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Scott Hyde with his PB 33kg White Island kingfish.

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The inReach and a number of the other products we are producing and selling are supported by the Iridium Satellite Network, the largest network providing voice and data, with 66 operational units. Each satellite can support 1100 phone calls simultaneously.

But where did it all start?

In October 1957, the Russians launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite in space. ‘Artificial’ due to the fact that, in scientific terms, real satellites are moons.

This triggered the space race between the US and the USSR, which ultimately resulted in the moon landing. Since then approximately 6,500 satellites have been launched from countries, worldwide. Of these, only 3,600 remain in space and only around 1,000 are still operational. That’s a lot of space junk.

And it can look as busy as Auckland peak hour traffic up there, with the odd collision from time to time.

Satellites need to travel at least 28,200 km/h just to stay in space. To generate enough power to be functional, they rely solely on energy from the sun, but are fully controlled from earth and sometimes are made to swerve to miss the multitudes of space junk.

There are three orbit levels for satellites.

Around half of the active satellites are situated around 500 kilometres above earth and support worldwide voice and data services.

This is where Iridium and its competitors hang out. Around fifty specialist GPS satellites operate approximately 20,000km above the earth and the remainder are geostationery satellites that sit around 36,000km out into space.

It’s amazing to think that the accuracy of being able to pinpoint fish to within a few metres, depends on information sent from the GPS Satellite network 20,000 km above us! Then to pick up the signal on Sky for the Black Caps World final, we needed to go out even further. TV broadcasting satellites hang around 36,000km, the furthest of all the commercial communication satellites, so they can stay in one place above the earth when they orbit. This means you don’t have to constantly go outside to move your Sky dish to follow the big game. Handy eh?

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TEN KILO Torpedo on

Opening Night

By Mark Pandelidis

Mark going soft on tuna.

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hooting out for a quick evening jig at a favourite reef, I was greeted with dead calm water and a view of the west coast of Wellington that is not always so benign. As I drifted over the foul, my attention was diverted by bird activity toward land, so I immediately though ‘kahawai’ and steamed directly toward them; a big stroppy kahawai would be the perfect live bait to entice a big kingie.

However, as I approached, the game plan suddenly changed.

Leaping clear of the water, the slender lines of an albacore tuna quickened the pulse and I wasted no time throttling back and employing the softbait gear.

My Shimano Sustain 5000 was rigged with 15lb braid, to which I tied a 30lb nylon leader with a FG knot. Doing the work for me at the business end was a 4” Z Man scented Paddler called ‘Opening Night’. As the boat coasted up to the workup, I cast ahead and commenced a slow retrieve - the boat gently drifting in toward the strike zone. The technique was pretty much a slow

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Then I hooked up and the fish exploded, putting up a good stoush. Albacore are designed for speed and, like all tuna, can accelerate quickly, which is exciting on the light gear. After a good bit of excitement, I boated my first albacore on softbait - a ten kilo torpedo! While there were plenty there, one for a feed was any amount for me, so I trundled back to the reef and spent a lovely evening jigging for kings.

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McLay CrossXovers Punch Above their Weight

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It’s hard to find a boat that pleases everyone – but the new McLay CrossXover range does a great job of combining functionality with aesthetics and comfort to keep both your mates and the missus happy!

He wants a strong rugged fishing machine that’s durable, easy to clean with room for all his mates, and she wants a classy looking boat with all the comforts for the family.

With its standout good looks and outstanding performance above its class, the new CrossXover range from McLay ticks all the boxes. The innovative CrossXover series offers the highest level of safety in its class by adding hundreds of litres of closed cell buoyancy foam in the gunwales running the full length of the boat. The buoyancy filled gunwales offer safety and stability like a pontoon boat, while maintaining the appealing aesthetics and space of a traditional mono-hull. Further to this, McLay have extended and sealed the rear transom shelf which provides more lift and support for the engine and offers greater stability at rest. This extra support at the rear of the boat makes a huge improvement to the ride and performance of the hull on the water

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The clever interior layout is spacious, with a large deck area, heaps of storage and a comfortable cuddy cabin for the kids, or for getting out of the elements. The luxurious interior trim and upholstery is to a standard normally only found in higher-end glass boats.The CrossXover series include lots of factory extras on most models, including lined interior, hydraulic steering, walkthrough transom, live bait tank, painted finish, king/queen seating and a cleverly designed additional bench seat in the rear of the boat that folds down to reveal access to large storage lockers.

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Salmon Stutter

By Brody Neil

It was Christmas holidays 2014. I was 6 years old. Dad asked me to go salmon fishing on the south side Rakaia mouth and I excitedly said yes, because I love fishing! When we got there, Dad’s friend, Marsh, was there and he already had a 20 pound salmon, which got me all excited because it was such a big fish.

We started to fish and I was doing lots of casts. I asked Dad if I could fish with his rod because I couldn’t catch one on mine. On the very first cast I got a bite. Dad told me to ‘strike and wind, strike and wind’. Wow, the fish was pulling lots. As it got closer we realised it was a kahawai, so I wound it in and Dad took the hook out and I released it. More casts later I got another bite and Dad yelled at me ‘strike and wind, strike and wind’. But it was another kahawai! By this time we had seen some other fishermen catch some salmon, so Dad told me to keep casting boy, which I did. Then I got another bite and Dad....’strike and wind, strike and wind’. This time it was really pulling on the rod so I kept winding and as the fish got closer Dad yelled out, “It’s a salmon!” I freaked out and wanted to give the rod back to Dad but he said, “You hooked it, you own it!” So I played the fish out with Dad’s help.

When I got it in I was so happy and excited, my first salmon ever!

All the other fishermen were cheering, clapping and shaking my hand. Wow! Dad was so proud of me.

Last weekend I caught my second salmon. I’m getting good at this!

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White Island Erupts with PB’s

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By Jason Neute

I’d heard a lot about Rick Pollock, a very respected charter skipper out of Whakatane, so when the opportunity came for mates and I to fish White Island with him aboard Pursuit, I was stoked. I was keen to try out my new Penn 25NLD2 lined with 50lb Penn super X coloured braid and also the new Penn 40NLD2 lined with 80lb braid. I’d matched the 25 to a Penn Fathom 15/24kg rod and the 40 was on the 24/37kg rod. I was anticipating serious action, so didn’t want to go in under-gunned.

We arrived at White Island around 10pm and promptly set about catching flying fish for live bait, attracted by the boat lights. It was a lot of fun scooping these kamikaze airborne bullets up with the net and it kept me amused until well into the early hours.

After brekky, Rick got us in amongst the schools of baitfish and John loaded up with his stick bait; the rod buckled over and the reel screamed, while John could only hang on.

Unfortunately, mid-fight, he dropped what Rick called a stonker of a fish.

I floated a dead flying fish and was in! BIG TIME. “Your 20kg king has just turned into a 200kg tackle breaker,” said Mark, the deckie.

I cranked my new Fathom 40 up, went to full sunset and leaned on the fish. After twenty harrowing minutes I had the beast at the boat. Rick was impressed with the reel after seeing the huge bronzy surface and following a quick cut with the knife from Mark, it was released with no harm.

Moving to avoid sharks taking big kingies, our first baits were immediately smashed. To start with they were only 1015kg fish but as more baits dropped, the fish got bigger, with some solid 20kilo fish coming over the side. For the rest of the morning it was bent rods screaming reels, with 20-36kg kings coming aboard.

By the end we had caught several fish over 20kg and a handful over 30kg. Most of the lads scored PB’s and all of the fish were tagged, except for two that were too far gut hooked.

It was an amazing experience aboard Pursuit to see how these fish are looked after for a successful release, from making sure the deck is wet to constant water flow through and over the fish.

My PB measured 140cm and Rick said it had 40kg written all over it a couple of weeks ago, but it had lost a few kilos after spawning so it weighed in at 36kg. It was the highlight of my trip.

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Elephant Hunting

By Phil Walsh

It was as a child my grandparents first took me fishing there. Ever since, the marine labyrinth flooding the top of our recreationally endowed island lures me back year after year with either family or a few cobbers. Almost exclusively it’s been snapper sought. Once a keen fisher is hooked on big cagey snapper, resisting conversion is as unnaturally difficult as it is plain silly.

A recent lull in success compelled me to consider other ways to improve one’s chances out on the big blue. While it is hard to beat the iconic jerky nod of Mr Snapper while rod fishing, it’s always a treat to catch an elephant fish. These are a welcome addition to catches in Queen Charlotte Sound. The prospect of setting a longline appealed. After scrutinising the fishing rules, I determined to make one up. Being a kite fisher in a previous life, I had acquired most of the components already and merely had to find some floats, buy a couple of grapnel anchors and remember how to tie a couple of long, since forgotten, knots.

hardened brine-gazers, being completely mesmerised by a melee of herring beneath the boat is all too common in this game. Being the only coherent soul on board, the all important role of fishing master was foist upon me. The better part of a further two hours was spent patiently counselling each of my mates in turn, prising rods from clenched hands, drawing their gaze to the horizon and speaking in reassuring tones and finally leading them away from ‘their spot’ at the side of the boat. Only then could I refocus the crew on what had become the afternoon’s objective.

Setting a longline in a gusty northerly is not an easy process. Wind has an overwhelming ability to create unwanted mayhem. Having pre-baited traces with a mixture of paddle crabs, squid and herring, the wind-induced chop quickly knitted them into a time-wasting tangle.

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The secluded bays in the south west of Queen Charlotte Sound are a traditional haunt.

Proximal to this fishing Mecca is Smith’s Farm Holiday Park. Well appointed accommodation with fish cleaning bench and BBQ at the ready, makes it an ideal base for a fishing trip. Our ever-obliging hosts, Chris and Barbara Faulls, ensured Richy, Dave (Horse), Nalin and I felt very welcome when we arrived in early March.

An element of expectation crept into my mood as we set about launching the boat the first morning. Minus the mighty power of the Seagull, Fisher 3 groaned under a hefty load.

At displacement speed, we resigned ourselves to a leisurely splutter across the Sound and anchored up at a spot opposite Momorangi Bay. Time to catch some bait. Within a few minutes the boys were revelling in the atavistic splendour herring fishing presents. After a productive hour, I quietly reminded the crew of our primary objective. My suggestion to wind in lines was either subtly ignored or met with vague mumbles.

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Miraculously, the last anchor, then buoy was overboard. The line was set. After a spell to recuperate from our ordeals, Nalin joined Horse and I to retrieve the longline. The stiff northerly had abated and we stumbled upon a workable system of retrieval. Trace after trace came on board, along with an unappetising mix of spiny dogfish, skate and carpet sharks.

