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Often we take the simple technology we enjoy in everyday life for granted. One of those is the Global Positioning System (aka GPS and formerly NAVSTAR). Whilst it started life as a nuclear missile defence due to the escalation of the Cold War, we now enjoy this technology in nearly all of our mobile electronic devices, including phones, marine electronics, numerous other gadgets, and even shoes for Alzheimers patients.

GPS is not the only system hovering above our planet. The Russians have developed GLONASS and China, Europe, India and Japan are currently all developing their own systems, many of which have operational dates in the year 2020. GPS has 31 satellites constantly orbiting 20,200km above the earth, travelling at a speed that enables them to complete two orbits every 24 hours. Only 24 of these satellites are active, with the remainder ready to be deployed as back ups.

Each unit has a bank of atomic clocks, which are constantly monitored by seven land stations that continually make incremental changes to ensure accuracy is maintained throughout the system.

Originally the system was designed to ensure four satellites were always in view, regardless of where you were. Three were sufficient to get a fix but four was much more accurate. There are now a minimum of six continually in view, but the number fluctuates between 6 and 12 depending on their position in their orbits.

For boaties,there are several factors that determine the accuracy of the GPS signal received: the vessel construction material, eg. GPS signals travel through fibreglass but not aluminium. Therefore you can generally dash/flush mount into fibreglass and it won’t affect your GPS. Where aluminium prevents the signal, you can bracket mount your unit.

Aluminium hardtops can present a problem, with the amount of metal obstructing the view from the GPS receiver.

If you only have six satellites in view and the position of the GPS only has 50% view of the sky, then accuracy can be impaired.

That’s when external modules come into their own. Generally, these are mounted on the top of the hardtop or the front exposed area of the bow. We sometimes see these mounted inside the wheel house, this is the least desired, as people tend to place objects and wet clothing over the top of the receiver - again blocking the signal.

If you are experiencing problems with accuracy, all units have a satellite information screen. This will tell you how many satellites you have a fix on and how strong their signal is. You can get the estimated accuracy in metres but we check a function called HDOP, which is a great indicator and, as a rule, should be around 0.6-0.7 if all is well. Above 1.0 indicates an issue.

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Pig hunters bail marlin

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Scott Heywood

Scott Heywood

The water temperature was only 16 degrees and green swell was mounting as TINTIN nosed out of Westhaven Inlet, 5 POB, and a mix of fishing tackle and dive gear.

Dreams of catching a marlin were always in the back of my mind, as were the haunting jibes of mates, like ‘Buckie’, who reckoned they’d catch one first just to burst my bubble.

The seed of the quest was set years ago when I was just a young fella trailing dad and his mate as we steamed off Anchorage in Tasman

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Bay, heading for a cray dive. I looked out the back of the boat to catch The marlin was scarcely moving, sight of a magnificent fish breaking gliding with pectoral fins outstretched the surface - scythe-like tail and a bill like wings, but it lit up like neon at the snout end - marlin! and powered off when I tried to intercept. It surfaced again 100m This trip, my hunting buddy, Mark out, so I ran the lure much further Kelly, and I were returning a favour: back and curved past it in a wide hosting a couple of Canterbury pig circle; the timing looked perfect and hunters, Chris Sparks and Jamie we collectively held our breath. The Ward, who’d taken us out some marlin disappeared in the wash, time back. Mark’s daughter, Hanna, then struck the lure but didn’t stick. made five. We filled up on cod A group groan, but over Kahurangi we waited. It returned shoals, attempted suddenly and smashed a groper drop, “This time I the lure, instantly and then nipped peeling off 250m of line in to Kahurangi saw the dorsal and putting the most Lighthouse so I fin lift - sharks wonderful bend in the could drop over for Shimano Triton rod. a cray. don’t do that The fight was on and “You aren’t going MARLIN!” the pig hunters were to swim with that pumped, like dogs in a shark, are you?” bail. I was surprisingly Jamie shouted as I calm as I concentrated on driving the was togging up. boat and keeping the line tight. Mark I looked over my shoulder, but the was on the rod and he was buzzing; tail fin looked too small for a shark. he’s a pig hunter - not much of a Steaming closer, the fish rolled on its fisherman! The marlin leaped several shoulder and disappeared but came up a short way off. This time I saw the times, reared and thrashed its flanks, and then hung in the air like a freezedorsal fin lift - sharks don’t do that frame photo; lure hanging out, all lit - marlin! And only in 15m of water! up, dripping water, and back curved.

