Sporting Life Fishing Report

Brown trout Delta dry fly Egg Flies flyfishing Lake Edge Lake Fishing night fishing nymphing Patagonia Rainbow Trout

Sunday 17th November 2024

Weather: Sunny today with highs of 18C Tongariro Flow: 40.3 cumecs (m³/s) The Tongariro is back down to a great flow from the 330 cumec heavy flow we saw in the past 48 hours. The water is still coloured nicely,...

Rosie Bennett

November 17, 2024

Brown trout dry fly Lake Fishing nymphing Rainbow Trout Smelt spey summer trophy fish

November 8th 2024

This weekend the river is running at a low and clear @27.7 CU and dropping, Temps are a nice warm climb up 19 deg during the day, water temps at 9.25 deg a really nice zone for invertebrate activity and it's...

Gary Lyttle

November 8, 2024

Booby Flies Brown trout dry fly flyfishing Lake Edge Lake Fishing New Zealand night fishing nymphing Rainbow Trout Sage Smelt spey sportinglife Turangi Tongariro river Turangi wet lining Winter Fishing

Saturday 14th September 2024

Weather: Raining with heavy rain due from this afternoon into the night. Tongariro River Flow: 38.1 cumecs (m3/sec) (fluctuations expected with rain on and off) It's certainly an exciting time to be in the Central Plateau!! Our still water - Lake Rotoaira...

Rosie Bennett

September 14, 2024

Brown trout Egg Flies globugs night fishing Rainbow Trout Sage Slushy Tongariro river Turangi wet lining Winter Winter Fishing

Saturday 17th August 2024

Weather: Overcast & raining at last! Tongariro River Flow: 26.4 cumecs (m³/s) Some great reports coming in today as we write this from anglers landing good numbers of fabulous conditioned fish both yesterday afternoon and early this morning. The lower light...

Rosie Bennett

August 17, 2024

Booby Flies Brown trout fly tying flyfishing globugs Lake Edge night fishing Rainbow Trout Sage Tongariro river Turangi Winter Winter Fishing

Saturday 20th April 2024

Tongariro River Flow: 26.1 cumecs Weather: Cloudy and heavy rain forecast for the day Last night I headed out to target stream mouth fishing after work which has been one of my favourite ways to fish the region over the...

Shop Staff

April 20, 2024

Brown trout nymphing Tongariro river Winter Fishing

Thurday 18th April

Tongariro Flow: 26.3 m3/sec Weather: Today is a reasonably clear day with minimal cloud cover and light winds, pretty decent fishing conditions. There have been reports of plenty of browns in the river if you know where to find them and have...

Alex Hastie

April 18, 2024