Our confidence took a clobbering as the last few traces came up from the depths. Then Nalin spotted a silver flash down deep, instantly raising our hopes. Ever wishful, we were delighted to make out the broad fins of not one but three gorgeous elephant fish. Not wanting to lose them at the boat, Nalin scooped them up one at a time in the landing net. A volley of yahoos shot across to Richy fishing quietly from the shore. Objective realised.

Though we failed to catch any snapper on the trip we were very pleased with our efforts and dined on fresh fish for the next two nights.

Goes to show, new ideas are always worth a crack.

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Paul retired to Oamaru from Australia three-years-ago and lives for trout fishing, averaging three days per week on the water.

“I’d fish more often but I’ve learned that there’s not a lot of pleasure to be gained from fishing in a gale, so I pick my weather.

Paul predominantly spins for trout using light tackle: the 34lber he caught prior to Christmas was taken on 6lb line and released, as is over 90% of his catch. He is attracted to the sport because he enjoys the clean cold water environment trout live in and marvels that they can be caught from the estuary to the mountain headwaters and at all points in between. He fishes the Kakanui and Waihao estuaries from a kayak, enjoys lake fishing and also spends a lot of time fishing the canals around Tekapo.

That is where he enjoys a good deal of success and in the past three seasons, he has accounted for 1450 trout and salmon - all canal salmon - and even releases most of his salmon as well.

“Last season I landed over 80 salmon and only kept about six!”

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A Most Complicated Catch

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By Mary Garner

Salmon Season

With the weather looking good for an overnight fish on The Secret Spot - hint, Pelorus Sound - a good catch was anticipated but Murray got more than expected.

There he sat, a rod out both sides of the boat, the berley trail working, when he hooked into a 5-6ft, seven gill shark. The shark swam under the boat, around the other line and back out the other side of the boat again, resulting in both lines being caught up.

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he was able to hook the bight of the non shark line and pass the rod under it to clear the tangle. The shark was still there but now safe on one side of the boat.

A minute later, the other released line started peeling out. Knowing he only had a seven gill shark on the first line, he lightened up the drag, placed the rod in the holder and turned his attention to rod two. This was the most pleasing result, a 23lb snapper.

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Murray Garner with ‘Stumpy’ the snapper!

I’ve had two trips down to Lake Mapourika in South Westland in the last three weeks. Both times the weather has been hot and very little wind. Perfect.

The first trip. There were about 9-10 boats fishing, 10 salmon were caught on the Saturday I heard of and I did see one being netted.

Alas, only a stinky, slimy eel with beady little eyes for me, which I didn’t want in my boat and I really did like the lure he had in his mouth, so something had to give. It felt good putting the lure back into the tackle box and the hammer back under the seat.

Second trip. I was surprised as I weaved my way up the channel to see only one other boat out fishing on the first day. As the daylight hours increased, a few more arrived.

At 1:00pm, I landed the first salmon for my boat this season, a small dark hen about 6.5lb.

‘Whoop whoop,’ I was happy.

With the net back in the cabin I settled back into it and I’d only travelled 300 metres and

the rod bent again. As I wound it in, reaching to click the ‘nipplely’ thing on the net, keeping the rod up and pressure on, I managed to net a beautiful 11lb hen. Nice and shiny, with a deep belly. I felt pretty special with that. The guy with the fly rod at the shore called out a yahoo, which wasn’t quite as loud as mine.

The next day, there were only two serious boats that did the daylight to dark fishing and they were Pat and Karen Burrows and me. They hit the water 10-15 minutes before me and as I pulled up alongside them Karen called excitedly, “I GOT ONE!” Yay, celebrations all round.

“ALREADY, hell that was quick!” was my shouted reply.

Time passed slowly, each time we’d pass each other we’d yell what we had seen, or how many lures Pat had lost. I think it was about 3.00pm when I had another fish on. Another hen which had more will to stay in the lake than the others and she weighed 7lb.

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Captain’s Log: Beam me up spotty

Officially Number One Since the very first issue, The Fishing Paper developed a life of its own and I quickly learned I had a tiger by the tail. From day one, readers embraced the paper and made it their own. While I started with fixed ideas about how I wanted to progress the paper, these immediately flew out the window when I recognised it was an organic beast and one of its greatest strengths is that it just comes together each month; we place the ads and then fill the gaps with stories that fit!

The combination of readers’ stories and regular columns from my hand-picked editorial team have proved a winner in more ways than you might imagine. With our tenth anniversary approaching this year, we decided to get officially audited for the first time and the results, released last month, were staggering. According to ABC Audit, The Fishing Paper & New Zealand Hunting News is the largest fishing, hunting and outdoor publication by circulation in New Zealand by a country mile! Our official monthly circulation of 20,500 is thousands ahead of our nearest rival but it is another number that has us excited.

ABC Audit shows that The Fishing Paper & New Zealand Hunting News achieves an official pick up rate of 97%, which, in the print media, is staggering and a testament to the loyalty of our readers. It is also great news for our advertisers because we buck the trend. In an era when paid for publications are losing thousands of circulation every year and only sell 50-60% of their print run, The Fishing Paper & New Zealand Hunting News is top of the popularity stakes and a very effective medium for advertising.

So thank you, each and every one of you, for making us number one. Thank you also, to our advertisers who bring you the paper every month, and hats off to my editorial team for producing the goods for a decade, especially Ron, who has been my right hand man for the duration.

Oh, and thanks Annette for staying married to me for 16-years this year: I guess that makes you my number one!

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enjoy success on her first outing and without injury! She is pictured having plucked up the courage to hold her first fish, a rainbow trout, taken from Lake Lyndon, Canterbury.

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The grin says it all... Craig is into his bird watching!.

Watching

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On the south east corner of Lake Tekapo, close to the township, you can see Canada geese feeding on the shallow weed beds. Weed beds mean trout. Cockabullies are also abundant along the edge of Pine Beach and we had access to the beach from the NZMCA camp where we were parked amongst the trees.

On the first morning, I put my kayak on its trolley and took it down to the beach. A light wind was blowing, it was a fine day and the view was magnificent. I tied a floating rainbow Rapala to my line and secured the rod to the kayak.

Then I placed my huge canvas haversack on the decking with its flap on my seat. There was a woven bag stuffed into the haversack.

I launched the kayak and circled the small island in the bay and made a beeline for some shags perched on a large rock. They are another indicator of the presence of trout.

When they flew off I followed them at a leisurely pace, admiring the scenery as I worked the water off the shoreline.

A few minutes later my rod bent and there was a splash behind me. Then the fish went deep and it took a while to bring to the surface. It was a brown trout and it ducked under the kayak a couple of times before I was able to net it. Then I discovered I was sitting on the sack. It was

awkward freeing it but I had no trouble getting the fish into the sack and safely stowed away in the haversack.

My prize had delicious orange flesh and I enjoyed every mouthful. It is worth bird spotting, because where there are birds you usually find fish.

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I set myself the double challenge of using some ingredients from Guyton’s store to create the recipe - they sell heaps more than just fish - and I opted to bake the fish. The results were stunning. If you wish to try this amazing recipe and don’t live near a Guyton’s store, you can access everything via a friendly phone call - check out their ad below.

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One Bite One Fish

Kayaking with Chris West

By Paddy Connor

Dealing with Capsize: Part 3 Last month I looked at getting back on your kayak following capsize. Some people will struggle to get on using the method I described, so if this is you, read on.

If you struggle to pull yourself onto the deck of your kayak, you can gain an advantage using a foot loop. Many kayaks have side carry handles and this is a great place to attach a loop that can be used as a step. To make the step, tie a 2.5m length of 5mm cord to form a loop and keep this on your kayak or in your PFD pocket. When attached to the kayak’s side handle, you have a loop you can step into and gain the elevation needed to get onto the deck. The length of the loop is important, too low and you won’t get high enough, while too high becomes difficult to step into. Have a practice and adjust the loop until the step is just the right height. Once on the deck of the kayak, follow the same process I described last week to swivel into a seated position.

Using a foot loop will help you to get onto the deck but it will possibly capsize your kayak in the process. In order to increase stability, you can create an outrigger using your paddle and a paddle float. Attach a paddle float to one end of your paddle. Next, place the paddle across your kayak at 90 degrees and secure it in place so that the paddle ‘sticks out’ on one side. The float can either be inflatable, or foam. Foam is great, because it will still work even after being hooked or cut. With the outrigger and foot loop attached - on the same side of the kayak - you will be able to climb back onto the deck of your kayak. Remove the gear you have attached to the kayak, remove the paddle float and continue paddling.

Check out our website for pictures of this and last month’s process in action.

It took me four hours and one bite to finally catch this nice 38cm snapper from the Glen in early March. My mate Col and I were kayak fishing just outside the local marine reserve. Luckily the current was flowing in towards the reserve so our berley was doing its job. But the snapper weren’t.

Marine life was bubbling everywhere around us, but our reels remained silent. All it took was one solid gulp from this unlucky fellow and he was on my hook. I played him carefully and got him on board as I didn’t want to wait another four hours. Yeah right, fishing for four hours in paradise - ‘first world problem’.

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Moose - A Candle in the Wind!

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In Sweden, moose hunts are driven: a carefully choreographed and wellexecuted dance of dogs, masters and strategically positioned hunters.

Hunt Master Kenneth with Crimpy’s moose.

“Goodbye Norma Jean… And it seems to me you lived your life like a candle in the wind…”

Elton John was singing about the tragic life of Marilyn Monroe, the ‘blonde’ bombshell who erupted onto the stage of American popular culture in the fifties and stole the hearts of a nation, a baseball player and a president.

I was courting a Norma of another kind: Swedish and full of seductive curves, fine lines and enough sass to sizzle an egg in the snow. My Norma was the internationally recognised ammunition brand and I was in Sweden, as a guest of the company, to hunt moose!

The Norma Moose Hunts are legendary within the trade and while ostensibly a meat hunt, I was to learn the event was more of a celebration: part ritual, part tradition, part hunting spirit and many parts bonhomie and camaraderie.

However, it is not all aquavit, saunas and drinking chants although that little ménage à trois certainly seemed the life of the lodge party after each hunt - as safety ruled supreme. Preceding the field work was a visit to the Norma range where each of the dozen guests had to prove their capabilities on a running moose target at 100m. I was equipped with a classic moose calibre, a 30.06

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INTERNATIONAL mounted with a Swarovski Z6i 1.7 - 10x42 - the illuminated reticle ideal for the low-light conditions of Scandinavia - and have to confess to feeling a might relieved when I didn’t disgrace myself, killing the ‘target’ with at least some of my shots. Note to self: if you see a moose - keep shooting!

