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Tongariro River below Poutu Intake 2021 Recreational Releases :

Flows of 30 cubic metres per second for 6 hours will be released from Poutu Intake into the Tongariro River between 9am and 3pm on the following dates:

* Saturday 20th February 2021

* Saturday10th April 2021

* Saturday 25th September 2021


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Email : tongarirofishing@icloud.com

mikeandgailhughes@xtra.co.nz

Mobile: 021 023 85008
A quick guide for Cicadas.
Sun 3rd January, 2010


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New Zealand is world famous for its cicada fishing and anglers will visit Aotearoa just to fish for trout during this time.The Cicada season is relatively short lived peaking around February each year but this can vary depending on environmental factors like temperature, rain-fall etc. There are around forty species native to New Zealand and some of these terrestrials are well over an inch long.To a trout it’s like eating a Big Mac and cicada imitations can be deadly if the fish have tuned into the real thing during a prolonged emergence. When these large insects are in full song the noise a ...
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