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ISSUE 9 OCT/NOV 2018

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SHARING

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WORKUP FISHING AGAINST THE CLOCK

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SPRING JOYS

CONTENTS 04 TIPS AND TRICKS FOR SHARING A BOAT 08 V8 SUPERSPRINTS – GEARING UP FOR NZ 10 CHRIS MARSH – PAVING HIS OWN PATH 14 SPRING HUNTING NECESSITIES

With lengthening days and bursts of new life, spring opens a wealth of opportunities for outdoors enthusiasts.

Recognising that spring also signals the start of a busy period for many tradies, the features in this edition of Rheem Off-site provide some handy tips to make the most of your outdoor pursuits.

Starting on page 4, the Bunting brothers discuss the ins-andouts of sharing a boat – an idea which many of us entertain but few put into practice.

Whether you share a boat, own a boat, or simply have a friend with a boat, it’s likely you’ll want to get a taste of the inevitable workup action around the northern coast this spring. Turn to page 18 to read Nick Jones’s advice aimed at helping anglers maximise their time on the water when hunting workups.

Keen hunters around New Zealand relish the chance to go out into the wilderness in spring. Barry Sharplin goes through his list of essential items for any hunting trip and provides a timely reminder that we can all contribute to pest control. See the story on page 14.

The subject of our Tradie Profile, starting on page 10, is Chris Marsh. He is a landscaper with a passion for the outdoors, doing regular fishing trips both off the rocks and on boats. He tells us a couple of good yarns and even provides a couple of handy DIY landscaping tips for readers.

Work hard and play hard this spring!

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FOR SHARING A BOAT Many of us have entertained the idea of sharing a boat with mates. The idea of pooling resources together to buy and maintain a better vessel is certainly appealing, but it’s not hard to foresee a few potential fishhooks.

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he Bunting brothers Kirk and Mitch, builders at Bunting Brothers Construction, and Adam, an ex-chef currently studying for an MBA - explain how sharing their 795 Extreme, Dawn Raid, works in practice.

Purchase & Build

With the purchase to be split evenly 3- three ways, the goal was to build the ultimate fishing machine so with that singular purpose we started the build journey. We were lucky that Kirk had previous experience skippering fishing boats and had excellent

ideas about how to improve on their fishability. In that sense Adam and Mitch were happy for Kirk to lead the build in conjunction with Woodbine Marine and the team at Extreme Boats. The build process was very involved with Kirk spending countless hours communicating back and forth with the various stakeholders in the build, but those hours were well spent as we’re still over the moon about the finished product.

Having said that, all key decisions were hashed out at length between all the boys and a majority rules voting system was installed. We’re

all key decisions were hashed out at length between all the boys and a majority rules voting system was installed.

glad we went with this system as we ended up with a unique black-onblack open cabin Extreme 795 that we love when the original plan was to have an enclosed wheelhouse. It must be noted that the vote on the boat’s name was not unanimous!

Sharing the boat in practice

Every year we decide by committee who has the boat for the major holiday periods whilst considering who had what the previous years.

We also factor in the weather - if someone gets unlucky with rubbish weather during their big

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Kirk with the boat’s biggest snapper (so far!)

holiday then that is taken into consideration. Outside the big holidays when the weather is good enough in the weekends, you can guarantee that one of the boys will have the boat out. It tends to work on a week by week by week basis, although if one brother misses out due to weather they have the first option the next week.

When you have the boat, you can crew it however you like and if you could use an extra body to share the cost of fuel on a big trip out wide, then the brothers are

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Adam enjoying the spacious cockpit

Sharing a boat helps split expensive costs – such as fuelling up!

the first port of call. We also take the boat out together as much as possible, especially after work during summer. Usually the goal of the trip is decided by committee in advance and then on the water Adam and Mitch are happy for Kirk to put us on the fish and enjoy some refreshing beverages at the same time.

We all have towing vehicles which is convenient for everyone, although Kirk and Mitch think Adam’s ‘ancient’ Landcruiser isn’t up to standard!

Fuelling-up Fuel costs are split evenly between the crew on the day. The boat must be topped up after each trip so that the next person can go for it in the early hours next time.

Fishing and boating gear

The game fishing gear is shared between all whilst day to day rods and reels are BYO (although for specific missions we are happy to lend our respective kit provided it comes back spotless). Tackle is

Tips & Tricks • Sharing is considerate to chance weather.

