Another fail here too. Fished Taupo Sat 24/1/15 Waitahanui mouth about 12:15 to 2:15pm for nix. Mate nix too. We fished streamer smelt flies at the top (ginger mick, gray ghost) and globugs as a dropper. A guy next to us hooked a nice fish but lost it about 2 minutes into the fight. He was fishing a white booby fly at the top and "anything green" as the dropper. There were up to 5 anglers at the time, and no good fish landed, so it was slow.
Sunday 25/1/15 harling around 5 Mile Bay and south of Waitahanui. 5 Mile Bay was dead but the 8 metre mark south of Waitahanui yielded a few fish. I released 2 slabs, the first with a large growth in its stomach, not a pretty sight. The second was in better condition but was mottled brown & yellow on the belly so back it went. My mate then picked up a small fish in average condition and a nice silver colour so we kept it. Later turned out to have very dull coloured flesh and almost no flavour, but we gratefully ate it anyway.
We tried a bit of jigging about 9am from 25m down to 45m off Waitahanui. No sign on the sounder, no smelt no trout, so no surprises there. Then joined a gaggle of jiggers off Wharewaka Point (2 yaks, rubber ducky and 2 other boats), about 35m, and dangled our Uncles jig sets to no avail. Again no sign at all, but one of the other boats landed one while we were there. The ranger was doing his rounds, weighing and measuring every fish, and to avoid the tedium of having our single sprat pawed over, we flagged it. Besides, I had one of them thar new-fangled online licenses (spits loudly in the dust). I would have had to show the ranger my phone with a confirmation email saying I'd purchased a 1-week license, but I didn't have access to a printer, so wasn't able to print a copy. Not sure how they handle that. Didn't stick around to find out.
Great weather, great company, sampled a bit of trout, tried 3 methods of fishing - poific!