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  • Want to learn more about fly fishing?

    The Rotorua Anglers Association is running another A-Z Fly Fishing course on Saturday & Sunday 30 November & 1 December 2024. Register here  or email the assocation direct rotoruaanglers@gmail.com

  • Tidying the Ngongataha

    Fishing the Ngongotaha, upstream from the village, is a challenge for even the most experienced angler. One of the objectives of the ‘Stream Team’ is to identify good fishing waters that can be made more accessible for anglers. Steep banks, overhanging trees, and debris in the stream itself are the most common challenges faced. Pictured, is a set of steps that have been constructed to make access to a promising stretch of the stream more accessible. Prior to their installation, intrepid anglers had to contend with a steep and slippery slope. There is more work yet to be done on this particular stretch of the stream. A track needs to be cleared along the bank to give anglers better visibility for locating holding fish. Willows, growing low down on the bank and stretching across the stream impede progress for the wading angler. If those could be removed, an angler could wade upstream a considerable distance fishing the holes and undercut banks. This will be the next project for the Rotorua Anglers stream team.

  • Planting the future

    A cold wind and intermittent showers may have deterred some, but there was a very good turn out for the Community Planting Day on the Ngongataha Stream walkway on 1 July. Around eight hundred native plants, courtesy of Regional Council, were planted at designated sites along the walkway. A big thank you to the volunteers who turned up. Their efforts will help control erosion on the stream banks and add to the natural beauty of the walkway.

  • Interclub 2023

    Rotorua Anglers Association hosted the annual Interclub competition during the weekend of 24-26 February. The two other clubs were Tauranga and Taupo. Gavin Corbett, the organiser, said that it wasn’t so much about competition but about fishing and friendship. Prizes were generously donated by Kilwell and Hamills. On each day there were eight spot prizes and the major prizes were awarded in the following categories: heaviest rainbow, heaviest brown, best condition factor, closest to a mystery weight, junior angler, and best/worst hard luck story. The current holder of the interclub trophy is the Rotorua Anglers Association. Congratulations to the club members who turned out to fish their hearts out. Because of the weather and an algal bloom in Lake Rotorua, the fishing waters were expanded to any lake or its tributaries in the Rotorua area, where it is legal to fish. That gave every opportunity for boat and land-based anglers alike to fish by any legal method. The catering was organised in-house. On Friday night the clubhouse had to expand to accommodate around 50 people. Besides the competitors from Tauranga and Taupo, there was a contingent of Auckland fishers who looked in to enjoy our hospitality. Gavin Corbett, Brendan Davis and Rika Otto with the help of Marie Hutchison and her husband David organised the food. Gwen Inskeep and Terry Wood were the weighmasters. Thank you to the generous competitors who donated their catches to anybody who would take them. Next year Tauranga will host the Interclubs. It may be held in Rotorua. There is more news about the Interclubs in the February edition of the newsletter.

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