• Fuel costs are split evenly.

• Boat is re-fueled after use.

• Game fishing gear is shared by all • Tackle is bought in bulk.

• Skipper responsible for lost equipment.

• All costs for general boat equipment are shared. bought in bulk 2-3 times a year, split between all and stored on the boat. If expensive equipment like stickbaits are lost, then the skipper that lost them has to replace them.

All costs are shared when it comes to general boat equipment.

Maintenance and cleaning

The boat is expected to be spotless for the next person and this isn’t a problem for any of us, as we don’t mind pottering around on the boat. On a joint trip, cleaning and

• Maintenance costs are shared.

• Exemption from paying any dues if your overseas.

• Establish clearly defined rules and expectations.

Kirk and Mitch’s current building site at Leigh – complete with panoramic views of the Hauraki Gulf

filleting duties get split to allow for personal strengths and to get the job done as soon as possible.

In terms of maintenance, the cost

(not cheap!) and admin is shared between us. If one of us is overseas like Adam recently you’re not getting wet and therefore exempt from paying any dues.

Summing up

Dawn Raid has already travelled over 3000 nautical miles and sharing a boat works well for us because we’re family and it would be bloody expensive to do it by ourselves! If you aren’t family, we suggest establishing clearly defined rules and expectations so nobody ends up feeling aggrieved.

Kirk and mates busy catching kingfish out from Whitianga

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Chris Marsh PAVING HIS OWN PATH Chris Marsh is an Auckland-based landscaper and keen outdoorsman. He was drawn to landscaping during his university architecture studies and likes that it combines his design skills with his natural affinity for the outdoors and plants.

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hris founded his landscaping business, Greenroom Projects, in 2013. He hasn’t looked back since, growing his business and client-base whilst managing a small team of hard and soft landscape professionals.

Greenroom Projects manages landscape projects from start to finish providing design, planning, decking, fencing, retaining, paving, concreting, planting and maintenance services (to name a few!). From Chris’s perspective, being a small team of passionate people is an advantage as his clients get to talk to the people who are making the decisions and doing the work.

Chris was recommended by Auckland Landscape Supplies to create the Barfoot & Thompson sponsored ‘Street’ at the Auckland Home Show in 2015. The company has continued this role every year since, and he reckons the Home Show really boosted his company’s profile and led to a lot of business.

His success with the Home Show

‘Although Chris does his fair share of inshore livebaiting, softbaiting and straylining on his little Stabicraft, he never shies away from the opportunity to jump on larger and more ‘lavish’ vessels’

also led to Chris featuring on the TV One Series ‘Our First Home’ as a landscape garden judge – and after watching the footage (saved on Chris’s MySky box at his home) I can attest that he is a natural on camera and features a very cheesy grin.

Chris was approached by Mitre 10 in 2007 as a DIY personality to present their series of gardening and landscape videos. These are available to view on the Mitre 10 YouTube channel if you need some help in the garden or want to see that cheesy grin for yourself!

Aside form his busy landscaping enterprise, Chris loves packing up the ute with fishing gear and getting away from it all. Common destinations include the Bay of Islands, where his grandma owns a place, or the Coromandel. From these bases he normally hits the rocks or launches his little 389 Stabicraft.

Chris’s passion for landbased angling is obvious if you consider the lengths he and his mates go to in pursuit of finding the perfect spot. During their last annual Offsitenz

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October venture to Whangamumu on the Cape Brett peninsula (which they affectionately call ‘Rocktober’), the boys carried in a large Makita stereo complete with spare batteries to blast music, bushwhacked for hours in the dark, dived into rockpools to collect kina for burley, and slept on exposed promontories in tiny tents. These efforts were rewarded however, with some fine snapper engulfing their straylined baits as they swam

up the kina burley trail.

Although Chris does his fair share of inshore livebaiting, softbaiting and straylining on his little Stabicraft, he never shies away from the opportunity to jump on larger and more ‘lavish’ vessels.

He’s covered many nautical miles on yachts and loves cruising under sail – however he’s the first to admit he doesn’t really have a clue about how to sail as he just follows orders to pull this rope or turn that winch!