In Sweden, moose hunts are driven: a carefully choreographed and well-executed dance of dogs, masters and strategically positioned hunters, but it is by no means unchallenging. First up, hunters randomly draw ‘stands’, so an element of luck influences the outcome of each hunt. A ‘stand’ can be anything from a prominent knoll overlooking a vast tract of swamp, to a straggly sapling on the side of a logging road, and the shooting corridor can be as narrow as 45 degrees or as wide as 360, depending on the terrain and proximity of other hunters. For the duration of the hunt, hunters are required to stay within 2m of their stand for safety reasons and this is strictly enforced. Hunts can last an hour or for several hours, so we were supplied coffee and snacks to mitigate against the snow and cold, and equipped with radios and headsets to keep us connected as the hunt unfolded.

The region is divided into hunting blocks, which can be as small as a few acres or an expanse that covers many square kilometres.

The hunts are directed by the Hunt Master, who, in our case, was Kenneth Skoglund, a softly spoken chap who gave us regular updates via radio as the action unfolded.

“Hunters - the dogs have put up a cow and calf. They are heading west so hunters on stands 13, 14, and 18 be ready… Louis - STAY ON YOUR STAND!” You’ll hear more of Louis later!

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... it pays to remain alert because, despite their huge size, moose can ghost through the forest like the ephemeral wisp of smoke and just as silently ... explained during the briefing, the dog handlers work the block.

Our team comprised Norma staff, Kenneth Skoglund with Igor, Amund Skoglund with Romplösa and Anders Brolund with Bella.

The dogs are Jämthund, a breed recognized in the 1950’s, which is a mix between Norwegian Moose Dog and Siberian Husky.

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located but it is stationary; probably eyeballing the mutt with distain. When things go quiet or stay quiet, that is when your hunting senses are piqued, for a silent dog means the moose is on the move and could be coming your way, dog trotting at the rear.

And it pays to remain alert because, despite their huge size, moose can ghost through the forest like the ephemeral wisp of smoke and just as silently, as I was to find out on the very last hunt of the week.

Moose are managed game animals and a strict quota of bulls, cows and calves given each season and for each area. In some areas all three were on quota, while other areas may be confined to bulls only or a combination of the three. The determining factor of what we could shoot was the state of the quota, so you needed your wits about you. For example, on one block we could take a bull, two cows and one calf: one hunter fired at a calf but was unsure if he connected, so the calf was immediately ‘off quota’ until the kill confirmed or otherwise.

Because of hunting pressure and predation from wolves, the bulls in Southern Sweden do not grow to trophy class, but, given the situation, that in itself made any set of antlers a prized trophy and something we all hungered for. Competition was silent and intense. Except in the case of Louis. Louis was a South African who was only loud whenever his lips moved.

“Bliddy Hull - I want me a bull moose sew bed I’ll run the fokker down if I haf to!”

“Louis… STAY ON YOUR STAND!” “Fokker!”

Round one proved to be a teaser. We were hunting Martisfjäll, an

Peter Carr of England ‘chasing moose with lead’.

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With stands drawn against a leaden Scandinavian dawn, Rebecka Bergqvist and I trudged along the bog-tinged disused logging track to our respective positions on day two. Rebecka is a rising talent in competitive skeet shooting but she is equally at home with rifle in hand, having been raised in a hunting family. I nodded towards a dense thicket of saplings as we climbed toward the forest proper: “Looks like a good spot for a big old bull, eh!”

We parted company at the top of the rise, Rebecka heading deeper into the forest while my stand was only 80m from the thicket. I mention this because, the moment the hunt started, Igor started barking below me, smack in the middle of Mr Bull’s bedroom.

Barking meant a stationary moose so I readied myself and awaited silence: the moment the moose broke cover he’d present me with a flat screen TV target and it was while I was contemplating this armchair moment that a quiet settled over Sweden. Anticipating

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the shot, I raised the 30.06 to my shoulder but thunder cannoned through the forest well before I stroked the trigger. Kenneth, the Hunt Master, took what turned out to be the biggest bull of the hunt as it broke back past the dog and so, it was Team Norma 1… guest nil.

After a restorative lunch of piping hot soup, charged into life by a portable wood fire, the hunting continued, friendships were cemented and the chill was kept at bay by banter-charged laughter.

The day eventually closed with three moose on the hook - all shot by the hosts. Anders followed up Kenneth’s bull with a spiker and Amund put a calf on the ground.

However, spirits were again high at the lodge that night as aquavit thickened the tongue and toasts flowed. I thanked my hosts for the experience thus far and reflected that it was the deep sense of tradition that embraced European hunting that I found most appealing. I reminded them that we too have customs and traditions in New Zealand.

“In our country,” I charged, “it is customary for the guides to let the clients shoot the animals!”

That set Louis off, his tongue now flickering like a candle in the wind... MOOSE!

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Tusker in Tiger Country

By Daniel Smith

Nick, Rich and I were up early to beat the heat.

The guys were keen to get up high on the hill to where there had been some pig sign left in the last few days. The dogs agreed and searched away above the track in the scrubby native. There had been something there recently but the dogs came back and we carried on higher toward ‘tiger country.’

Without getting excited, two dogs slowly started heading down from the track and split up in

opposite directions below us. This was a good sign but at the same time we were getting nervous, knowing they were heading to a very deep, steep and entirely un-tracked creek, littered with vertical drops.

My hardest dog and only male in my pack started a steady bail - very unlike him - unless he’s in a tight spot without a good chance to try and hold. His sister, who finds the majority of the pigs and prefers to bail, made it to the scene before we knew it and the gully was alive with the echoing of barking. This was a surprise, the only encouragement Mahi usually needs to go in and hold is a bit of back up from his sister Bear, or a moment of distraction while the other dog takes the attention off him for a second.

The bailing continued! Hunters’ music! There was just one more dog to get there and ‘mighty’ Mouse, fitted with a small video camera on her collar, was just seconds from the action. This would tell us if it was a reasonable pig or not. Mouse was cautious as she approached and as the footage on the GoPro camera later showed, filed in beside the fearless Mahi to take her position in the bail. This was just magic to hear as I skidded, fell and smashed as

www.thefishingpaper.co.nz quietly as possible down through the scrub to the battle. The only problem in my head now was - no gun.

These dogs generally held everything they bailed when I got there or back up arrived. But there was no back up today, just three dogs and a pet that hadn’t seen many pigs and wasn’t keen to mix it with tusky, mountain muscle rockets. The bail was settled and as I approached I started to get very nervous. The ground was quite open and the dogs were quite spread out on small ledges of rock and a steep drop, with dried out waterfalls only 50 metres below, and a roaring waterfall creek 150 metres below the bluffs. As I got the first glimpse of the pig, he saw me and charged at the dogs – “HOLD HIM DOGS!” Then they were all in. I hung on the tail like the fourth holder and slid the blade in behind the shoulder as we skidded down the shingle face.

Nick was there within seconds and we looked the dogs over to check for damage, a few small rips and pokes but all dogs happy to hunt some more.

I didn’t like that idea, with the 250 metre carry, back up through steep scrub and the bluffs below us. I politely asked the dogs to stay in heel as we started the carry out. No deal said the dogs and off they went and nailed a 50lber as it tried to run past 50 metres away. I handed Nick my knife as I had the pig on my back and asked if he could put the small pig out of its pain. He declined having never stuck a pig before so I gave him the boar and headed to the squeal. “Let it go!” The dogs all let go as I stepped forward to grab the screamer.

Then it all went to custard. I thought I had walked into stinging nettle and could feel burning jabs, until I realised I was being stung by wasps. I ran downhill dropping my knife, GPS and frantically fighting my way out of my jacket and layers of clothes.

I was swarmed and getting nailed on the head and hands. I yelled to

Nick, knowing I could go down or fall over a drop trying to escape the frenzied wasps. He dropped the first pig and came running to help. When I’d got the wasps off I was throbbing and pretty wild I had just lost my GPS and knife. We searched cautiously through agitated wasps for the knife and tracking unit. Nick with less throbbing than me, became my hero for finding both. We backtracked to where he’d ‘carefully placed’ the first boar, to see marks down the hill where it had rolled out of sight down a steep chute and over a 30 metre bluff.

I was exhausted - throbbing head and hands and now no pig to take out. We did our best to joke our way down to a coffee at the hut to ease our frustration. I tried my best to convince Rich and Nick to come back and help retrieve the boar. Nick had to work and Richard wasn’t keen to go down the bluffs. Back down from the top, 280 metres as the crow flies was the only feasible option. I grabbed a tie down strop to go over the bluff with if I couldn’t find a safe way around it and committed to finding this bacon.

The ties we used to strap the legs of the boar into a backpack had broken off in the tumble off the bluff, so I used my greenstone necklace when I got down to the pig to get it back on my back and struggled for a good hour climbing it back to the track.

Now I was happier, the stings, lost and found gear and few bruises from falling through gnarly country were now worth it with a 111lb boar on the hook for the butcher.

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Spotting TB in Deer this Roar As the stags roar this season, it’s essential you take extra care should you shoot a deer that has identifiable bovine tuberculosis (TB) lesions.

While cutting up your prized catch, check for any pus-filled sacs (known as lesions), which are likely to indicate the deer is TB-infected.

The lesions are usually found in the head, lungs and gut of the animal. They vary in size and appearance, so it is important that you know how to spot one.

Look out for any cream-coloured abscesses or white, gritty lesions that may be a few millimetres to several centimetres in diameter. If you come across anything that looks suspiciously like bovine TB in an animal, protect yourself so you don’t become infected yourself and do not let your dogs near the remains.

The chances are low, but it is possible to get TB by handling infected animals or their carcasses. To avoid this risk, always make sure you initially try to clean your knife and other gear after working with a potentially TB-infected carcass. Then thoroughly wash your hands and clothing and disinfect your knives and gear with Dettol, or something similar, as soon as possible once you’re out of the bush.

If you cut the TB-infected animal up at the kill site, ideally bury the offal in a deep hole or at least cover it with rocks and logs to minimise the chances of it being scavenged by wild animals, mainly possums and ferrets. This will help prevent wild animals from eating the remains and becoming infected with the disease. In TB risk areas, possums are responsible for the majority of new herd infections in farmed cattle and deer.

