Monday 10th September 2018

Fine and sunny with a huge frost to start the day today. No wind as of 9:00am. The Tongariro is clear and fishable.

We had some nice sunny weather over the weekend. The Tongariro is nice and clear. I decided to take the Grandkids for a fish yesterday. It was the first time they had been trout fishing. I wanted to take them out to get them interested in fishing to hopefully foster a keen interest and try and get them into the outdoors rather than let them play on the electronic devices that suck out kids brains and turn them into zombies.

We had a nice sunny day …. with a bit of wind. We hooked four and landed four. The two little fellas wound in two each ! The other one helped with scooping the fish up in the net. The were most pleased with themselves. They did really good listening to instructions and their little hands were winding fast !

I showed them how to wet their hands before handling the fish and they got to put them back and watch them swim off. I also showed them the insect life under the rocks and they were really interested.

They pottered around the river bank playing in the sand and the muck as kids do but slightly after an hour they had had enough and it was time to go.

They were amazed at how slimey the fish were.

We were nymphing. One fish took thebomb and the other three took asmall hare and copper. The kids couldn’t believe the size of the flies. They thought they were so small to catch quite a big fish.

(Below) Alex, 5(left) and Connor, 6 (Right) from Masterton. Alex woundthis fish in. It was a really long fish. They really liked putting them back and to watch them swim off.