He remembers with a chuckle one yachting trip to Great Barrier Island especially well. On the start of that weekend, he and a bunch of mates left Auckland early in the evening and decided to motorsail all the way to Arid Island on the back coast of Great Barrier – an unforgiving distance of roughly 65 miles. Not only was the wind over 20 knots, there was a nasty wind-againsttide through the Colville Channel and the yacht was barely making 5

Chris’s passion for landbased angling is obvious if you consider the lengths he and his mates go to in pursuit of finding the perfect spot.

knots of speed. The fellas eventually made it to the anchorage at 4am, weary from their voyage and a bottle of Mt Gay rum. Chris recounts that one of the guys woke up at around 6am, full of eagerness to get underway again and jig up some kingfish. He obviously hadn’t checked the forecast, as by the time he single-handedly progressed to the kingi pins it was now blowing 25 knots. The rest of the boys including Chris were rolling around

in various states of ‘seasickness’ on the deck, and to add insult to injury not even a single kingi was on the chew! Luckily Chris says the trip did improve as they reached calm waters in Port Fitzroy and caught kingfish up to 15kg inside the harbour, slow-trolling livebait around huge schools of slimy mackerel.

In conjunction with his stories, Chris was also kind enough to offer up a couple of spring landscaping tips.

Landscaping tips • Give all your cherished plants a nice feed (such as fish frames!) so they can maximise on spring growth.

• Make sure to trim your hedges back hard before they put on their new burst of growth otherwise they will quickly grow in an unruly manner.

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Spring Hunting NECESSITIES

By Barry Sharplin

So where did winter go? It’s already time to fill the freezer with BBQ steaks and meat patties or find a stag before they drop their antlers - although most would have done so by the time you read this.

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oming into spring is one of my favourite times to hunt. Deer come out into the open on river flats and bush edges to graze on the spring growth and it puts them in prime eating condition. Accordingly, it’s a fitting time to discuss what gear you need to enjoy spring hunting and provide a reminder about pest control.

Necessities Before Accessories Make sure you have the basics in your pack before you fill it with junk. Apart from a rifle or bow and accompanying ammo, my list of important things is: • PLB If your PLB is past it’s expiry date, take it to your nearest sporting store. They should be able to send it away to get a fresh set of batteries installed and get it checked over. Do NOT activate it

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to see if it works - I know this may sound silly but it does happen!

Most have a test button for this purpose.

• GPS GPS familiarity is key. If you are technology impaired like me go for a simpler unit that will do what you need it to - tell you where you are and where to go. Be sure to practice with it at home before going into the bush otherwise you’re asking for trouble.

• Map and compass • Quality electrical tape Electrical tape has so many potential uses, including fixing a pair of shoes onsite, tying deer’s legs together, making a splint if you break or fracture anything, or taping cloth over a wound.

• Survival blanket • Two knives - one hunting knife and one small pocket knife If you have hunted for years, you’ll have a favourite that has the

perfect blade shape for you and performs a variety of tasks. I like the range of Svord Knives because of their good blade shapes and quality carbon steel, although being carbon you do have to look after them. Other good options are the well-priced Gerber and the Mercator - not a big knife but it holds a good edge and is low-profile.

Leatherman’s are also a handy pack knife incorporating other functions like pliers.

• Knife sharpener • Torch or headlamp I prefer a headlamp because it gives me at least one hand free to get home as normally the other has a rifle or bow in it. For me this is an area I don’t like to skimp on because you need to see at night to make your way back to camp! This is where a cheap headlamp may fail especially if it’s raining. I like the LED Lenser range as they offer a lot of torch for the money. My favourite

Good Spring growth helps stags grow great antlers.

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is the SEO 7 that has functions including dimmer, red light and offlock – handy to keep the headlamp off when it gets bumped in your pack.

• Spare new batteries for GPS and headlamp • Lighter and rubber in waterproof bag I like to keep much of my gear in waterproof snaplock bags just in case of a dunking. It also helps with the clean-up at the end of a hunt if everything is still clean and dry.

• A few extra rounds of ammo • Rope or baling twine • Muesli bars Of course, be sure everything is working and not going to let you down when you’re offsite in the wilderness. Also remember this list may vary according to the area that you want to hunt. For example, when hunting for tahr you might want extra rope some fold away crampons.

Now you have the necessities sorted go hard on the accessories and buy whatever you feel you need - just remember you’re the one carrying it!

Pest Control

Finally, I want to touch on pest control. A lot of us enjoy the native

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Jess with a possum

Essential kit

Pocket money

A bait station

flora and fauna in the bush or like duck or pheasant hunting – things which predators including feral cats, rats, mustelids and possums have a great bearing on. If all hunters put as much effort into pest control as they put into hunting game, our pest numbers would be a lot lower and we would see positive changes.

