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Second time today

Sun, 13 May 2012 01:49:29 -0500

We took a drive to the Rhubarb Café in Arapuni for coffee this afternoon. They were busy been Mother’s day but with their prompt service we made it back home in time to .....Shift stock with a spinning rod and the camera in hand. The camera setting corrected I caught my smallest fish for the day, that’s fishing. The area will be worth a look at tomorrow as very little rain has fallen today.

Check your camera setting

Sat, 12 May 2012 20:20:19 -0500

I changed the camera setting last night to take a shot of our Pizza oven. Oh dear. The pictures of the six Rainbows I have just caught over the last hour haven’t come out. It is Mother’s day I don’t think I should push my luck to go out again.

Our new arrival just after midnight

Sun, 06 May 2012 01:46:55 -0500

She was born just after midnight so that is her name. Midnight. We are now waiting for the rest of the herd to calve. All five of them.

The fishing continues to be productive. All the rivers are looking great and Lake Whakamaru seen to be the place just watch out for Duck shooters

Just a lazy Sunday afternoon

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:31:57 -0500

Sunday afternoon fishing right at our back door. Just how good can you get it? Another wonderful day on the Puniu. The sun was warm and the fish were there just waiting to be caught Today there were Wax eye’s, Tui and silence expect when Wendy fell over in the river. Molley spent the two hours or so that we were fishing running the river banks looking for river rats or trying to catch our fish when we hooked them. It is afternoons like this that I remember all of the reasons why we moved here.

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Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:53:49 -0600

An afternoons fish on the lower Waipapa River

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:15:40 -0600

My fishing buddy

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:02:25 -0600

I’m try my best to land a trout while Molley is ?? She just loves the water and following me fishing. Well the weather is starting to come right and the rivers are clearing. The other night I caught five and dropped a couple in less than half an hour. The fishing is looking great with two long weekends coming up.

up and dirty

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:23:12 -0600

The river level graph just tells it all. Stay home. Go shopping. Anything. All the rivers are up and dirty

Red sky at night?

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 01:30:58 -0600

And the colour is deepening as the twilight lengthens. It looks as if the rain has blown over and the forecast is fine for tomorrow. Tomorrow will be a great time to get out and have a fish. If the sun is shining brightly out I would try a darker fly. Something like a Hot Blue Pheasant Tail from Rod and Reel.

19 of the little buggers

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:24:03 -0600

Monday night arrived home to this. Grabbed a rod and went for a fish. Landed five and dropped a couple. All on a hot black may fly nymph. Check Rod and Reel’s web site. In my rush to get away from the invasion I left the camera behind.

November fishing

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:24:43 -0600

Rob with one that got away

on the clinic

Back on line. Well the season started as a shocker. The rain came down and the river up. Things have now settled down and the fishing improving.

Craig Farrar and Rob Vaz from the NZ Fly fishing team ran a one day clinic base around Trout Heaven. Everybody caught trout, polished up their fishing skills and enjoyed the day. A quick BBQ on our deck concluded a successful day.

Wikus and Adell from Johannesburg stayed for a few days last week. Shorts, booties and plenty of fishing. The Puniu, Mangatutu and Waihou Wikus enjoyed his stay.

This weekend is looking great to get out and have a fish. The Waikato hydro lakes are starting to warm and those fish are looking for the colder stream running into the lakes. Well worth a try.

Wikus and his brownie

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Fri, 28 Oct 2011 22:47:41 -0500

I found them a last

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 01:35:34 -0500

I have found them. The pictures from last weekend that is. The great fishing continues. A young lad from TA has been out here fishing. Last night just on dusk he was waiting for the evening rise when I was checking out who was fishing on the water. OK I am a right noisy bugger.

Just about poetry in motion. Casting to rising trout in the fading light, and a hook up. Two nights before Cameron caught fire brownies of 1 ½ to 2 lb and a larger one that broke off. This is well worth a try through the summer months.

Roll on the summer season

Life is not all about fishing

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:11:31 -0500

I went for a fish Saturday afternoon and downloaded the pictures and???? Have lost them, But on Friday we have a beautiful granddaughter, I think I can be forgiven. Sienna I have a fly rod all ready.

