TALTAC Annual Competition Results:
Each year TRM publish the TALTAC results to indicate where in the Taupo fishery the biggest trout are being caught.
Compared to previous years the lighter weights are noticeable.
The stupid Privacy Act prevents us from listing the names of all the winners in each category – unless we won.
But then we did not enter knowing we would get beaten. It’s a tough world out there, you have to be in to win.
(Photo above right – Volcanic Trout Author/Photographer/Angler Brendon Mathews -
Winner of 2007 Jubilee Shield & Heaviest Brown in Fishery & Heaviest Rainbow other than Tongariro)
Place Kg Hen/jack CF Pool
Heaviest rainbow above The Birches:
1st 2.6 hen 48 Admirals
2nd 1.92 jack ? Red Hut
3rd 1.8 jack 39 Cliff
Heaviest rainbow below the Birches:
1st 2.54 jack 49 Bridge
2nd 2.5 jack 41 Bridge
3rd 2.4 hen 66 Jones
Heaviest Brown in the Fishery
1st 4.0 jack 46 Waihora Stream
2nd 3.5 jack 40 Hydro
3rd 3.4 hen 37 Bridge
Heaviest Rainbow other than Tongariro
1st 4.4 hen 44 Lake O
2nd 3.2 jack 50 Hinemaia
3rd 3.0 hen 34 Te Whaiau
Ladies
1st 2.7 jack 47 Lake O
2nd 2.6 jack 45 Lake Taupo
3rd 1.8 jack 39 Cliff
Junior
1st 2.9 hen 42 Boulder Reach
2nd 2.7 jack 47 Lake O
3rd 2.6 hen 48 Admirals
Condition factor – Brown
1st 2.7 jack 47.5 Lake O
2nd 4.0 jack 45.96 Waihora
3rd 2.6 jack 43.49 Major Jones
Condition factor – Rainbow
1st 2.4 hen 66.53 Jones
2nd 1.4 hen 55.5 Smallmans
3rd 3.2 jack 50.93 Hinemaia mouth
(Photos above of some good specimens from TRM Anglers in previous years – not in TALTAC’s competition. )