Learn from Google or talk to Fish & Game or DOC about different styles of pest traps and how to use them.

Go out possum shooting around landowners’ properties whom you

have permission from as often as possible. Remember kids love shooting possums even if it might not excite adults much. Create memories for them, ignite their passion for the outdoors, and help them make a bit of pocket money by plucking the fur warm. It’s all very well jumping on the keyboard and being anti 1080 but if you’re not doing your bit to control predators they’re not going to control themselves.

Happy and safe hunting all!

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Work-up Fishing Against the

CLOCK Spring has sprung and as the days lengthen, the weather improves and the soil dries, tradies around NZ become busier. Unfortunately, this spike in construction activity coincides with spring workup fever off the Northern coast, especially in the Hauraki Gulf.

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Using larger lures with an aggressive action can pay dividends around active workups

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ut don’t fret if you don’t have the ‘5-knot clause’ in your contract, because if you can maximise your time out on the briny you can probably both get the jobs done on dry land and experience the reward of spring workup action.

Bite times If you’ve only got a few hours to spare for your fishing trip, you really need to consider the factors

influencing whether the fish will be on the chew or not. Dolphins, gannets and fish tend to be more active when the current is flowing, and often you’ll find the fish feeding hard in the last hour or so before the slow period of inactivity over a tide change.

It’s a widely held belief amongst seasoned workup anglers, no doubt based on years of experience, that workup activity intensifies in the days leading up to both the new and the full moon. But beware, the fishing

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Gannets feeding off Kawau Island last spring

can sometimes be horrendous right on the new or especially the full moon – a phenomenon experienced by many fishers and one of life’s biggest mysteries!

Numerous anglers also swear by ‘fishing calendars’ – most of which reflect the solunar calendar which considers the moon’s position

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In the current on-line climate, it’s certainly not hard to find out roughly where the workups have been happening. In saying that,

on a calm day I recommend ditching the drogue - you’ll generally pass over more fish and your lures will be more appealing.

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Brooke Hannah caught this modest kingfish speed-jigging around the workups

more fish and your lures will be more appealing.

Other Tactics

fisherfolk tend to ‘inflate’ their trip reports and most are coy about exactly where and when the action was best, so take on-line information with a large grain of salt.

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If the fishing is cranking, target big fish with big lures

doing long drifts in the general area is your best bet. The fish will be there and having your gear in the water means you have the best change of snagging them.

Although drifting too quickly is certainly a hindrance when you’re out there fishing the workups, on a calm day I recommend ditching the drogue - you’ll generally pass over

•P re-rig your gear at home, thinking about what depths and conditions you’ll be fishing in.

•B e greedy - drag a bait or lure such as a heavily-weighted softbait or kabura in the rod holder while you actively fish another rod •C hoose soft-baits with the most action on the drop, such as the Gulp! Crazy Legs, or split the tail in standard models to enhance movement •O nce you’ve had a couple of drops back down, wind the lure quickly right up to the top for another full deployment - the very best time to get a fish is just after the lure has hit the bottom on that first drop • I f the fishing isn’t hot, err on the side of smaller lures • I f it isn’t working then mix it up – try different lures, actions and speeds to try find what’s working on the day • Find the ‘colour of the day’ – often the fish will prefer a certain paint job and this can change day-to-day • I f the fishing is cranking, target big fish with big lures •O nce the fish are on the bite, lures retrieved faster and brought higher up the water column can yield bigger specimens • S low-jig hooks are very small and easily pulled out of fish - reduce the pressure on them with a reasonably light drag setting and smooth action •H ave a stickbait set and a speedjig set ready to rumble as packs of kingfish are never far away from a good workup • I f you’re having trouble with kahawai, tie on heavier lures without fluttering actions to get down past the midwater kahawai schools • Take the boat to your work site to enable a quick escape!

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Whether you’re just starting out, growing your business, or taking a step back, the plumbing industry is nonstop. We’d know – Plumbing World is 100% Kiwi-owned by 100% real tradies.

It’s about backing your plumbing business in your office, on the tools, and into the future.

Talk to us about how you can earn MaxPoints on every purchase, and take the rewards even further by becoming a Plumbing World shareholder. plumbingworld.co.nz Your team in black.

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