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Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:00:00 -0500

Just a couple of trout I caught yesterday. Well today, the rain has arrived. The fire is roaring away and Australia play Italy this afternoon.

Wasn’t that opening ceremony of Friday night just fantastic? Then the two games last night, Japan not quite having the fire power to beat France and Argentina been ground down in the end by England.

The fishing just keeps getting better

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:29:23 -0500

The fine weather continues. Well at least to the end on this week anyway. And more importantly the fishing just gets better.

Young Sam Bourne was down on Saturday. Congratulations to you both on that little bit of news. Now back to the fishing. With a catch count of over 30 you can see Sam enjoyed a great days fishing.

With some both Browns and Rainbows over 2lb Sam was very impressed with the number and condition of the trout in the Puniu.

I fished for a couple of hours this afternoon and caught about a dozen. ( could have been 18 ) I tend to loose count when I run into double figures. My first fish was the 1lb brown shown above. Then about ½ ways around something large broke me off. My line straight out downstream, I was just about to cast. When with a flash of silver, bang. Nymphs, trace and inductor gone. Try Czech Nymphing with a cameo leader and no inductor.

By the way Molley spooked a deer. I am not sure who received biggest fright. Molley, the deer or me.

Another successful day on the Puniu

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 02:04:56 -0500

A wee brown the first of over 30 trout caught and released on Sunday . Colin just after netting one of the many great condition trout he caught.

It looks like the rain has passed over us. A total of 2 mm fell in Ngaroma, just enough to wet the ground. This will have very little effect on the river level. I enjoyed a quick fish yesterday afternoon in a beautiful clear Puniu. I caught the small rainbow shown above on a Lady Gaga. All the trout caught lately are in great condition and when fishing with 4wt or 5wt rods they put up a great fight.

On Sunday Colin and I wandered down to the “Pines”. In no time at all I was releasing my eighth fish. Colin started a little slower but his first two fish were beauties in the 1 ½ lb range. Up stream from the pine is a long slow run. I very nearly bypassed it then decided that having all day to fish I would try a couple of flicks on the way up. Did this ever prove to be the correct decision? With Colin following about 3 rod lengths behind me we both caught fish all the way up to the top of the run.

After catching and releasing over 30 trout in about 3 hours we had covered the stretch of river we wanted to check out. Mostly stony bottomed, one section looked a little like the upper Waipapa with channels cut in to the rock bottom. This area was hard on the ankles and a little difficult to wade. Above this is a large run with submerged boulders, could be good for dry fly later in the season .In all easy fishing water that does not see much fishing pressure. Just successful day fishing on the Puniu.

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Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:53:14 -0500

Yoshi bugger

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 02:19:00 -0500

We spent the weekend up in Auckland. How the hell do you put up with the traffic? Saturday afternoon on the motorway seemed like week day morning peak hour eight years ago.

Back home mid afternoon on Sunday gave me time for a quick fish. Set up with a slow sink line I selected a brown Yoshi Bugger. These two fish in about ten minutes. A good choice of fly and the trout are still around. While shifting my stock on Monday afternoon I tried a few cast in the same spot and hooked up on a rainbow.

The weather for the rest of the week leading into the weekend is looking great. Saturday is my pick for the day to fish. Try pink or claret for nymphing, brown or olive green for down stream.

It snowed in Awakino on Monday

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 02:34:40 -0500

I caught Wendy and Una chatting at Awakino last Sunday. Love the posh dressing gown Una, anything to keep warm. Would have loved to have joined you whitebaiting on Monday. Let’s book in for next year.

All the rivers in the Waikato are looking fantastic and the weather is staying clear through next week. Why travel down to the Taupo area when the fish here are just waiting to be caught. Try the Waipa or join the AFAC fishing trip to the Ohinemuri. Wendy and I fished the Puniu last Saturday before the weather turned for the worst. The Bronze spinner worked well on the browns and the rainbows just fell for Lady Gaga.

I think the Puniu may be suffering for fishing pressure .After all, 4 people fishing in the last 3 weeks. 12 hours fishing in all. I may just visit the Waipa next.