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ABOUT TROUT
Early European settlers, wishing to improve NZ's farming, hunting and fishing opportunities, were responsible
for the introduction of such ghastly wreckers as possums and rabbits. One of their more benign introductions was
that of trout - brown and rainbow - released into NZ rivers in the second half of the 19th century.
Today they are much prized by sports anglers, whom you may stumble across flicking their flies, thigh-deep in
limpid rivers or on the edge of deep green pools. While this pastime, nay obsession, remains a mystery to the au-
thors of this topic, it is apparent that it brings much unbridled joy and satisfaction to the lives of its patrons. To
quote NZ author and poet Kevin Ireland in his illuminating book How to Catch a Fish, 'It has as much to do with
simple stubbornness and personal compulsion as it does with any complex notions of happiness and mystical ful-
filment. The last thing to which it has any reasonable relationship is success.'
The Tongariro River is the largest and most important spawning river in the Taupo district, and well known all
over the world for its fish. Tall tales boast of Taupo trout weighing more than a sack of spuds and measuring the
length of a surfboard. Truth be told, more than 28,000 legal trout are bagged annually, by both domestic and inter-
national fishing enthusiasts.
Trout fishing is highly regulated, with plenty of rules regarding where and how, and licences most certainly re-
quired. Read more at Fish & Game New Zealand ( www.fishandgame.org.nz ), but our best advice is to seek out a
guide. Most offer flexible trips, with $250 for a half-day a rough ballpark. Local experts include the following:
Creel Tackle House & Cafe
GOOGLE MAP (
07-386 7929; www.creeltackle.com ; 183 Taupahi Rd)
MAP
Fishing equipment, tips, guiding and coffee.
Bryce Curle Fly Fishing (
07-386 6813; www.brycecurleflyfishing.com ) Turangi-based guide.
Fish Tongariro (
07-386 7775) Turangi-based guide, Peter Canziani.
Flyfishtaupo ( 07-377 8054; www.flyfishtaupo.com ) Guide Brent Pirie offers a range of fishing excursions,
including seniors-focused 'Old Farts & Tarts' trips.
Greig's Sporting World MAP GOOGLE MAP ( 07-386 6911; www.greigsports.co.nz ; 59 Town Centre)
Hires and sells gear and handles bookings for guides and charters.
Sporting Life MAP GOOGLE MAP ( www.sportinglife-turangi.co.nz ; Town Centre) Sports store laden with
fishing paraphernalia. Its website details the latest fishing conditions.
AJ Charters ( 07-386 7992; www.ajtaupocharters.com ) Turangi-based fishing trips plus scenic lake cruises
on a 38ft catamaran.
Ian & Andrew Jenkins (
07-386 0840; www.tui-lodge.co.nz ) Father and son fly-fishing guides.
Central Plateau Fishing (
07-378 8192, 027 681 4134; www.cpf.net.nz ) Turangi-based guide, Brett Camer-
on.
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