Today’s successful TRM Fishing team are – from left – Peter & Cynthia Minns from St. Albans England and Philippe Leriche & Poehere Clark from Tahiti (plus fishing mascot Boof). They teamed up while they were here at TRM for their Lake Taupo fishing trip. In the few days here they have made the most of the great outdoors and have tramped the river walks, survived the 17 km Tongariro Alpine Crossing, rafted the upper Tongariro River, recovered in hot pools, strengthened historic Anglo/French relationships over antipodean wines, and finished off their Turangi experience with the fishing trip on the lake. Whew! The trout are now being smoked and sent on to their next destination. They are already planning their next trip.
There is a lesson in their fishing trip with local guide, Bill Grace. After two hours at the Delta without a sniff they fortunately voted to stay an extra hour just in case. Immediately they caught the six fish in the photo and returned some more… How many times have we heard that? Perhaps Bill has trained the trout…
re Yesterday’s TRM advertorial: Thank you for the emails… We share this one with you:
Dear Ross,
Having just read your report, can I offer the following comments from a user?
1) Real fishos are on the river at 5, and not back till 12, so the studios are perfect – don’t malign them. I’ve stayed in unit 10, and I swear you catch more fish if you stay in unit 10 than you do staying in unit 1…
2) Where could I find a motel with better birdlife? Quail, swallows, etc etc (good luck symbols in Europe – make sure Brent reads that) etc etc.
3) Where else do the motels have rod-racks inside? Important stuff first. Criticism – I know you have 4 rod racks per unit, but I’m carrying 6-8 rods – can I have some more rod racks please….. And my split cane rods need 3 supports, not two….. For decoration, I’d like to see the Hardy girl on the walls, (photo above) not Wayne’s fish, but I’m not letting you have my copy. Ross? I don’t think you are taking me seriously!
4) You didn’t mention your brilliant library for tired fishermen in the afternoons. If I’m bringing She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, I’ll see if I can get her to read through the entire Cordon Bleu cookery series you have there, while I’m reading Volcanic Trout, and Freshwater Admiral.
(Photo left in Cattle Rustlers at 5 am)
5) Why don’t you charge seperately for advice? And you could charge differentially depending home many fish are caught. (You’d do well on that one.) Based on your advice (which I always claim never to listen to) I’m taking a fish every 43 minutes of fishing time so far this year, and that includes lots of messing about trying things.
Kind regards….
(I thought you might enjoy the response even though he has anticipated some of TRM’s marketing promotion blurb as we were saving the little touches like rod racks and fishos’ library for promoting the one bedroom unit "advertorials" as they cost more! Naturally he will be re-graded to Economy Class, Studio Unit 10, for his next visit, but at the Business Class one bedroom unit room rate!)