While infected wild deer are highly unlikely to pass the disease onto farmed livestock, they are good indicators of whether bovine TB is present in the area’s other wild animals, providing OSPRI’s TBfree programme with useful information on locations where the disease has been found.

So before you thoroughly dispose of the infected wild deer offal, take a small sample of the suspect looking lesion, wrap it in plastic or place it in a container and note the area where you shot the animal. Once home, place the sample in several plastic bags and freeze it immediately, keeping it away from all other food. Contact your local OSPRI office or freephone 0800 482 4636 to report the location of the kill site and we will arrange to pick up the sample.

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Ammunition Manufacturers Still Suffering Jet-lag

By Paul Clark - New Zealand Ammo

No matter who you fly with or how fast it goes, military jets excepted, you can expect 27 hours of actual flying time each way when you visit the IWA Outdoor Classic in Nuremburg, from NZ. The joy of business travel, contrary to popular belief, is not endless champagne and dancing girls on each leg. More like a long campaign, jetlag and playing catch-up!

The IWA Outdoor Classic, the European version of the American SHOT Show, is a huge trade show featuring firearms, shooting accessories and ammunition, and it is also a great opportunity to

definitely food for thought.

Another trend, again following the good old US of A, sees a lot more women holding positions of responsibility within the firearms industry, like sales and or product managers. Guys, like it or not, the girls are coming so you will just have to get used to it.

So what was really new? To be honest, not much. The industry is still playing catch up with product availability. For example, one well-known European small arms munitions manufacturer

keep abreast of global trends and issues that might affect us here.

Friday is always start day and, as usual, the show visitors were lined up more than ten deep waiting for the 9.00am official opening. The crowd resembled a large All Black scrum as the doors opened and people spilled into the 160,000 square metre Messe venue, which hosts around 50,000 people over the few days of the exhibition.

Following on from and expanding the trend that I saw at the January SHOT Show, AR15 firearm systems rule supreme. Sure, many countries restrict civilian ownership, but that doesn’t mean people don’t want them. Even Merkel, a very traditional German firearms manufacturer, exhibited several new AR15 Model firearms:

had already pre-sold its entire production of .22LR ammunition for the year, prior to March. In this respect, the US market still seems to resemble a giant vacuum cleaner, sucking up ammunition and components wherever it can find them. Likely to further exacerbate the situation is the forthcoming US Armed Services tender for a new handgun to replace the existing Beretta 9mm currently in service. The estimated initial quantity required 550,000 units plus spares.

While backorders from manufactures are still common across the industry, the current industry consensus is that, overall, 2016 should see some stability in the industry. Then it will be time to bring out the dancing girls!

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Bubble and Squeak

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By Kim Swan

They enter through the hut doorway, very civilised. But they don’t knock, and they don’t open the door; instead, they scamper through the gap which also admits a sub-zero chill. Apparently rodent-word has spread far and wide that this backcountry abode is an autumnal party house: “Come one, come all”.

Come they do - pestilent plagues of field mice.

Orientation week antics for young mice? There’s half-chewed tucker strewn across the bench, there’s punch-ups and there’s hair-pulling, along with lots of excited squeaking. Mickey’s just shagged an underage female while Mini is chewing up toilet paper to build a nest. Danger Mouse is drunk and showing off. He takes great joy in scaling the hut’s exposed infrastructure. He falls - splat - broken tooth, split lip.

I get in from work at 3.00am, sleep would be nice. Mice don’t sleep at 3.00am, so nor do I. My mattress is on the floor, Mickey is gnawing a grass seed nearby. Mini tentatively nibbles my pillow, testing its potential as nesting material.

Poison you may suggest. Yup, its everywhere.

Mighty Mouse is trying to drag a whole bait out the door right now. As yet the only effect of the poison is to turn all the mouse droppings green.

There’s pretty greeny-blue cigar-shaped pooh on every flat surface throughout the hut.

At 6:30am I sleepily consume breakfast. The

pedestal-type dining table is the only mouseproof place in the hut so I eat with my plate squeezed between magazines, muesli bars, candles, clean socks and underpants. Then its out the door with hunting chaps on, rifle slung, tracking gear tuned and bloodshot eyeballs battling to see from under drooping eyelids.

Anecdotal evidence has it that there’s a big multi-hued boar out yonder. He’s ‘the one that got away’ from a pig hunter or two. Yeah so, yawn.

Its been a long, dry summer for the likes of myself, forests have been closed and farmland parched and barren. So I shrug off the boar stories. I’d like nothing more than a walk with my canine mates, some fresh pig sign if I’m lucky, a scent trail upon dewy grass perhaps. A pig, any pig, would end our summer ‘dry’.

We walk, Gin, Pearl and I, and walk and walk.

We hunt hard. We search for rooting which is not crusty, a mark which is not dusty, a pooh which is still dark and moist. We zig and we zag from brown bracken fern to green grass creek. We walk till the sun is up and we’re sweating and puffing aloud.

In yonder secluded gully both dogs’ body language finally changes. Noses high they venture off at pace. Pearl is bouncing stiff-legged, pogo-like, through the long rank grass. Down in the bracken she proffers up her squeaky bark.

Gin promptly backs her up. A quick ruckus. A steady aggressive bail!

Perhaps, like me, Boris was half-asleep and has been taken by surprise. Or perhaps the bitches courteous greetings allay his adrenal urge to flee.

He tries to leave his bedroom just once but the girls block his doorway and they ask him politely to stay.

Boris is still wiping sleepy dust from his eyes when I sneak on in. Crickey he is impressive, a camo-clad big-fella who’s whetting his tusks and wetting the bed - emptying his bladder in

preparation for the sprint he has in mind.

Seriously concerned about the scent of a nearby human, Boris charges out of the bracken and has a crack at the dogs. Undaunted, they turn him back.

I’m five metres off when Boris eyeballs me. He senses danger but does not know he’s already looking down the barrel of a gun. Seconds pass till Gin and Pearl both clear my line of sight. A couple of fern fronds aren’t screen enough to prevent the 7mm-08 from doing its business.

Brain splatter sprays the surroundings as both bitches jump in for a bite of boar. Bubbling over with our success we’re all too keen to snatch our moment of glory. Its been a long dry summer with pig hunts few and far between, but the drought has finally been broken.

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Trading Skyscrapers for a Ridge Line

By Aaron Shields

Rylee Sutherland is not kidding when she says she knows how to shoot!

Dad and Daughter Bag a Billy

By Ian Sutherland

Being a very keen hunter and a father of two little girls, you can understand when I asked my daughter what we are doing this afternoon and get back, “Can we go goat shooting Daddy?”

That’s it we’re off! I knew there had been a few cheeky buggers poking around the top of our farm, so figured there would be a good place to start. I also had a new Tikka 7mm Rem Magnum that hadn’t shot anything other than paper, so it was a good chance to give it a test run before I try it on deer.

As you can imagine, the biggest issue I could see would be how to keep a six-year-old quiet to get close enough to take a clean shot! We headed off in the trusty Nissan, stopping well short so as not to scare them with vehicle noise. Jumping out I noticed we had the wind in our face, which is what you need. We quietly snuck up the race and I could see a goat in the paddock. I pointed it out to Rylee with a very quiet voice, “Look, there’s one.”

With all her excitement she couldn’t help but

blurt out, “Where, where I can’t see it Dad?” We had to stop and have a bit of a chat and explained to her if Mr Goat hears us, he will head for the hills, never to be seen again.

Now we’re on the same page again, we headed up the side of a row of rocks, which meant an easy stalk. We couldn’t see the goat, nor could he see us. I decided we should be close enough, so put out the bi-pod ready to rest on the top of a handy rock. I got Rylee to come sit beside me opposite side to the gun - as we peered over we noticed Mr Goat was heading into the bush!

With a mad rush I got Rylee to block her ears, even though it is suppressed. I quickly took aim on the moving target and squeezed off a shot …farwoocckk, was the noise we heard back.

“Mmm, by the sounds of that, it’s one dead goat Rylee,” I told her. Next was the photo session, as Rylee had to show mum what we had caught.

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I slowly peeked over the edge of a bluff into the steep basin below me. I didn’t have time to scan with the binoculars as the red coat of a stag directly below me stood out like dogs’ you know what.

I raised my scope and counted: 4 - 6 - 8 -10 - 12 - 14! A massive animal standing there with the last of the evening sun on his back as he stared down the valley over his kingdom. As I watched, captivated by his presence, two more mature stags bounded out of the bush some 300m below the big fella.

They too were impressive animals, one especially that was worthy of hanging on the wall. I dropped the binoculars and turned to my best mate - his eyes were popping out of his head and his grin was something I’ll never forget.

Nine stags in one small basin in prime condition - what we had been searching for all day.

I put my binos back up and examined the 14 pointer for 15 minutes - he was the animal I was to take. I set up in comfortable prone position in a slight crevice leading off the vertical drop, half my gun suspended in mid air. The stag

Aaron with a ‘skyscraper’ of a stag.

was directly below the sharp ridge we had been hunting down all evening - I knew I had to take into account the angle of the shot and cursed my old man for the umpteenth time that day for borrowing my range finder only to not return it when I had come down for the Christmas hunt. Up or down…which way do I adjust my holdover… I couldn’t remember and the frustration was building as the stag stood broad side below me - my cross hairs square in his front

shoulder.

I steadied my breathing - boomfa! The shot hit him high - almost missing him altogether but he was down! I leapt into the air yahooing! A year of living in the big smoke in Auckland had resulted in a deep longing for the wide open spaces and snow capped mountains I used to call home.

As I stood there on that rock ledge knowing what lay below me, I knew I had reset the clock for another year; can’t wait until next time!

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“We have had one buck shot already that scored 258 Douglas Score and there are more similar ones waiting for keen trophy hunters, and some that possibly might go bigger!”

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From Sinker to Smoker

The master taught this school shark a lesson.

By Ron Prestage

Successful Surfcaster: Karl Blick Blenheim resident, Karl is a very successful fisher of the Marlborough area.

The Fishing Paper: What is your first memory of fishing?

Karl: First memories mainly involved eeling and catching crawlies but I did spend some time catching spotties off the jetties at Anakiwa and the Grove.

TFP: What stages have you passed through on your fishing journey?

Karl: Well I’ve gone from catching nothing more than red cod and spiky dogs and going home empty handed to the stage where I now pay attention to weather, tides and seasons and being able to focus on targeting a variety of fish with different techniques and then heading home with a feed of fresh fish.

TFP: What has been your most successful day surfcasting?

Karl: If I had to pick one it would be a day probably close to a decade ago when I was still fairly new to the game. I had never caught a seven gill shark before and had been told of a beach where we would have a good chance of finding them.

