Just a note from a recent weekend on the Tongariro. My first visit to Taupo for the winter. Was very pleasantly surprised to find the average size even better than last year, and that had been the best for over a decade.
Was skunked by a number of powerful fresh run fish and the average size of fish landed would have been 4 - 4.5 pds.
Biggest was about a 7pd Brown, smallest was a little 2pd Rainbow.
Only physically weighed two fish, both rainbow hens of 5.5pds.
(Yes, net weight is accurate. Yes I am fairly accurate in my weight estimates of unweighed fish. I have been playing this game for a while and catch a reasonable number of fish.)
I don't know if I lucked out and ran into pods of bigger fish and others have actually been finding the fish smaller than that. Or if indeed they are bigger again this year for everyone.
Would be interested to hear how others have been going.
Cheers
Duncan