Daily Report

Can you pick the pool?

  Photo above from this morning’s session.  Welcome back to these Auckland inmates who were asking which pools are producing when the Tongariro River is offering such perfect conditions. Despite the usual misleading wet forecast, it was flowing at low levels and crystal clear in warm spring overcast weather with no wind, It does not […]

RIP Juno

RIP JUNO… TRM blogs will be missing for a while as we recover. A few nights ago, we were woken when thieves slammed the garage door as our motel dog, Juno, helped speed their departure.  The next day, we discovered they had taken about five sets of waders, fly rods, nets, etc. Then we should […]

Almost there…

TRM’s roving anon photographer, who we call the Stig, Sunday update reports: Nice countersunk support bolts, one end nearly complete the other end to be finished. Perhaps he should be a building inspector? .

A new fishing club in town?

Welcome to the Kutai Street Fly Fishing Club! On Juno’s doggie exercise walkies to the library this morning, I came across two suspicious characters at the Saturday Morning market, wearing distinctive fishing hats.  New trout fishing hats are always interesting in Turangi – Trout Fishing Capital of the World. The good looking angler on right […]