A mate and I bee-lined it for this new spot and between us we landed and released seven sharks all over 6ft in length.

We had a bloody good time and have never come close to that tally since.

TFP: What is your favoured rig for surfcasting?

Karl: The trusty two hook ledger.

TFP: What brand of rod and reel do you favour?

Karl: I use a mix of Daiwa and Shimano gear but my favourite setup at the moment is a UK designed 14’ Leeda Icon mated with a Daiwa Crosscast.

TFP: What baits do you mainly

use for surfcasting?

Karl: Shellfish and fish baits over the warmer months and crab/cray baits over winter but it can vary depending on sea conditions and locations.

TFP: What is your top tip for surfcasting success?

Karl: Stay keen and put the hours in. It all pays off in the end. Also here on the shingle, distance can be your enemy.

I reckon 90% of the time the best fishing is within a 50m cast.

TFP: Do you have favourite surfcasting spots and how do you fish these places?

Karl: Clifford Bay is my favourite haunt. That’s where I do most of my fishing. I attack it with two rods, one close, one deep and usually with ledgers unless I’m after sharks then running rigs with wire or heavy mono traces.

Prawn/mussel combos on 5/0 recurves were doing the damage. Between the pair of us we took four each, released as many and dropped a few in the break but the highlight was the 13lb fish that finished up our day.

TFP: How did you go about catching the stunning moki bag recently?

TFP: What other forms of fishing do you pursue?

Karl: We had been watching the wind map for the week prior and picked our day and the conditions turned out perfect. We had thick cloud and dark water on a good tide and we were straight into a good run of moki.

TFP: Besides fishing what else do you like to do in the outdoors?

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Karl: Just a bit of rock hopping in the Sounds during snapper season.

Karl: Fishing takes all my time nowadays but a bit of hunting

with mates over winter.

TFP: What do you think of the present state of the Marlborough fishery?

Karl: From a land based fisher’s perspective I think it’s in a healthy state and it seems to get a little better each year. This summer we have seen a lot of big workups with a massive amount of kahawai about and it seems the kingfish were the same. We had our best season yet on snapper and on the coast it was the same with moki and elephants. It’s been a fairly productive summer and hopefully it’s a sign of things to come but we will see.

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Blue Cod Ball Rolling…

The Blue Cod Management Group (BCMG) would like to thank those who attended the blue cod drop-in sessions in Picton and Nelson last month.

The drop-in sessions were held to discuss challenges currently facing the Marlborough Sounds blue cod fishery and to get the community involved in developing potential rules and tools for improving their fishery before an official consultation document is released in the middle of the year.

The sessions attracted strong interest and there was good engagement from fishers.

The BCMG are reviewing the feedback received from attendees and all feedback will be taken into consideration when developing the options for new management rules for this fishery. The public will have a chance to comment on proposals as part of a separate process when the consultation document is released.

If you were not able to attend the drop-in sessions but would like to contribute to the review, there are a number of ways you can get involved. You can email your ideas to us at MSbluecod@mpi.govt.nz or take part in the consultation later on this year.

For more information please visit the blue cod consultation page at www.mpi.govt.nz

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Harbour Views

By Dave Duncan

Rules For a Reason I was asked recently to reflect on boaties’, both commercial and recreational, using Nelson’s recreational waters and waterways and what it is that disturbed me the most? The truth is, the absolute disregard of rules or ignorance that rules even exist.

I have a great deal of empathy for the frustration of the Deputy Harbour Masters who try to apply a pragmatic approach to the enforcement of the local and national rules for the benefit and safety of those in the boating community.

In our minds, there is absolutely no way people should be setting out in vehicles or vessels that could kill them or others, without an understanding of the rules.

Yes you should wear your lifejacket – It is a rule that you must carry one. If you are honest, you will admit that you would never get to it if your vessel overturned and it is precariously tucked away up forward.

You must travel at a safe speed. Most would say that’s a no brainer but there are several components that make up or define a safe speed.

Every vessel must at all times proceed at a safe speed so that proper and effective action to avoid a collision can be taken and the vessel can be stopped within a distance appropriate to the prevailing circumstances and conditions.

In determining a safe speed, the following factors must be among those taken into account:

(c) the manoeuvrability of the vessel, with special reference to stopping distance and turning ability in the prevailing conditions: (d) at night, the presence of background light such as from shore lights or from the back scatter of the vessel’s own lights: (e) the state of wind, sea, and current, and the proximity of navigational hazards: (f) the draught in relation to the available depth of water.

(2) Additionally, for vessels with operational radar: (a) the characteristics, efficiency, limitations of the radar equipment:

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(b) any constraints imposed by the radar range scale in use: (c) the effect on radar detection of the sea state, weather, and other sources of interference: (d) the possibility that small vessels, ice, and other floating objects may not be detected by radar at an adequate range: (e) the number, location, and movement of vessels detected by radar: (f) the more exact assessment of the visibility that may be possible when radar is used to determine the range of vessels or other objects in the vicinity.

Maybe it is self-explanatory. I hope so. Please slow down in the marina (3 knots), within 50m of other vessels or swimmers (5 knots) and whenever any of the above circumstances are appropriate.

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Pork Chops And Beginners’ Browns

What a day

By Anton Donaldson

Before I began guiding, I asked some of the people in the local area if they would like to take up trout fishing and for me to guide them as a trial run. I was worried I may not have the confidence or the patience to become a guide. An elderly couple from along the road expressed some interest in going out to catch a trout for tea. So I chose a day and a spot I knew they and my young daughter would be physically able to get to.

As these were absolute beginners, I thought it would be easier to teach them to cast a spinning rod.

At the river, the conditions were challenging; bright and sunny but the water had quite a lot of colour to it. I showed them the fundamentals of casting the spinner out and retrieving it in a lively manner. The old man was up first - with his second cast finding the middle of the river, he began to reel the lure in towards the bank.

When it was halfway in he told me he thought the reel was jammed - a quick look at the rod tip told me that there was a fish on his line.

I instructed him to lift the rod tip up. He did this but continued to wind in. Knowing the fish would run, I loosened off his drag. I then told him to wind in only when the fish wasn’t swimming away.

Everything was going well and the fish was almost at the bank. I told him to be ready and that it would run one more time when it sees me trying to net it. The fish did exactly that and took off as soon it was close enough to net. The old man kept his cool and began the process of bringing the fish back in. This time, to lively cheers, the fish met the net, a beauty 3lb brown. Never in his wildest dreams did he think he would catch his first trout at 77

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The rod was then given to my little girl. At 4-years-old she already had a grasp of casting and showed us all how to do it by bringing in another brown of 2lbs.

It had been a very successful day and when we got back to the couple’s house they asked us in for a cup of tea and a lesson on cooking trout. I showed them how to stuff the fish and bake it whole in tinfoil. As we were leaving the old man handed me a parcel of frozen home-killed pork chops as a token of appreciation for the day.

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S.S VENTNOR – The Doomed Death Ship When the newly launched steamship Ventnor arrived in Auckland in 1902 seeking cargo, she was engaged by a Chinese charitable society, Cheong Sing Tong, to transport 499 Chinese goldminers back to their homeland in Guandong Province. After stops at Dunedin, Greymouth, Westport and Wellington, Ventnor was fully loaded with coal and Chinese.

However, this voyage was a little different, as all 499 Chinese were dead and in coffins. All had been disinterred from their lonely graves in the goldfields, their remains placed in coffins to be reburied once they reached their hometowns. Many were in leadlined coffins stored below deck others in plain wooden coffins were stored on the deck. They were accompanied by several elderly Chinese from the Sing Tong Society.

After leaving Wellington bound for Hong Kong, Ventnor proceeded up the West Coast on 26 October but, that afternoon, struck a rock somewhere off Cape Egmont. She managed to get clear, then carried on northwards taking on water, which steadily became worse until the pumps could not keep up. By the morning of the 28th it was clear she was sinking and the order to abandon ship was given. That evening, four lifeboats left the vessel and The Ventnor, with her 499 Chinese coffins on board, was seen to sink shortly afterwards, some 10 miles off Hokianga.

Three of the lifeboats made it to shore at the Hokianga Heads,

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Recently, the wreckage of Ventnor has been located on the seabed in 150m of water. Divers have been down and a number of items landed, along with underwater film that has confirmed the identification. Local iwi, Te Roroa, recall stories of bones being washed up along the coastline, these they buried in the sandhills where they were found. Presumably these were from the wooden caskets stowed on deck. It is quite likely the lead-lined coffins stored below could still be with the wreck. There are hopes these can still be retrieved from the wreck and returned to their homeland.

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Cast Back in Time Fish Food for Felix

By John Wares

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu

0:05 0:55 1:40 2:22 2:01 2:39 3:18 3:57 4:38 5:22 0:01 0:51 1:47 2:47 3:48 4:49 5:47 0:29 1:23 2:16 3:08 3:59 4:49 5:40 0:15 1:06 1:59 2:53 3:47 4:38

Russell

0.8 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.3 2.3 2.4 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.6 2.3 2.2 2.1 2.1 2.0 2.0

6:22 7:09 7:51 8:31 8:08 8:46 9:24 10:04 10:45 11:29 6:10 7:03 8:01 9:02 10:04 11:05 12:03 6:43 7:36 8:28 9:19 10:09 10:58 11:48 6:32 7:25 8:19 9:14 10:08 10:58

Burgess Island (Pokohinu) H-0:24 L-0:24 Mangonui H+0:33 L+0:45 Ngatehe Point H+1:40 L+1:41 Tryphena H-0:29 L-0:29

I undertook a very unusual trout fishing trip in Kenya in the mid 1980’s. On leaving the road, which was really a 4x4 rough track, in I went upstream, the local guide, downstream. The terrain was steep, with dense vegetation down to and over the stream. Much to my surprise, I spotted a number of smaller sized trout actively feeding, but was unable to cast due to the overhanging vegetation.

The aroma of wild animals was very strong and there were heaps of dung around. I was later informed that elephants and buffalo were common to the area, which made me nervous but the guide assured me they wouldn’t eat me. I gave up heading upstream and ventured downstream after the guide.

Fortunately, the stream banks in this area were more open. I eventually caught up to the guide and noted the Kenyan way of trout fishing, where one lies on the ground at the top of a pool and hangs the rod over into the water, with 2m of line and a wet fly dangled into the water. Trout aggressively strike the fly; no playing the fish, just lift the rod high and swing the fish out onto the bank. The results of this method of fishing are impressive, but of more concern to me was the sign the guide showed me AFTER we returned to the road!

