Fishing Report ?
Stop Press – Continuing the saga of the swallows…
Flying lessons have commenced… prematurely.
Meet Fluffy. He/she is ADHD. We all know the feathers are nowhere near big enough but Fluffy really wanted to fly just like Mum. Pip says that’s what ADHD kids do – they get over active wanting attention. So Fluffy jumped…
Fortunately our hero Boof kept the local cats away while we put her back in the overcrowded nest with the rest of her whanau.
Meanwhile back on the river – Another beautiful warm summer day in Turangi with the wind now gone and the river cleared in the morning. Temperatures were hovering around 30c according to the Birches guage. We trust you appreciate how difficult it is stumbling around on the greasy boulders, struggling with the erratic flow, suffering heat exposure out there trying to bring you an updated fishing report (?) while you all recover from your holidays in air conditioned offices dialing up this rubbish for your morning tea fix… NO! We wouldn’t swop it for the world. The Big T is a marvelous place at the moment because you are all back at work…
But back to business – the heat was getting to me .
We could count about twenty trout on either side of the SH1 bridge. We reckon you can identify the fresh runners compared to the recovering fish by their colours. The lighter green/kahki/ jade backs – harder to spot in the deeper water – belong to the fresh; the darker shallow water easily seen backs are recovering. The balance was about 50/50.
Photos are of Claire Claire Newbern from Atlanta, GA. USA., (visiting Turangi for one night four nights ago) now back in focus without the wind… showing her new skills casting into the bypass. She dragged me, protesting, out of the sweat shop laundry and insisted I had to escort her around the braided loop. After noticing trout smashing the surface at the top of Bain Pool a couple of days ago we were hoping to find some cicada activity but the braided area is more suited to small weighted nymphs at the moment.
We fished through the circuit around the Swirl Honeypot Veras Plank Pool area all morning and only noticed three other anglers (and one other dog) although as the flow noticeably increased – from about 28 to 40 m3/sec. – the water clarity reduced and soon the word was out. Five anglers were nymphing at the Lower Bridge Pool on our return. These locals must have a direct line to the fish… or Genesis?