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Exactly what we needed.
Tue 1st July, 2014
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  After twelve hours of non - stop rain the Tongariro peaked at around two hundred cumecs. By early Tuesday morning it had dropped back to fishable levels and despite the heavy color there were already anglers trying their luck in the Bridge Pool at first light.
This is exactly what we needed and should encourage some better runs. The Met Service is warning of much colder weather spreading up the country on Wednesday with snow to 600 meters. This is likely to affect the higher ground north of Taihape including the Desert Road but will be a welcome sight on the ski slopes.
Historically this combination of higher flows and lower temperatures usually has a positive influence on the fishing. And with more rain and showers forecast we could see some of the best runs of the year as we head towards the weekend.
I had a quick flick around the Braids for an hour but neither myself or any of the anglers I spoke to caught anything in the coffee colored water.
However as this color continues to drop out I'll be amazed if the Tongariro doesn't begin firing over the next few days.
 
Before the fresh it had been a bit of a hit or miss week depending which days you fished and also where you fished. We still haven't got a river full of trout nor are they evenly spread but there were one or two better rainbows out there ... if you could find them.
As always those fisho's that were prepared to move around were the ones that did best.
I did meet a very unhappy angler who had fished everyday for the past seven days and had only caught one !
Now I don't want to sound a "smart arse" because we all go through lean spells but I think I'd be looking to change something if I'd fished for a week and only had one hook up.
Caddis are coming into their own and once things settle down again both these and globugs will be the flies a lot of anglers reach for during the runs of the next few months.
 
The ongoing flood management program started up again today ... this time on the TLB below the Bridge Pool. This area together with several other locations along the river were sprayed with weed-killer by specialist contractors earlier this year. The aim ... to remove willow and other nuisance vegetation within the flood - way.
In some places this will need a mechanical as well as a chemical intervention and by the middle of this week the machines will be working along the Island Pool stretch.
Eventually the reduction of willow and scrub that hampers flood flows will allow the growth of grass species and other less problematic ground cover plants. Its hoped these will establish themselves over the next few years.
This may well be the last report for a little while because I've got some other things I need to concentrate on. With the best months of the year coming up have a great time out there.
Tight lines guys
Mike |
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Good afternoon,
How can the volume of the Tongariro drop so quickly? Is it interference from the hydro scheme?
If so, surely this can't be good for the river as it is not allowing it to naturally flush out sediment etc...instead all momentum is removed and sediment is just dropped...particularly in lower reaches.
Thanks for the reports.
David |
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