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

dry fly flyfishing nymphing Rainbow Trout Tongariro river

Tuesday 12 of November 2024

Tongariro 29.1 Flow (m3/sec) dropping Weather 18 C Partially Sunny The Tongariro river has dropped since Sunday night's large rainfall. We are getting right back into exceptional early summer fishing. Throughout the day, the best method continues to be double nymphing; however, wet...

Noah Shapiro

November 12, 2024

Boat fishing dry fly flyfishing night fishing nymphing Rainbow Trout Smelt summer wet lining

Sunday 10th of November 2024

Tongariro River Flow: 27.2m3/sec Weather: Overcast ⛅ The fishing has seemed to have picked up over the weekend with lots of great reports of good fishing for most anglers making their way into the shop. Wet lining, nymphing and dry...

Shop Staff

November 10, 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

dry fly fly tying flyfishing nymphing Rainbow Trout

Thursday 7th of November

Tongariro River Flow : 28.3 m3/sec Weather: Hot but Overcast⛅ The Tongariro has been fishing well lately, with many rainbows getting into anglers' nets. Most success has come from nymphing, with small naturals such as hare and copper sz:16-14 and...

Noah Shapiro

November 7, 2024

Boat fishing Rainbow Trout summer Turangi

Monday 21st of October 2024

Tongariro River Flow: 29.5m3/sec Weather: Sunny 🌞 (Wish I was out there😥) The summer fishing seems to be going quite well for some anglers both in the rivers and on the lake. Jigging being quite the success for a lot...

Hayley Hunt

October 21, 2024