River Condition Survey Post Cyclone Gabrielle

Hawke's Bay
19/06/2023

Thanks to those who took the time to fill out the survey and let us know what they are seeing out there on our rivers since Cyclone Gabrielle.

Start time	What river/s have your visited recently?	How clear was the water?	Did you find signs of invertebrate life?	Did you catch anything?	If Yes what was the condition of your catch?	Any other comments?
6/7/23 12:36:16	Tuki tuki	Clear, good visability		Yes	Lean
6/7/23 12:38:19	Waipawa	Murky, medium levels of silt	Some	Yes	Small but good condition	Definitely not the numbers of fish usually about in any if the rivers ive fished
6/7/23 12:46:02	Tukipo, mangaonuku, waipawa., tuki tuki	Clear, good visability	In smaller tributaries yes. Less presence in larger rivers	Yes	Smaller fish of good condition.. larger fish below normal condition	Northern rivers and lake tutira lot more effected. These will need help to recover.
6/7/23 12:55:20	Tuki, Tukipo, Waipawa, Makororo	Clear, good visability	?	Yes	Fairly good
6/7/23 13:22:14	Tuki, Nagaroro	Murky, medium levels of silt	Yes	Yes	Average	Rubbish everywhere, i filled a bag full and thats on nearly each trip
6/7/23 13:48:28	Tutaikuri	Clear, good visability	Very low	No		Went for a walk upper tutaikuri/Donald rivers, no fishing just looking. Very few nymphs, 2 fish seen only.
6/7/23 14:03:17	Tukituki	Clear, good visability	Yes	Yes	Mostly a little lighter than usual but also a few healthy rainbows .	I've been on the Tukituki and covered a fair amount of ground along Kahuranaki rd and have had decent success both seeing and catching fish which has been hearting
6/7/23 14:19:16	Tuki Tuki	Clear, good visability	Yes	Yes	Ranged from one very think jack to a few decent condition jacks and hens and one very good condition, large hen
6/7/23 14:49:46	Tukituki	Clear, good visability	No	Yes	Two very fat Jack's around 4lb	No
6/7/23 15:29:59	Tukituki	Clear, good visability		Yes	Very fresh fish. Good silver rainbows	A few fish rising still. I'm getting a few trout
6/7/23 15:53:40	Tuki tuki	Clear, good visability	No	Yes	Mid
6/7/23 16:10:13	Mangaone, tukituki	Murky, medium levels of silt	Sorta	Yes	Nice sorta fat but it wasn’t dirty looking or skinny	The tukituki is really clean and caught a nice fat 3.5 pound rainbow
6/7/23 17:20:50	Tuki , waipawa	Murky, medium levels of silt	Have not bothered to even use my license to go fishing as the rivers have been dirty most of the year so far	No		Made comments under number 3
6/7/23 17:43:05	Tukituki	Murky, medium levels of silt	Yes	No
Start time	What river/s have your visited recently?	How clear was the water?	Did you find signs of invertebrate life?	Did you catch anything?	If Yes what was the condition of your catch?	Any other comments?
6/7/23 18:42:05	Tuki Tuki and Ngararoro rivers.	Murky, medium levels of silt	No nothing.	Yes	All fish have been skinny. And no food in there guts.	It appears a lot of fish were swept down the rivers during the flood. They are late in making their way back up river. A lot of small fish appear to have survived which is good to see. These were in the Tuki Tuki. I have fished the Ngararoro river when it was fishable but each time no fish were seen.
6/7/23 20:40:43		Murky, medium levels of silt	Yes I think	Yes	One was nice and fat the other was a bit skinny	Coming good
6/8/23 9:16:16	Tuki tuki	Clear, good visability	No	No
6/8/23 11:46:18	Tukituki	Murky, medium levels of silt	Yes	No
6/9/23 16:59:44	Tuki Tuki	Murky, medium levels of silt	No	Yes	Ok	River seems ok, not a lot of small fry around though. Fish caught where 1kg mark
6/13/23 8:12:03	Tukituji tukipo makeratu	Murky, medium levels of silt	Nah	Yes	Preety beaten up trout none of good size	can ya fix the tracks along the tukipo
6/13/23 10:29:34	Mangaonuku stream	Murky, medium levels of silt	No	No		Lots of weed along the banks and the river stones are very loose/soft
6/13/23 12:08:09	Ngaruroro	Clear, good visability	No	No	No	No
6/13/23 14:11:51	Tukipo	Clear, good visability	Yes	Yes	Good	No
6/13/23 17:04:23	Waipawa	Murky, medium levels of silt	Couldn't see	Yes	Poor slabby scarred	Hard to gauge numbers as too dirty
6/13/23 17:08:36	TUKI ROCHFORD RD	Clear, good visability	Yes	Yes	Good , 3 female rainbows, 1 x bird bite mark on back	Tutaekuri unfishable, ngaruroro up 2 whanawhana to murky, silty , any updates on access to the ohara?
6/13/23 23:07:17	Tukituki/Waipawa and a large amount of tribuataries	Murky, medium levels of silt	Yes, Mayfly Larvae and other larvae, possibly toe biters.	Yes	Variable, some trout large and fat, some looking to be struggling	Water condition is constantly variable, the mining on the river looks to be very damaging to the river bed. making for flatter river sections with less structure that does not promote healthy trout numbers. Also noted less of the endangered bird specie Shore Plover along stretches with river mining. Also - has still been good may fly hatches recently, trout of all size being caught and have also seen small bully and large flounder in the river

Start time	What river/s have your visited recently?	How clear was the water?	Did you find signs of invertebrate life?	Did you catch anything?	If Yes what was the condition of your catch?	Any other comments?
6/14/23 9:08:05	Tuki Tuki	Murky, medium levels of silt	No	Yes	Long and thin as if it was starving	I'm surprised that there are some good size fish in this river specially for the amount of water we've had.
6/14/23 16:51:11	Esk River	Muddy, high levels of silt	no	No		Hard to see this River coming back to what is was like before the cyclone
6/14/23 20:08:44	Tukipo	Clear, good visability	Plenty of trout, eels and freshwater crays	Yes	Healthy	I found that all the tributaries of main rivers recover quickly and fish are in good condition the bigger rivers are still holding fish but have been to dirty to fish recently
6/15/23 19:54:06	Tukipo	Clear, good visability	No	No		The stones are very slimy to walk on and there is some plastic debris. It was too slippery to wade around picking up the rubbish. The council have graded the piles of rocks where the river use to meander and the braiding is entirely opposite to what it was prior to Gabrielle. Some watercress is appearing but there are parts of green slime and brown slime.
6/18/23 7:57:39	Ngruroro	Clear, good visability	Yes	No		Please let them dredge our rivers so we don't loose our home and livelihoods. Living through this experience has been a night mare and it continues please consider people

River Condition Survey Post Cyclone Gabrielle

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