Tauranga Taupo

[Magpie]

Hey Shane,
Great to catch up today.....On a another topic...My mother and  father's 40Th wedding anniversary is coming up...(How they did that I don't know!!!..Lil)
And Ma mentioned she would love to go and stay at or near the Tag Taupe...are there any lodges...motels etc there near the river....and if so can you give me any recommendations

Cheers
Sean

[Magpie]

By the way the spell check dosn't work!!.....lol or it may be the user.....thought I had stuffed up the word recommendations so used spell check and it changed all sorts.

Cheers
Sean
NB have had a couple of beers.....which maybe didn't help

[geoff_fishie]

stella and gordons is a place to stay by the tt. there are probably numerous other places too.

[wildwgtn]

There is Kereru lodge too.. Right up on the upper river near the cliff pool. Looks like a pretty sweet location for getting to the upper pools first, but probably costs a bit more than good 'ol Waitahanui Lodge!

Checkout: http://www.flyfishingtauponz.com/lodge

[geoff_fishie]

be up tomorrow. hope to see some of you on the water. im going to be BASHING the 'nui (sorry shane) and maybe hit a couple of smaller rips at night. hopefully these tough nui fish arent too tough.

cheers geoff

[taupof]

Hi GF, I will drop the rod into the Lodge today as I am down there. The settled weather has not be conducive to running trout sorry dude, but then all the rips are fishing well. Good luck and I'll catch ya later.

[geoff_fishie]

i left the rod at the lodge shane, thanks for letting me borrow it! fishing was hard overall, lots of small rainbows taking small mozzie patterns. on all the days there seemed to be a few big boys in the upper reaches. i got a 5 pound rainbow on sunday from cliff pool that almost gave me a smashing. apart from that all the larger fish and browns were spooky as hell. id say most of the rivers got a bashing like the nui was. at one point the rip was so packed i wondered how fish would get through. rip was fishing badly, with the current running almost paralell to the shore

regards geoff