Sporting Life Fishing Report

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Saturday 20th December 2025

Weather: 16°C Mostly overcast today with periods of rain. Tongariro River Flow: 26 cumecs (m3) The slightly cooler weather has hit Turangi in the past few days and will continue through the Christmas period with some sunny days in-between. This...

Rosie Bennett

December 20, 2025

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Saturday 13th December 2025

Weather: Sunny, 22° with light winds up to 20kms. Tongariro River Flow: 26.4 cumecs (m³/s) The weather has been beautiful sunshine this week which has woken up the hatching insect life nicely and we have seen some nice topwater activity...

Rosie Bennett

December 13, 2025

Euro Nymphing Gift Sage summer Tongariro river Yeti

Tuesday 17th of December 2024

Tongariro river: 23.2 Flow (m3/sec) Weather: 15C, Partially Cloudy, 22 kmph Wind The Browns are showing up! Brown and rainbow trout have been active on the Tongariro. While the number of fish in the river has decreased slightly compared to earlier...

Shop Staff

December 17, 2024

Gift Jigging Lake Fishing nymphing

December 4th 2024

Tongariro River: 26.9 Flow (m3/sec) Weather: 21C, Partially Sunny, 19kmph wind Nymphing has been the most effective fishing method on the Tongariro River recently, though dry fly fishing and wetlining can still yield results. For a nymph rig, pair a...

Noah Shapiro

December 4, 2024

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December 2nd 2024

Tongariro River: 27.1 Flow (m3/sec) Weather: 22 C Partially Sunny If you've been keeping up with our recent blogs, you’ll know about some of the top-performing flies. If not, here’s a quick update on what’s been working lately! The hot flies for...

Noah Shapiro

December 2, 2024