Following on from the unusual weather last year, we’ve had more strange weather this past couple of months. NIWA, our National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, talked about El Nino weather patterns and predicted at the start of May that “rainfall is most likely to be normal or above normal in the north and west of the North Island …
Well it’s been the crappiest summer we’ve had here in Taupo in over a decade. It has been frustrating because the last couple of summers were great with some exceptional fishing, but due to closed borders we couldn’t share it with friends and clients from overseas. If we wind back the clock, 2022 was an odd year for fly fishing …
Everyone around Taupo and Turangi is waiting for the fishing to go off but May has been a fairly dry settled month in the Taupo region and the lake is incredibly low. We keep watching for rain but we’ve have no big storm yet to get the rivers up and kick things off. What this does mean is that when …