Fishermen of Taupo
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The first time I met David was at the Tauranga- Taupo River, he was working for the Department of Conservation at the time and he had asked to check my fishing license. The second time I met him was a year later after he had retired, that’s when I got to know him. It was partly his idea for this book. He once said, “Why not write about the people you have met”, now that’s another book, but I thought why not write a book about the fishermen of Taupo I’ve met. I felt it was about time Taupo was written about again, before all these fishermen are gone, my only worry is that I’m seeing the last of a kind.
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About the Book
Fishermen of Taupo is a book about the fly fishermen of New Zealand’s Lake Taupo. It tells the individual stories of twenty Taupo fishermen that I have been fortunate enough to fish with over the years. Taupo is, and still remains, a gem, but with the world getting ever smaller due to air travel, this fishery is fragile. Still it remains, like its trout, wild. It needs protecting before it’s lost.
About the Author
The author has fished in many places, including Gambia, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Kenya, India, Portugal, Australia, New Zealand, Venezuela, Belize, Christmas Island, Honduros, USA, and Canada to name but a few, visiting some of these several times, always with a camera and fishing rod as his companions. Fishing expeditions have lasted anything from two weeks to six months. In this book, the reader is taken to just some of these exotic locations in search of bonefish, tarpon, payara, mahseer, white sturgeon, and trout.