TRM wish everyone a
Happy New Year
With another exposure of an illegal sales venue for farmed trout?
or
The only way visitors are guaranteed to catch a trout…
Thank you to so many for making 2023 so successful in every way.
Now we look forward to making 2024 even more successful. TRM inmates already know all our New Year’s wish-list resolutions – they have been much the same for the last 19 years…i.e.
1 Open North Island’s only underground power station for tourists.
2 Re-open the Turangi Museum for tourists.
3 Improve angler access on the Tongariro River.
4 Develop bike trails up the Tongariro River to link with the Poutu Dam and Tree Trunk Gorge trails.
5 Award Didymo Dave with a knighthood…
6 Start development of the T2T – Taupo to Turangi Bike trail.
This TRM wish list has been the same for many years. Judging by the results, TRM may appear to have been overly optimistic as it remains the same years later, but we prefer to aim high. We could go on and on but are confident the above wish list will be achieved one day…
In the meantime TRM Daily Report is aimed at tourists holiday activities such as promoting the illegal sales venue of trout? Isn’t the farming of trout illegal too?
This is the best way to encourage kids into the noble art of fly fishing – visit the Trout Centre. You will never get a better opportunity.
The visitor centre and museum alone are also worth the visit.
The centre opens the pond for ‘children’ from six to fourteen years old.
On the Tongariro during holiday time there are always some very mature fourteen-year-old children…
Children receive a special child’s licence and certificate confirming their catch info – weight etc. – what a bargain!
All fishing equipment is provided plus a guide and they can take home their monster trout or have it filleted and smoked for a small fee.
But make sure you book at the Turangi iSite (lined up on right in 2017) or online at www.troutcentre.com
Adults can also fish in the mighty Tongariro River – proceed from the visitor centre entrance past the Whio cage to the Birch Pool next to the seat… and have a careful squiz along the river edge…
Here is one of the best-kept Tongariro fishing secrets.
Throughout the year many kids call into the Trout Centre and buy fish food pellets to feed the trout in the kids’ pond and in the viewing stream.
Inevitably their tourist patrol around the landscaped grounds leads to the river where the parents need a rest on the seat provided to enjoy the natural river scenery and listen to the native birds and absorb the precious beautiful restful 100% pure river environment.
That is usually when the kids keep on feeding trout by throwing their pellets in the river.
So it is not difficult to guess who is waiting there every day.
If you are wearing polaroids you will probably be able to sight them waiting.
So after the kids have had their play sneak down to the river with your own rod and you will be surprised at the number of trout in the Tongariro waiting to be fed.
Don’t believe us? See evidence below… it took two casts…
But keep it to yourself as we would not want everyone else to know. OK?
