Trip was awesome.
Didn't get alot of fishing in.
Day 2 Fished Hinemaeia for 2 hours for one 2 lb fresh rainbow and lot of lost flies. Nice little river. Would love to fish the upper sectionwhen its open with a 4 wt looks very nice.
Day 3 Took the family mid afternoon fishing on TT. Spent most of the time setting the wife up and helping her out. Had a quick flick before we left and scored a a nice 6 lber from the pump pool on the last cast. Had to leave as the kids and the Mrs had had a enough. Just reward for carrying the 18 month old in on the pack.
Fished the Waipehi stream mouth later that night. Waded out at about 9 and said gudday to one of the two standing either side of the rip. No reply .... mmmm ok ...... maybe I'm a bit close I thought .... moved over a bit. Bit later another guy wanderd out next to me ..... gudday I said .... no reply. Friendly bunch these night time stream mouth guys I thought. Anyway carried on fishing trying to get used to casting in the dark ..... does absolute wonders for your casting night time fishing. So after about 1 1/2 hrs no ones hooked up and then wham I'm on. About 5 mins later � had a nice 5 lb silver bulllet flapping on the shore. Lumo dole did the damage.
Wandered back out and all of a sudden the two guys were standing much closer than before and "hows it going" and a few other questions were flying my way like "what you using".... "glo bug" � told them ...... stripes earned !!
Fished the TT the next morning first light for 11 fish in 3 hours best was 6 lb smallest was 3 1/2lb . I was stoked with that. Ran into a lot of guys on the way back down who were complaining about the lack of fish .... need a fresh ... yada yada yada. Couldn't understand it
. I had heard the TT can be a bit like that if you find the fish your in .... if you don't can be tough just glad I found them.
And that was a bout it. Had a good time caught my first night time lake fish and nailed the TT ..... didn't fish the Tongariro ....not sure why.
Cheers Toby