Fishing Report – Update
Garth James from Adelaide just popped in for a pit stop to refuel.
We discovered he was up to 11 landed from the Braids before lunch.
And he only works office hours…
Garth is one delightful Aussie fisho who is always reluctant to reveal his superb catch rate here but SWMBO has had Her spies out.
He is at TRM for two weeks and now, mid way through his holiday, his average daily catch rate is remarkable.
But it is no use asking Garth. The nearest he came to admitting it was to reluctantly suggest the fishing is “bloody marvelous”…
Steady rain has arrived. Tongariro is now rising and up from about 30 to 40 m3/s this morning. I’m outta here…
TRM inmates are in for some great fishing for the rest of this week.
Why you should use a fishing guide…
1 From the fishing guide/inmate:
I asked fishing guide, Paul McDonald, for a brief report from his visit here last week – it is always interesting to see how anglers’ skills and results improve when they get good tuition…
Just a quick thanks to Ross and Pip once again your hospitality was outstanding the perfect lodgings after a day spent on the water, I had a day guiding Mark from the States on Wednesday we started early on the Hine and by around midday Mark had landed around 15 fish mostly dark body fish but boy did they put up a scrap.
The river has a lot of fish holding in there at the moment – like I said lots of darker fish some spent with a few fresh ones in the mix – the key was lots of weight (heavy bomb or split shot) orange or red glow bugs and when the sun gets up over head the fishing seemed to slow down. We switched to Pheasant tail nymphs and started to hammer them again. It was great been up there mid week, saw only 2 other anglers, one of them Josh also from the USA witnessed our luck and booked me for the following day.
Once again we started early and headed up the TT. We arrived a couple of pools below the cliff pool at about 6.30am, it was overcast and quite mild, or maybe it was the fact we had just walked for 30 mins to get to my favorite pool – everybody has one, right. Anyway I got Josh rigged up, first cast wham the indicator disappeared as soon as it hit the water and six more times after that six fish before 7am. This was going to be a good day.
The rig I had Josh set up on was 9ft 7lb leader down to two split shot pinched on above a blood knot then a foot down to a size 14 orange glow bug with a PT hanging only 4” below the glow bug, We fished a half day and Josh had caught 19 for the morning and was done, he was complaining of a sore shoulder.
The condition of the fish are great on this water, lots of fresh ones still, between 2-6lb.
My tip is get up early get your flies down deep and fast and stay at the TRM.
Paul McDonald
Waikato flyfishers
027 6060106
07 8381946
paul@waikatoflyfishers.co.nz
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2 From another TRM inmate/client:
David Helliwell from Mt. Roskill pictured with two fine trout which I believe came out of the Hinemaiaia. These were just two of many he hooked and landed with Shane French for the morning trip last week. His half day trip finished late in the afternoon… He was similarly so impressed with his guides’ local knowledge and assistance. I understand they were originally heading for the Waimarino but the guide immediately recognised it as too full and dirty and difficult so they carried on up to the Hine instead. In no time he was directed onto Spot X and hooked up. What a brilliant way to start a fishing trip to check on your technique and gear and get some fresh trout into the smokehouse from day 1. David was the second inmate who used Shane last week and both reported enthusiastically – they both had a very successful and memorable day and it was such a wise investment.
Correspondence:
Hi Ross, … Just woundering if you have fished the Waihaha river up from the falls? and if so what is it like and is it worth fishing? Regards BJ
Can any readers help BJ?