had offered and then BINGO it all happened when they decided it was feeding time. What time? About 5pm. – but can you believe an Aussie/Pom?
Best Tongariro result was by Graham Anthony from Cardiff – a spy from Gwent Angling Society. He was fishing the fast water below the RHS of Admirals and in the the Plank Pool. We believe Graham was really here on a recce for 2011. Yes 2011 – that is not a typo. The cunning Welsh have already sussed out Turangi as the ideal location, half way to everywhere in the North Island, for their HQ base during the 2011 World Cup. Between footy games they can go fly fishing. The Welsh version of Paradise…
Photos are of Brad Hutchinson (above right with one of the beautiful brown trout) & Mark Onus (left – releasing the rainbow trout) from Seattle (with one other fisho – sorry I don’t have his name?) guided by Andrew Christmas – who took the photos too. Yesterday between Neverfail Pool and Stag Pools they landed and released a total of thirty two trout. Great fishing (& guiding!). They report that is far and away the best fly fishing they have found in NZ.
So that should indicate how hard the local conditions are at present – just fantastic. What a pleasant time to be out on the river. But I suppose someone has to do all the real work…
(Photo right of Stuart Darling from Australia – fishing the delta recently with Bill Grace)