Sporting Life Fishing Report

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Sunday 20th October 2024

Weather: Sunny and reaching 19C with expected warm weather to continue through the week. Tongariro River Flow: 29.8 cumecs (m³/s) This spell of sunshine will be warming the waters and increasing insect activity, especially for the evening rises which is what we...

Rosie Bennett

October 20, 2024

Thursday 17th October 2024

Tongariro River Flow: 31.0m3/sec Weather: Mostly sunny with a high of 17 degrees, light winds The last couple of days have had some beautiful blue-sky weather, things are definitely starting to warm up as summer draws near!...

Alex Hastie

October 17, 2024

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Monday 14th of October 2024

Tongariro River Flow: 34.9m3/sec Weather: Cloudy ⛅ Over the last week there has been some amazing fishing! I myself have been out quite a bit on the Tongariro river fishing both upper river and lower river and been getting into...

Hayley Hunt

October 14, 2024

Friday 11th October 2024

Tongariro River Flow: 35.8m3/sec Pictured above Guideline ULS Hybrid Fly Rod – Sportinglife Turangi (sportinglife-turangi.co.nz) matched with RIO InTouch Salmo/Steelhead Fly Line – Sportinglife Turangi (sportinglife-turangi.co.nz) The local fishing continues to impress, especially the Tongaririo river at the moment Good numbers of solid fresh...

Gary Lyttle

October 11, 2024

Wednesday 9th October 2024

Tongariro River Flow: 39.3m3/sec Weather: Overcast with patchy rain, high of 12 degrees Throughout the last week we have experienced a good amount of rain here in Turangi with the Tongariro spiking up to 150 cumecs at one point....

Alex Hastie

October 9, 2024

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Thursday 3rd of October 2024

Tongariro River Flow: 53.3m3/sec Weather: Heavy Rain easing midday. The Tongariro River Flow is quite high with this good lot of rain we should see some great fishing over the weekend so travel on down to Turangi and get your...

Hayley Hunt

October 3, 2024