Scrambling to change the groper rig It kept stripping line effortlessly so from the Shimano TLD 25, I soon I grabbed the rod and checked the had the marlin lure in the water and

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My two favourite words that begin with F Bryce Howard

2. Light line catches big fish – I only fish with 3.6kg braid, and a 10kg fluorocarbon leader. Light line means that you can use light jigs, get down to the fish quicker, and stay in the strike zone for longer. How often does the line break – never (unless it’s operator error). A couple of key points I have learnt the hard way – don’t let the braid touch the side of the boat, always use a net or gaff to land your fish, and retie your knots if there is any line chafing caused by the last fish. The biggest kingfish I have caught on this line class with Gulp! soft baits has been over 18kg, and a 22lb snapper. The other benefit is that you get immense enjoyment out of a bent rod and a ten-minute battle to bring a nice fish on board.

3. It’s not just about snapper. Snapper fishing is my favourite around Kawau, particularly around Flat Rock and south towards Tiri. However, a few more of the unusual fish I have caught in the last 12 months in this area included gurnard, blue cod, john dory (love the bigger 7 inch baits), and even a hapuka pup in early spring!

4. Target kingfish around workups – jig in the mid to high water. Mixture of slow and fast retrieves, particularly with the Gulp! Belly Strip Baits resulting in good hook up rates. Be prepared to back up on these fish, get on top of them early so that the line pressure is continually pulling their head up.

Bryce says his catch rate improved once he switched to Gulp!

Fishing and Family. Question always is – how to balance the two? How do I involve my kids, and my wife in a sport that involves copious quantities of berley, smelly pilchards, and slimy squid. I was one of these guys who often took out more berley and bait, than fish caught. Then came the clean-up before the family could enjoy the boat again: scrubbing it out, disinfecting, and bottles of Simple Green to remove the pilchard smell. Solution – soft baits.

It was summer of 2009 that I was first introduced to Gulp! soft baits and, like most of us, tried it once, with the wrong rod, wrong reel, wrong line weight, and no concept of what I needed to do. With a bit of research (and there are plenty of articles and pictures on line) and a bit of money spent, I got a couple of soft bait rods, light spinning reels, and 3.6kg braid

My family have caught many great fish since going Gulp! softbait only. Remember boys - happy wife, happy life!

spooled on both of them. Since that summer, my boat, a 740 Offshore Tristram, has been bait free and family friendly. I have caught and released so many more fish of different types that I ever did with smelly bait. Here are a few key points that I have learnt over the years.

1. Spend the time finding the fish, utilise your fish finder, your eyes (following gannets) and understand what cycle the fish are in during different times of the year(where are they feeding). I do spend plenty of fuel chasing gannets around the gulf, they are great finders of workups, and action that pull in fish for miles. Several gannets flying in a straight line just above the water are a clear sign that they know where the fish are. Follow them – it’s worth it.

James Howard with a rumpty Gulp! victim.

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Gardening over the carrot patch Daryl Crimp

Fishing buds, Damon Nuhaj and Daniel Crimp reckon gurnard make great catching.

Red gurnard has always been underrated in my estimation, both for its firm delicious eating qualities and for the fishing factor; catching ‘carrots’ is quite simply, damn good fun.

Couple this with the fact that gurnard numbers are on the upswing in the Top of the South and the template is set for productive fishing ahead.

Gurnard are essentially bottom feeders, inhabiting soft or sandy strata from very shallow, down to 200m. They are listed as having a maximum size of 50cm but do grow bigger.

Over our summer break in the Sounds, gurnard were so prolific we only kept the ones between 44 - 56cm! They were so abundant the kids coined the phrase, “Dad, can we go gardening over the carrot patch?”

Gurnard are found around coastal North Island, the Top of the South, our east coast, and parts of the West Coast down to Fiordland.

