Why you need a guide?
Remember landing your first trout on a fly? SWMBO believes this should be on everyone’s bucket list. You will never forget it.
Images are of Dave & Sue Petrie from Auckland on their first ever attempt at fly fishing.
What a great image on right – Sue’s first trophy trout!
They wisely chose the Tongariro River with TRM’s fishing guide Richard Mowforth.
The involvement of a fishing guide made good sense and was considered by them as a worthwhile investment to confirm their future participation in this wonderful past-time.
Now they have the knowledge and confidence to know where to go, what to do, etc. and realise how easy it is – moreso when you wear a lucky hat…
It must be so rewarding to have a recreation hobby sport addiction whatever (?) pursuit that you can share together. (I wouldn’t know!)
The Tongariro River environment provides such a good learning environment to start as it is available all year round and there is such a wide variety of fishy water with so many pools and runs to choose from depending on your fitness and ability.
Some lucky anglers discover to their delight they never need to go anywhere else as it has everything… (Guess who?)
After losing the first six hook ups their playing and landing technique quickly improved under Richard’s patient instruction and they quickly improved to enjoy a fabulous day out.
They confessed they had been practising their casting technique for the last year and this was the first time they had applied it. So naturally they started cautiously and nervously and were so very pleased with their successful progress. TRM love to see such enthusiastic novices embarking on their new fly fishing career.
On the weekend we had three fishing guides operating out of TRM so it is interesting to consider their results – by comments from their clients afterwards...
Some guides ‘generalise’ while others ‘specialise’ – horses for courses – while others represent other lodges and motels.
TRM’s experience suggests all the local guides are good but some are better than others in certain situations.
Tomorrow TRM Daily Report will show the benefits of using a guide – i.e.