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

12:37 13:24 14:07 14:47 14:25 15:02 15:39 16:18 16:58 17:42 12:17 13:09 14:07 15:09 16:14 17:18 18:18 12:58 13:51 14:42 15:32 16:20 17:08 17:57 12:38 13:30 14:24 15:21 16:17 17:10

0.8 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 2.2 2.1 2.1 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 2.2 2.1 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0

Port Taranaki

Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu

2:49 3:31 4:07 4:41 4:14 4:46 5:19 5:54 0:18 0:59 1:49 2:51 4:02 5:16 0:09 1:13 2:09 3:00 3:48 4:34 5:20 6:06 0:38 1:26 2:18 3:17 4:22 5:28 0:13 1:08

0.9 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.6 3.2 3.1 3.0 2.9 2.9 3.0 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.4 3.4 3.2 3.0 2.8 2.8 2.8 1.1 1.0

Wed 3:45 4:25 Thu 5:01 Fri Sat 5:34 Sun 0:02 3.0 5:40 Mon 0:08 Tue 0:42 Wed 1:19 Thu Fri 2:02 Sat 2:54 Sun 3:58 5:13 Mon 0:06 Tue Wed 1:13 2:12 Thu 3:06 Fri Sat 3:56 Sun 4:44 Mon 5:32 0:11 Tue 0:58 Wed 1:46 Thu 2:38 Fri Sat 3:35 Sun 4:37 5:41 Mon 0:22 Tue 1:17 Wed Thu 2:06

18:47 19:35 20:17 20:57 20:35 21:13 21:51 22:32 23:14

2.0 2.1 2.1 2.2 2.2 2.3 2.3 2.3 2.3

18:30 19:23 20:23 21:27 22:30 23:31

0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6

19:14 20:07 20:58 21:48 22:37 23:26

2.5 2.6 2.6 2.6 2.5 2.4

18:47 19:40 20:35 21:31 22:26 23:17

0.6 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

Houhora Harbour Entrance H+0:39 L+0:28 Marsden Point H+0:00 L-0:04 Port Jackson H-0:37 L-0:36 Tutukaka Harbour H-0:15 L-0:14

8:59 9:37 10:12 10:45 10:17 10:49 11:22 11:58 6:34 7:19 8:13 9:17 10:28 11:39 6:24 7:23 8:17 9:07 9:54 10:41 11:27 12:13 6:54 7:44 8:38 9:38 10:43 11:46 6:26 7:15

Ahipara Bay H-0:15 L-0:15 Onehunga H+0:49 L+0:47 Otaki River Entrance H-0:20 L-0:20 Porirua (Mana Cruising Club) H+0:03 L-0:11 Raglan H+0:24 L+0:07

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

2.1 2.1 2.1 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.2 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.5 2.5 2.6 2.6 2.5 2.5 2.4 2.3 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8

3.0 3.2 3.3 3.3 3.4 3.4 3.3 3.2 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0 1.0 0.9 3.2 3.4 3.6 3.7 3.7 3.7 3.6 3.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.1 2.9 3.0

15:10 15:49 16:25 16:59 16:32 17:05 17:39 18:16 12:38 13:25 14:21 15:27 16:40 17:52 12:44 13:42 14:35 15:25 16:12 16:58 17:43 18:28 13:00 13:50 14:44 15:45 16:50 17:55 12:42 13:30

0.8 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.6 3.1 3.0 2.9 2.8 2.9 3.0 0.7 0.5 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.4 3.2 3.0 2.8 2.7 2.7 2.7 1.0 0.9

0.8 0.7 0.6 0.5

9:58 10:35 11:10 11:43

2.8 2.9 3.0 3.1

16:06 16:44 17:19 17:52

0.7 0.6 0.5 0.4

0.4 3.1 3.0 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.7 2.7 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 3.4 3.3 3.1 2.9 2.7 2.6 2.5 1.0 1.0 0.9

11:49 6:14 6:50 7:30 8:16 9:12 10:21 11:35 6:25 7:29 8:27 9:20 10:10 10:58 11:46 6:19 7:07 7:57 8:51 9:51 10:54 11:56 6:40 7:32 8:17

3.1 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.8 2.8 3.0 3.2 3.3 3.5 3.5 3.5 0.1 0.3 0.4 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0 2.6 2.6 2.7

18:00 12:24 13:01 13:42 14:30 15:30 16:40 17:53 12:43 13:45 14:41 15:33 16:23 17:10 17:58 12:33 13:22 14:13 15:08 16:07 17:09 18:10 12:53 13:43 14:27

0.4 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.8 2.7 2.7 2.7 0.6 0.5 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 3.3 3.2 3.0 2.8 2.6 2.5 2.5 0.9 0.9 0.8

21:20 21:57 22:32 23:04 22:36 23:08 23:42

3.0 3.2 3.3 3.3 3.4 3.4 3.3

18:56 19:43 20:38 21:44 22:57

0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0 1.0

18:58 19:56 20:48 21:37 22:23 23:08 23:53

3.2 3.4 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.7 3.6

19:14 20:03 20:57 21:59 23:08

0.7 0.9 1.1 1.2 1.2

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18:52 2.8 19:40 3.0

Auckland 2.9 0.9 0.9 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.8 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.4 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.6 0.7 3.2 3.1 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.9

12:18 6:58 7:42 8:22 8:01 8:39 9:18 9:57 10:38 11:21 12:08 6:43 7:41 8:42 9:43 10:44 11:41 6:34 7:28 8:21 9:12 10:03 10:53 11:42 6:10 7:05 8:00 8:56 9:49 10:39

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

22:19 2.8 22:55 2.9 23:29 3.0

18:35 19:13 19:54 20:43 21:43 22:53

0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.8

19:01 20:02 20:58 21:49 22:38 23:25

2.8 3.0 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.4

18:44 19:32 20:22 21:16 22:16 23:20

0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 0.9 1.0

19:06 2.5 19:56 2.6 20:39 2.7

Greymouth H+0:00 L+0:00 Karamea H-0:35 L-0:35

1.0 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 0.9 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.5 3.5 3.5 3.6 3.5 3.5 3.3 3.2 0.8 0.9 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0

18:39 13:04 13:46 14:25 14:03 14:41 15:18 15:57 16:37 17:20 18:08 12:59 13:56 14:59 16:04 17:08 18:08 12:37 13:30 14:21 15:11 15:59 16:47 17:35 12:32 13:23 14:17 15:13 16:09 17:02

Wellington

Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu

3:21 4:05 4:49 5:35 0:17 0:08 1:00 1:50 2:38 3:24 4:09 4:53 5:37 0:03 0:55 1:49 2:46 3:45 4:45 5:46 0:33 1:34 2:33 3:29 4:21 5:09 5:54 0:20 1:04 1:47

1.6 1.5 1.5 1.5 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.5 1.7 1.7 1.8 1.8 1.8 1.7 1.7 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.6 1.6 1.6 1.5

Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu

3:15 3:59 4:41 5:21 5:02 5:44 0:22 1:05 1:50 2:38 3:27 4:19 5:11 6:04 0:41 1:37 2:33 3:29 4:25 5:21 0:06 1:01 1:55 2:50 3:45 4:38 5:30 0:03 0:51 1:37

9:32 10:15 11:00 11:49 5:23 6:12 7:01 7:49 8:36 9:21 10:06 10:51 11:38 6:23 7:11 8:03 8:59 9:59 11:01 12:02 6:45 7:43 8:39 9:33 10:24 11:14 12:01 6:36 7:16 7:55

0.7 0.7 0.8 0.8 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.6 1.6 1.6 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.6 1.6 1.6 0.6 0.7 0.7

15:50 16:36 17:21 18:07 11:39 12:29 13:17 14:03 14:47 15:30 16:13 16:58 17:45 12:28 13:21 14:17 15:15 16:14 17:13 18:11 13:02 13:59 14:53 15:46 16:36 17:24 18:11 12:47 13:32 14:16

19:27 20:11 20:51 20:29 21:07 21:44 22:23 23:05 23:50

2.9 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.1

19:01 20:03 21:08 22:13 23:14

0.8 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.6

19:04 19:57 20:48 21:37 22:26 23:15

3.5 3.6 3.6 3.6 3.5 3.4

18:26 19:19 20:16 21:14 22:10 23:00

0.8 0.9 1.0 1.1 1.1 1.0

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

1.5 1.5 1.5 1.5 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.6 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.8 1.8 1.8 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.6 1.5 1.5 1.5

9:30 10:12 10:53 11:34 11:14 11:56 6:27 7:12 7:59 8:47 9:37 10:28 11:20 12:13 6:58 7:53 8:48 9:43 10:39 11:34 6:17 7:14 8:10 9:05 10:00 10:52 11:43 6:20 7:07 7:51

Akaroa H-0:42 L-0:44 Kaikoura H+0:17 L+0:16 Rakaia Mouth H-0:46 L-0:46 Timaru H-1:13 L-1:16 Waimakariri Mouth H+0:10 L+0:10

0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 2.1 2.1 2.1 2.1 2.1 2.2 2.2 2.3 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 2.5 2.4 2.3 2.3 2.2 2.2 2.1 0.6 0.6 0.6

15:39 16:22 17:04 17:46 17:27 18:09 12:38 13:22 14:07 14:55 15:44 16:35 17:29 18:24 13:07 14:03 14:59 15:56 16:54 17:50 12:30 13:24 14:19 15:12 16:05 16:58 17:49 12:32 13:18 14:03

2.1 2.1 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.2 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.4 2.4 2.5 2.5 2.6 2.6 2.6 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.6 2.1 2.1 2.1

Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu

5:54 0:23 1:10 1:53 2:34 2:14 2:54 3:34 4:16 5:00 5:48 0:30 1:24 2:22 3:22 4:23 5:22 6:19 0:54 1:49 2:41 3:33 4:24 5:15 6:07 0:49 1:41 2:32 3:23 4:13

Tauranga 1.7 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 1.8 1.8 1.8 1.8 1.9 1.9 2.0 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.4 1.8 1.8 1.7 1.7 1.7

12:05 6:42 7:27 8:09 7:50 8:30 9:09 9:48 10:28 11:10 11:56 6:38 7:33 8:32 9:32 10:33 11:32 12:29 7:14 8:07 8:59 9:50 10:41 11:31 12:21 6:58 7:51 8:44 9:36 10:26

East Cape H-0:45 L-0:41 Tairua H-0:03 L-0:03 Waipiro Bay H-0:52 L-0:58 Whakatane H-0:23 L-0:06