Huge increases in numbers have been reported in the Sounds, Tasman Bay, and Golden Bay, and reason for this is probably a combination of several factors: reduced trawling pressure, increased or abundant food, and good breeding seasons. The increase spells good news, not only for food gatherers and fishers, but the fragile Marlborough Sounds blue cod stocks; if more fishers were to focus on gurnard, it would take pressure off the cod.

While fishing the Sounds over the holidays, we averaged between six gurnard on a slow day, to 15 on good days - as well as a variety of other species. Many other fishers we spoke to were frustrated with the fishing: the snapper were spawning and the cod hard to get, and most we talked to didn’t know there were gurnard around, or where to look for them. So here are some basics to get you started.

Alternatively, drift across bays. If the drift is too fast - more than slow walk - use a sea anchor or drogue to slow the drift.

Rigs and bait A standard two-hook ledger rig with 3 - 6/0 recurve hooks is ideal, weighted with a 6 - 10 oz sinker, depending on current. A similarly configured flasher rig is a good alternative; the Black Magic Gurnard Grabber, Snapper Snatcher, Bleeding Pilchard range work well, and we had far more hook ups on these than the new C-Point Blinky range.

Small to medium baits work better than big chunky ones and fresh is best. Like snapper, gurnard can be fussy at times, so have a selection: fresh crabs cut in half work a treat, prawns, squid, kahawai, mullet, trevally, pilchards, cockles, mussel, and mackerel. Fresh mackerel accounted for the majority of our catches, followed by crabs, and fresh kahawai.

Despite being ‘bottom feeders’, gurnard can be aggressive on the chew and will come up off the bottom a small distance to chase small fish, so softbaits and slow jigs are worth a shot. Cast out and retrieve across the bottom slowly and with the occasional skitter action, or bottom bounced as you drift.

On light string, they are fun to catch and a winner in terms of keeping the kids happy.

Soft bottoms and crabs

Location is key: in the Sounds, move away from the rocky terrain where you target cod.

Look for any sloping bay with soft bottom, and especially under mussel farms. Gurnard are attracted to mussel farms because of the crabs, shrimps, worms and tiny fish that live there. Tie up between the mussel lines, use berley, and fish a whole tide; gurnard and other species come on the bite at different times, and will sometimes have two feeding times in one tidal flow. They often correspondently bite again at the opposite time on the back tide i.e. two hours before top of tide and two hours before low tide.

Little Gurr with his first gurnard.

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Big fat blue cod, groper, bluenose, and large metalliclooking trumpeter each vie for top billing but they can be just as easily off the bite as on it.

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South Westland, though: with a million acres of uncluttered ocean to fish over, it is guaranteed you will attract the only other boat within radar reach, only to have it try and mate with your vessel. And so we drifted off a favourable mark as the intruder pulled alongside.

“Where is the good fishing?” asked the hopeful skipper.

“Anywhere, mate… you just have to look around,” I replied cheerfully. Good marks take years to acquire and are not dished out freely to strangers.

Leaving the interlopers to their devices, we headed to a reliable groper mark 15km offshore, but came up short when we noticed good sign in a new spot. Rigs loaded with trusty squid, we lowered away and filled up the photo with these beauties. Alas, the session was cut short as we slowly motored away from the mark with laden rods in tow.

Some 800m away we could see the expanding spectre of our friendly intruders bearing down on us with great alacrity.

It seems they decided to take ‘a look around’ in exactly the same speck of ocean as us.

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My ‘gilla’ the gorilla Sam Peterson

I have had a few people tell me fishing the pier is shit, but why do you think I go there?

You need to know what you are doing and if you put the time in, it can be one of the best places to fish: rig, eles’, school shark, blue shark, seven gillers, kahawai, mullet, and skate to name a few.

Fresh bait works best off New Brighton Pier, so I set about catching some first.

Using my 8ft salmon rod, I’ll target herrings with a sabiki and, in this case, switch rigs to flick a mullet under a float for a barracouta; a good bait for seven gill sharks.

Then I switch to my 12ft surfcaster, which runs a heavy duty rig: a one dropper ledger rig with two 10/0 octi’ hooks tied with 210lb mono trace line. I use a 50lb leader and run 25lb main line.

