First report in this morning was from Andrew Brown who landed six rainbows within half an hour in the Braids – all caught nymphing on small naturals. What a great way to start the day…
It is a beautiful clear day in Turangi with some ice left on the peaks of surrounding hills from the overnight southerly blast.
Images are of the pine tree that fell into the run below the island Pool and above Judges Pool.
This used to be known as Doctor’s Pool. Parts of the mature pine tree are scattered throughout Judges Pool and the top section is now wedged below the traffic bridge – in the Trolls Pool.
This is a good example of why DoC and the Advocates have been arranging for contractors to poison the wilding pines further up river to prevent this from happening more often.
If this pine got swept down river in the next flood it would end up straddled across the piers of the traffic bridge and act as a dam collecting more debris and create a real hazard.
Further to TRM’s invitation to inmates to display your favourite images on the Daily report, Doug Davison – a retired builder from Melbourne – was the first who has been persuaded under duress to show us his camera memory card. Doug is a regular visitor to TRM several times each year.
We first met when I was walking over the road bridge in my waders and carrying a rod, as you do, several years ago.
Doug – photo on left hooked up in the willows last week – approached me to have a cast at a big trophy sized brown trout hog that he spied lurking around amongst the snags above the bridge. I was silly enough to give it a go – it was a very different flow in those days. I cast out too far and the line spooked it and it sunk away to sulk until we had gone.
I then met Doug again down at the Plank Pool (which was also quite different then) where he wanted to spot the wild migrating trout. We had a good old chat about the fishing and somehow got on to what we had planned for TRM for the future – including an anglers retreat – or meeting room etc.
He kindly offered to donate a wall feature being an ancient valuable 1920′s Hardy’s two handed cane rod which he delivered on his next visit, together with other angling paraphernalia to start off our exhibition. Now, five years later, he returns several times a year to visit Boof and check to see if we have built the Anglers retreat to display his family heirlooms. The cane rod is now mounted across SWMBO’s living room. It just goes to show you cannot trust anyone these days.
We will feature Doug’s photos tomorrow Sunday as today he is flying back home.