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

21:55 0.7 22:40 0.7 23:27 0.7 17:53 18:39 19:24 20:09 20:54 21:39 22:26 23:13

1.5 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.6 1.6 1.6 1.7

18:35 19:28 20:25 21:25 22:27 23:30

0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5

19:08 20:04 20:59 21:53 22:45 23:34

1.8 1.8 1.8 1.7 1.7 1.7

18:55 0.7 19:38 0.7 20:22 0.7

Cape Kidnappers H+0:18 L+0:17 Cape Turnagain H-0:11 L-0:12 Napier H+0:38 L+0:37 Portland Island H+0:23 L+0:22

Lyttelton

2.2 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.1 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.5 2.4 2.4 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.6 2.2 2.1 2.1

2.9 0.9 0.9 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.8 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.4 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 3.1 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8

Mahurangi Harbour H+0:02 L+0:12 Thames (Rocky Point) H-0:17 L-0:11

Bare Island (Motu 0 Kura) H+0:21 L+0:20 Cape Palliser H+0:10 L+0:10 Castlepoint H+0:20 L+0:18 Porangahau Riv.Entrance H+0:00 L-0:01

5:07 0.4 11:16 3.1 17:26 0.4 23:35 3.1

Anita Bay H+0:26 L+0:27 Hokitika H+0:10 L+0:10 Whanganui Inlet H-1:05 L-1:05

6:10 0:38 1:22 2:02 2:41 2:18 2:57 3:36 4:18 5:02 5:50 0:40 1:36 2:37 3:39 4:40 5:38 0:10 1:04 1:55 2:46 3:36 4:26 5:18 0:05 0:57 1:50 2:44 3:38 4:29

Coromandel Harbour H-0:21 L-0:15 Mansion House Bay H-0:15 L-0:04

Kawhia H+0:24 L+0:00 Opononi H+0:05 L+0:02 Patea H-0:10 L-0:10 Pouto Point H+0:42 L+0:36 Whanganui River Entrance H+0:19 L+0:28

Westport

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Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu

2:41 3:25 4:01 4:34 4:04 4:34 5:05 5:37 0:24 1:02 1:44 2:37 3:45 5:06 0:00 1:09 2:06 2:57 3:43 4:27 5:09 5:51 0:34 1:17 2:02 2:55 4:02 5:17 6:25 0:56

2015

0.5 1.7 1.7 1.8 1.8 1.8 1.8 1.8 1.8 1.8 1.8 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.1 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 1.9 1.9 1.8 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5

18:19 12:53 13:37 14:19 13:58 14:37 15:15 15:55 16:36 17:20 18:07 12:47 13:43 14:44 15:48 16:51 17:52 18:49 13:23 14:15 15:06 15:55 16:44 17:33 18:23 13:12 14:04 14:58 15:51 16:43

1.7 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 1.8 1.8 1.8 1.8 1.9 1.9 2.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 1.7 1.7 1.6 1.6 1.7

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By Ivan Wilson

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Contentment Amidst a Spring of Malcontent Last spring had been unsettled and full of malcontent. Many of us felt the same as we gazed out at the elements.

We were treated to every type of precipitation available – misty persistent stuff, wind driven tempestuous storms, rain that came straight down at terminal velocity in rods of wetness, followed by hail to overload guttering and shred leafy vegetation in the kitchen garden, which was planted more in hope than confidence this year. Of course it must be recognised hailstones have had a more dire effect, devastating entire fruit crops in some areas. Then finally a break in the weather arrived so to shake off cabin fever we went fishing.

He of the F Word trundled up to the front gate; we latched on the boat and away we went, stopping briefly to stir up Dave at Moana Service Centre.

“Oh here comes Tweedledee and Tweedledum again off fishing,” quoth he.

In spite of this derision, we bought coffee to go and bottles of water - the cheek is always free - then took off towards our favourite launching spot.

Chugging out at the obligatory five knots, I noted the recent high lake levels were indicated by surface material left in distinct lines on the clumps of reeds. Given the light airs coming through from the south-west, we headed out to a location we liked to visit, which allowed the wind to drift us along the shoreline, adjusting the heading with the odd oar-stroke.

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that a week ago I’d not seen a fish in this area but today right from the get go they were there, here and everywhere.

At one stage we picked up three one after another.

We cast to sighted fish as well as dropping flies into nooks and crannies that looked fishy. A bloke can waste an entire day doing this sort of thing!

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and we found trout well back from the main water. The sun warmed us, kingfishers piped their territorial signals, black swan made their flutelike calls to each other, ducks lifted off in splattering masses, spur winged plovers screeched strident threats to all within hearing and various herons silently stalked the margins of Brunner’s clear, golden water.

It’s a privilege to be in this wonderful environment.

As per usual, we took turnabout to row and fish and as my set up was not performing properly, with tangles and noisy splashdowns, I suggested we both use H.o.t.F.W’s rod.

The idea was well received and casting improved immediately. The trout were starting to get into reasonable condition, which meant some good battles before we got them to the net.

Strategic mid-lake releases, strikes missed, fish that took a look then turned away, along with the odd bust-off, all added to the excitement. A total of a dozen hook-ups for the time we had available and four each caught and released made for a tidy tally.

A great way to spend a fine Monday… and H.o.t.F.W. brought fresh venison rolls for lunch! Settled and contented feelings all round as we headed homeward.

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Small Fish Take the Cake Dear Ed, I was reading an edition of The Fishing Paper praising the benefits of yellow-eye mullet and spotties. I agree, but I make fish cakes out of them. In fact, I make these out of any small fish, including small kahawai. Here’s how: Gut, scale, head and tail small fish, scour skin with a knife.

Put in a metal steamer in a pot with water to the bottom of the steamer and steam until they are curled up and the flesh is opened up. Take out the fish and allow to cool a bit. Leave water in pot.

Take out of the freezer the jar of previously saved liquor (put through a sieve) from when you last had steamed mussels and add to fish juice.

Peel and chop up three spuds and boil in all this juice.

Allow to cool a bit Take all the fish off the bones with two forks and crumble into a bowl with a lot of finger searching for bones.

Mash the cooked spuds and add an egg, heaps of chopped herbs (parsley, chives, dill, mint), chilli sauce, salt and pepper, and mix very well, all the while looking for bones.

Lay out baking paper on the bench and cover with flour.

Take balls of mixture and roll around in the flour then flatten to produce cakes.

Sprinkle flour on a tray and lay cakes on this. Leave in fridge to cool, even 24 hrs is quite okay.

Fry the cakes in oil.

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Mystery Body on Beach Dear Ed, Back in December my wife and I shot over to Golden Bay for our 6th wedding anniversary and decided to go for a walk along Totaranui Beach.

We were sitting looking out to sea when I noticed something bright pink floating in the surf. Now I’m a keen fisher and at first sight I thought someone had dropped a bottle or such over the side, so went to remove the debris from the sea for the bin.

As I got closer, I realised I was looking at one of the most beautifully coloured fish I have ever seen (by the way the photo doesn’t do it justice). Unfortunately it was already dead so I pulled it out onto the beach. I’d say it was about 500mm long and at least 2 to 3kg in weight.

I have no idea what type of fish this is, I have put this out on my social media page and none of my fishing mates seem to know either.

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Ed Replies: It is a goatfish or red mullet. Common around the top of the South and North Island, but rare south of Hawkes Bay and Farewell Spit. It is highly variable in colour, which can change quickly in an instant.

Goatfish love sandy bottoms and edges of reefs, where they feed off tiny shellfish, invertebrates and worms.

Dear Ed,

it back to continue its journey.

The issue of of a seasonal limit on salmon has been a touchy subject that arouses all sorts of passion and opinion, and one I have been firmly against.

Call it time or old age but I am gradually changing my opinion on this issue and I feel the time has come for a serious debate on its merits.

For those who spend endless hours in pursuit of the salmon and are catching 20, 30 plus fish a season, there is no need to kill every one landed; is it not a contest of skill, the thrill of the battle? We do not have to be like the Romans where the loser was slaughtered.

When one considers the average weight of salmon being between five and six kilos, a seasonal limit around ten fish is ample for any person and their family. The adage of taking enough for a feed is not gaining much traction within the salmon fishing fraternity and, from what I see, there seems to be more pleasure gained by some in dispatching this magnificent fish with the old greywacke, than slipping

I would be most appreciative if you or any of of the readers could tell me what it is.

Ken Lloyd Christchurch

Salmon Stress Raised Dear Ed, I am writing to give my opinion on the salmon fishing article run in your Feb Issue

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I have mixed feelings about this as I have always been led to believe that, unlike trout, salmon are very highly strung and usually die after a ‘tough battle’, probably of stress.

This was evident some thirtyyears-ago during a salmon competition on the Waitaki river. Jet boats taking salmon in the sea out from the river mouth, and in trying to bag the big one, were tossing the smaller ones back. Heaps of them were washed up dead on the beach M G Lea

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tend to release quite a few. It is a good thing to enjoy a healthy battle with big fish and then to release them to add to the fishery is very satisfying.”

Top marks to Lloyd Hanson and Laurie Collins (Sporting Hunters Outdoor Trust) for their excellent letters in a previous issue. Lloyd was spot on about paid science. It’s like Monsanto hiring a scientist to say Roundup is good for plants. Two top scientists, Pat and Quinn Whiting - Okeefe, analysed the 1080 science and rated it poorly. You don’t need to be a scientist to understand simple food chains, as Laurie Collins pointed out, all the DoC will do is knock thousands of birds over and stimulate an upsurge in rat numbers; sometimes within a year back to “original numbers”

Deer stalkers also reported a large number of tomtit carcasses on the ground after the operation. This evidence was not supported by the study, as a walk-through along the transect lines at the treatment site in the week following the 2002 poison operation found no dead tomtits or noticeable changes in bird numbers. We offered the birds found to DoC for autopsy but they refused, saying they only had funding for one autopsy a year. Here

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A scientific three-year study in 2002 was carried out on the effects of 1080 on tomtits in a local 4,000 hectare reserve.

A small group of us had a casual walk in the reserve after the poison drop and picked up 24 dead birds, including 14 tomtits, which were grid

was opportunity for factual science but it was refused.

Factual 1080 science is sadly lacking. Thank goodness for the Sporting Hunters Outdoor Trust challenging the mountains of faulty science.

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Codpiece to Avoid Another Kick to Scrotum

By Daryl Crimp

Fishers who feel the current blue cod rules in the Marlborough Sounds Blue Cod Management Area were a ‘kick in the nuts’ still have time to have input into the current review of the regulations.