Landing fish from the pier can be quite a challenge, but two methods seem to work for me: 1. If it is a big fish, I will walk it along to the beach and either have someone on shore coax it in with the waves, or hold the rod while I go down and land it.

2. I have a four-prong grapnel anchor with sharpened points, which I often lower

over the side of the pier and gaff big fish.

On this occasion I was fishing a big slab of barracouta off the end of the pier when this seven-and-ahalf foot ‘gilla’ took the bait and tried to take me to the

cleaners; it ran heaps and in the end I had to take it for a walk, beaching it in front of a gathering crowd of surprised onlookers. They couldn’t believe that this little monster was actually one of the smaller specimens.

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A rig-and-a-half to the stubby Mike McClunie

T’was a day or two after Christmas and all was calm well the sea was! So I rounded up my old mates, Jimmy the Fish, Chocolate Kelly, and plenty of family, and set off to our favourite Westland beach.

We are blessed with some great surfcasting, with greyboys, elephant fish and rig topping the list. Personally, I think you can’t go past rig so that’s what I predominately target. I use big paddle crabs cut in half and ‘bungeed’ onto a big 10/0 hook with bait elastic; rig just can’t resist them. If I am fishing a second rod, I’ll thrown on some prawns or squid and have a crack at the eles and greyboys.

The rig seem to feed right in behind the breakers, so you don’t have to cast too far - just drop in behind the white water and wait.

Jimmy hooked and landed a nice rig after only a minute, so things looked good. After a stubbieand-a-half (West Coast Clock) I noticed a small bite on my rod, so raced over followed by a gaggle of kids and pulled it from the rod holder. My daughter asked if there was anything on and I had just replied, ‘no,’ when something grabbed my bait and made a dash for Tasmania. After a long fight and the usual duelling with the Westland surf, Jimmy finally grabbed the bugger by the tail and dragged it up the beach - a beauty of a rig weighing in at 30lb.

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Dixon dips deep in champs After three second placings and a third in this championship in the last four years, it was one I was keen to win, but with the Trans-Tasman and NZ National Championships scheduled for the same Lake Rotokahatu venue in just a couple of weeks time, my main focus was on getting some new ideas tested and mentally prepared.

The lake had been fishing very well and my draw on Saturday was favourable, with Peg 11 having some form this year.

However, the locals suggested Peg 9 would be hard to beat, especially when jammy Julian Barnett drew it for the fifth time, having already smashed the match record off the same peg back in December.

From the start of the match I knew something was wrong. My new groundbait mix smelled terrible and I became convinced the fish were avoiding it when it took me an hour to catch. I could see Julian was hammering ‘em on Peg 9 but surprisingly most other people were also struggling. With the notorious Christchurch nor’wester and heat rising to 32 degrees during the day, it seemed the fish were as lethargic as the anglers and we could only watch as small groups of tench finned lazily past just a few feet under the surface.

As time wore on I played around with different tactics and managed to pick off the odd fish but, at the final reckoning, my 22lb was only good enough for 3rd in the section and no-one got close to Julian’s 103lb haul! In the other section, Steve Gaskell’s 43lb was also well clear of the rest, so it looked like the title would be a duke-out between those two previous winners.

However, no-one was expecting the curved ball served up by the draw bag on Sunday morning: Julian and Steve drew adjacent pegs in the same section, and myself and South Canterbury angler Dave Merrett drew the two better pegs at the opposite end. When the match got underway the maths were already going through my head, and when it became obvious that Dave and I were catching faster at our end, I started to feel the section points could go 1-2-3-4 down the line. That would mean Julian would blow out to five points, and I’d be equal with Steve on four, who had a 21lb weight advantage from the first day. Time to get my head down and catch some fish!

Another hot day wore on and I was able to keep fish going into the net at a steady pace, but flurries of action from the others along the bank had me concerned. The final whistle sounded and with the scalesman starting his weigh-in from the far end of the match length, it took an age for news of the catches to filter through. The other section had not fished as well as expected and our catches were better. Unfortunately for Julian, his peg had not produced so Steve had won their personal battle and, with 56lb on the card, was leading the day. Dave Merrett was last to weigh-in before me and his total catch of 40+ tench gave him 75lb. I thought I had done enough to win the section and finish on four points but I still needed that 21lb margin over Steve to record a higher weight and take the overall prize. I hauled out my two keepnets bulging with fish and weighed them in three lots: 30lb, 34lb, then 16lb giving me a total of 80lb for a section win and that crucial winning margin.

