Every summer tourists ask the same question about buying fresh or frozen or smoked trout. To explain the issues, below is TRM’s blog from over eight years ago August 1, 2016 Perfect precedent for tourists to buy smoked trout?… Above – SWMBO delivering another tasty treat of smoked Tongariro trout… Recently we were reminded of […]

(AKA “yew thought yew knew every plucking thing!”) Everyone in Turangi has been waiting in anxious anticipation for the independent investigation and report from Toe-paw Council to explain the reasons they pruned (massacred?) a protected registered mature majestic Oak tree on Taupahi Road last November. In the meantime, TRM’s request for ideas asking for suggestions […]

TRM is privileged by a regular group of “inmates” who return year after year to fish the Tongariro River. Over many years most have developed long strong friendships that only dedicated trout fishos can understand. Some photos illustrate TRM inmates attending Happy Hours from the past. For us, this has been an interesting social exercise […]

Now that most of the Christmas-New Year holiday crowds have returned to their homes, the weather will improve and we will look forward to the overdue usual summer temperatures. The recent weather was more like winter. If you can remember ten years back, can you imagine that the Toe paw council anticipated this and erected […]