The public information drop-in sessions held by the Blue Cod Management Group (BCMG) in Picton and Nelson last month attracted between 100 - 120 interested people to each venue, with many who couldn’t make the meetings emailing their suggestions to the group.

The current contentious blue cod rules are under review and the first part of the process is to seek input from the public. The BCMG is not only interested in public views on the current regulations and issues facing the fishery, but keen to hear potential solutions that will work for both the community and the welfare of the blue cod.

After these meetings, the BCMG and MPI will go into a huddle to discuss this feedback and the various options, and from this an initial position paper (IPP) will be formulated and presented for public discussion. This paper will form the basis for decision making on a new set of regulations for the fishery, so it is important people have input at this early level if an unpalatable management regime like the current one is to be avoided again.

It is not too late for groups or individuals who missed the ‘drop-in’ meetings to influence decision making by submitting constructive ideas to the BCMG, but urgency is needed to ensure ideas are heard by the BCMG BEFORE the IPP is written,

as it is virtually impossible to incorporate new ideas later. Send your ‘cod pieces’ to: MSbluecod@mpi.govt.nz The Blue Cod Management Group consists of representatives from recreational, commercial and the Ministry of Primary Industries: Eric Jorgensen, John Duncan, Michael Hill, Allan Davidson, Graham Colley, Michael Connolly, Carol Scott (Commercial), and Steve Halley (MPI), so if you know any of these people personally, you might also direct your suggestions through them.

On TV3 NEWS, Blue Cod Management Group spokesman Eric Jorgensen said of the last consultation process, “We put together what we thought was a good management plan (2011), it actually gained quite a bit of public support. It disappeared (into MPI) and what came out, we couldn’t recognise.”

This illustrates how important it is to keep hammering home the messages to Government and MPI. It also reinforces how important it is to put forward constructive alternatives to what is currently in place. It is easy to have a gripe and attack what you don’t like, but if you can’t come up with solutions, we may just end up with more of the same. Readers are urged to contribute feedback and ideas to the BCMG through MSbluecod@mpi.govt.nz now. It is crucial that the a new management regime be constructive, fair and workable.

Let us hope the government is listening this time.

A Blokes Guide to Supporting the Coast to Coast

By Malcolm Halstead

1. Congratulate your wife on signing up for the Coast to Coast. Brownie point number one.

2. Suggest that you provide support by dropping her at the start line and collecting her from the finish line.

Brownie point number two.

3. The night before the race stow your fly fishing gear in the vehicle. Best you don’t mention this to the wife as you may lose the initial two brownie points.

4. Rise early and travel to the start line, while giving the wife some encouraging words of support. Brownie point number three.

5. Deposit wife with a hug and a kiss for good luck. Take two brownie points here because of the public display of affection.

6. Drive two kilometres up the road and shout support just as the wife disappears into the wilderness. Take two more brownie points here because she wouldn’t have expected this.

7. Get back into your vehicle and drive back past the finish line and onto one of the many lakes through Arthurs/Porters Pass. No points for this but give yourself a bloody big pat on the back for being so cunning.

8. Spend the next few hours slaying the odd trout and generally enjoying yourself.

Feel free to have a can of Speights your wife was presented with at registration that morning. Once again no points but really who cares?

9. After keeping a careful watch on the time, head back to the finish line with time to spare before the wife arrives.

Take a brownie point because of the sheer intellect of your plan.

10. Cheer wife on as she crosses the finish line and again dish out a hug and kiss.

Due to exhaustion she will not notice the extra five brownie points you take here.

11. Once home surprise the wife with a well conditioned brown trout for dinner making it easier for her to feed the family after such a big day. Take one point here.

If you do cook the dinner, then an extra five points is appropriate.

12. Point out since you did spend the day supporting her then you will be away tomorrow fishing as it is only fair. No points here as you have just elevated yourself to genius.

So there you have it, a very simple guide to supporting the Coast to Coast as experienced by myself.

PS. I got five good kahawai the next day!

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Chuckles Thrashes it Out With a Thresher

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Everybody knows me as ‘Chuckles’ because i’m always smiling and laughing, and the day I caught the thresher shark was no different.

I love kontiki fishing. My daughter, Joanna, and her partner Karl and my mate Swampy spend a lot of time down the beach with me and we catch rig and snapper mainly.

Baldrick and Karl were meant to be fishing with me that day but neither had shown up, so I was by myself when I winched my kontiki in. I could hardly believe my eyes when the sharks tail came thrashing out of the water. The winch was having a hard time pulling it in and it finally stopped with the shark still 15 feet off shore, so the only thing to do was wade out with a gaff and try to drag

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it in. I was waist deep in water and crapping myself, but I still had a huge smile on my face.

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struggle, I managed to get it on my trailer. The shark weighed 31kg gutted.

This is the second year Baldrick and I have entered the Mokihinui Fishing Competition and we will definitely be entering again.

It’s well organised and a fun competition.

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The day was hot as Philip Mather and I entered the water on the search for paua.

We made our way out across the tangle of bull kelp and rocks, until we were about waist deep. There was a rock jutting out where I stopped and donned my mask and snorkel.

Phil made his way down the beach further on to a small group of rocks. The waves were a little rough as I made my way round the few rocks, occasionally putting my head under to see if any paua were in reach. I rounded the back side of one large rock and spied a reasonable sized paua.

Reaching down, I slid the MAF issued paua knife under the unsuspecting abalone and popped it off the rock. I gave the shellfish a measure - 125 mm for black foot paua and 80mm for yellow foot paua are the sizes - the one I had was over 125mm. One down five to go.

I got to a bunch of rocks and had one rock on the seaward side of me and a huge one on the beach side with a gap about 3ft wide, just big enough for me to fit in. It was about 4-5ft deep with a couple of good overhangs and a cave under the seaward rock

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I looked down and could see quite a few paua at the bottom of the gap. I plunged down and made a grab for the closest big paua. As soon as I touched it I clamped down hard on the rock and managed to slip the paua knife under. It took a bit of wrestling but I popped it and came up for a breath.

I put my head under and I noticed a head of a fish poking out from under a piece of kelp. I’m pretty sure it was a butterfish but as soon as it saw me move it was gone.

I dived down again and spotted a huge paua. I slipped the knife in but it wasn’t going to let go of the rock in a hurry.

I had to come up for a breath, leaving the knife between the paua and the rock. I headed back getting a better grip on the knife. I tried to pop it off but it was a fighter and I came up again for air. Next time down I managed to pry it from its abode. I made my way out of there and around the front of another rock and was quickly rewarded with the remaining two I needed for my quota.

I came out of the water with a few scrapes on me but it was a really enjoyable day in the water. We both got our quota, found a good spot and maybe next time I may just go look for a butterfish or two with a spear.

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I’m Not a bit Superstitious, But….

By Frank Cartwright

It was a beautiful mid-March morning. The sun was up and from horizon to horizon there was nary a cloud to be seen, but best of all, there wasn’t a breath of wind. The barometer on my wall confirmed the presence of a stationary anticyclone imparting its benign influence over Marlborough so, all in all, the right ingredients were in perfect alignment for a great morning’s fishing. However, there was a fly in the ointment - the state of the Wairau River. It might not be fishable. There had been a back-country fresh earlier in the week and although the river was dropping rapidly, discolouration was the unknown factor. As good as M.D.C. river reports are, they don’t publish turbidity so it was with some misgivings that I left home thinking that I might be beaten by a coffee-coloured river.

Arriving at a favourite possie, I sussed things out. Volume and discolouration were less than expected, which was a relief. I guestimated visibility to be just a couple of feet but still fishable. I reckoned that while trout might have difficulty seeing my fly, they would likewise have difficulty seeing me and after summing up I decided to fish the river downstream. My rationale is that when fishing discoloured water, the sweep of a wet fly covers a greater area than could be expected by casting nymphs upstream.

Right or wrong, but following the old axiom of ‘yellow water yellow fly,’ I selected a #12 yellow bodied wet fly and added a bit of lead paste to assist getting it well down. Trout

would be holding close to the river bed and that’s where I expected my fly to be working.

I had been fishing less than five minutes when I received a mighty strike and a really good fish took off upstream, but after a few moments it turned about and fled downstream, using the rapid current to assist its flight. I was just gaining a measure of control when the line went dead. Glumly, I reeled in and found my fly had gone. I was gobsmacked!

I had tested the knot for strength more than once before casting and it had held firm.

Doubtlessly, inadequate preparation was to blame and with a silent curse addressed to no one but myself, I tied on another fly and continued casting.

They say bad luck comes in threes but in my case, on that particular morning, it came in fours. Within 15 minutes I had connected with another three trout but incredibly, they slipped the hook and left me rueing lost opportunities. And that was that. The run of strikes dried up and after spotting another angler working his way upstream towards me, I gave it away for the morning.

Driving home I tried to figure out why I had failed so spectacularly and came to the conclusion that, in all likelihood, I would most probably have done nothing differently and that I had been simply unlucky. Then the penny dropped. It was Friday. Friday the 13th.

Black Friday! I must have had old Nick on my back all morning and although I don’t hold with superstition, at least I had a tailor-made excuse for duffing four out of four!

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We went fishing out of Collingwood one Sunday recently and Dad jokingly said, “If you get a fish I will give you five bucks!”

I had a rod rigged with good old squid bait and next minute, my line took off giving me a bit of a shock. I could hardly pull it in! As I was winding it, the fish pulled the boat around - it was amazing.

When I finally got the snapper to the surface, we tried to get it in the net but it didn’t fit. We were having trouble when, all of a sudden, the line snapped!

I couldn’t believe it and almost screamed. Fortunately, Dad quickly snatched at the line and pulled the monster fish into the boat.

When we got back we weighed it and it went 20 pounds after it was gutted.

Dad was gutted too - it cost him five bucks!

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By Harry Crosswell - Age 14

Over the summer holidays I’ve been heading to the Wairau River Mouth every chance l get to target kahawai.

Over this time I have caught quite a few fish, nearly aways coming home with something in the chilly bin. Most of the fish have been around fourpounds. On my most recent trip, l went at high tide and caught a very nice sized fourpound fish on the second cast.

After that, fishing was quiet for half an hour until I got another bite, which I was unable to land. Other times I haven’t caught a thing.

When I get home we have the fish for dinner, mainly fried, and I have the job of filleting it. I even have had a go at smoking the fish, but it turned

out worse that I expected. The first time it was over done and covered with sawdust. Then I had another go but I had made the fillets too large and they didn’t cook fully in the smoker, so I finished them I

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