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River Reports
email : tongarirofishing@icloud.com
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Sizzling.
Mon 28th January, 2019
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| The fabulous summer weather rolls on and things are really warming up now. The FPO and I have been away for a few days enjoying some salt water fly fishing. But before I left, the fishing on the river wasn't too bad either. A lot of anglers were doing the sensible thing and fishing early or late. And with the likelihood that the mercury will exceed thirty degrees I expect the same thing to happen this week. During long periods of hot weather the cooler, oxygen rich water in or near runs and riffles are some of the best places to prospect. And now that fish are well and truly looking up for the ... |
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We'll need ear muffs before long.
Sat 19th January, 2019
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| Despite a change in the weather at the beginning of the week, the cicadas kept coming. And it's turning out to be one of the most significant cicada events for several years. I don't know what its like where you guys live but the sound of them chirping in the nearby forest starts at first light and continues non-stop until early evening. When you're on the river the husks are everywhere and as you make your way along the tracks you'll often feel cicadas fly into you or hear their startled screech if you get too close. I'm sure the heavy rain and wind at the start of the week saw to it that mor ... |
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Here they come.
Thu 10th January, 2019
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| The warm sunny weather and patchy drizzle of the past few days has triggered the emergence of huge numbers of cicadas in the area. Along the banks of the Tongariro the trees and undergrowth are littered with abandoned nymphal cases and the air is filled with the adults mating calls. Fly fishermen in New Zealand eagerly await this event every year because it often signals a few weeks of top notch surface action as the trout gorge themselves on these big insects. But in recent years although the annual emergence of these bugs started well, it was often cut short because of sudden changes in the ... |
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New Year Report
Mon 7th January, 2019
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| With the silly season over for another year "the river" is slowly returning to normal during the week as anglers go back to work. Just before Christmas we had some pretty active thunderstorms and the resulting downpours must have affected some of the streams way up in the headwaters because up until yesterday morning the Tongariro was still running a little murky. The same thing happened around April last year and the fine sediment brought down then, took ages to "drop out." You can see it again along the margins and no matter how carefully you wade you'll kick up clouds of the stuff when you' ... |
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