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Battling Kapiti’s monsta bug Craig Hipson - Dive Kapiti

Whilst out diving and spearfishing around the beautiful Kapiti Island, I spotted this big ‘fulla’ hiding in a shallow hole in 3.5m of water. When I first saw the feeler and leg through the weed, I thought, ‘Cool, there’re two nice looking crays!’ As I got closer it became obvious it was one, not two, I had seen.

I came to the surface to do my breath hold prep. Ready to do battle, I dived down, grabbed both horns and gave a good hard yank - and out he came. At this point I was still unsure of the size.

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degrees upstream so that the zeddy should be touching bottom by the time it swings past me. I prefer using a fixed spool eggbeater reel and let the lure swing through an arc with little or no retrieve; the aim is to get that nice feeling of the zeddy bouncing off the bottom, before taking a step and repeating the process.

My preference is Amazing Baits zeddies, general 22g. I’m not fussed on colour but will change and mix them up if not getting hits depends on my mood.

Anyway, my mood certainly lifted this Christmas when I came up trumps with a solid salmon around midday. I managed to slip out again Boxing Day and scored another just as the sun was rising - now that was a bonus.

Although, the girlfriend might not agree.

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Roden read riot act!

out of line.

Dear Ed, It was disappointing to read Mark Roden’s comments seemingly laying the blame on the poor condition of the Tasman and Golden Bay sea floors on the commercial fishery, in his Are the kingies here yet? article in the December issue.

There are many reasons for the turbidity (sludge) that is affecting the bottoms of both bays and laying the blame on the commercial fishing industry is ignorant and wrong.

The commercial fishing industry does have an impact on the sea floor, as do many other industries and human practice, of which, many happen ashore with the consequence of the practice being washed down our fresh water ways and out to sea, affecting both the sea floor and water quality.

Mark should think about the old saying, shit runs down hill (and ends up in the sea). Every time it rains our bays suffer more silt, sludge, rubbish, and sewerage washing out to degrade our once pristine oceans.

The wetlands, swamps, and estuaries are the kidneys and livers of our rivers and oceans. With many of these having been modified and combined with herbicides and pesticides fertilisers and storm water, and being washed into our bays with every rainfall, I find Mark Roden’s comments

There are many parts of our bays that are not commercially fished, yet the ocean floor in these places is not pristine either.

Only when we clean up our fresh water ways, restore wet lands, and replant the banks of our rivers, creeks, and streams to deal with the silt run off from farming,forestry and subdivisions, will we see improvements in our bays’ sea floors.

We need not point fingers because we all (including our forefathers )have played a part in the degradation of our water ways and oceans.

Hika Rountree Ex commercial fisherman current marine farmer, amateur fisho and whitebaiter Golden Bay

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Dear Ed, With regard to Allan Cooper’s letter in the January issue, there is major unease within the salmon fishing community on what is happening within Central South Island Fish & Game.

There are two major irrigation schemes drawing water from the Rangitata River: Rangitata Diversion Water Management [RDR] and Rangitata Water Limited. Both schemes have operational standards as part of the consent process for their fish screens.

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Game have been presented evidence that casts doubt on the effectiveness of the Rangitata Water Limited screen. Mckinnon’s Creek hatchery is also still supplying thousands of smolt to RDR to test their screen, which has been operational for many years, indicating all is not well with this operation also.

With the chairman of Central South Island F&G also being the owner of Rangitata Water Limited and in a water sharing arrangement with the RDR, many are questioning the ethic of this, with the words conflict of interest flashing before their eyes Apparent inactivity from F&G to make sure both operators are within the terms of the consents only adds fuel to the fire that all is not well within this organisation, and that their statutory obligations are being overlooked to the detriment of the fishery and the expectation of those who purchase a licence.

Ken Lloyd (Abridged) Christchurch

Another Lloyd a bit shitty!

Dear Ed, My how times have changed!

Or should I say, how Nick Smith has changed?

How Nick Smith M.P. has jumped the fence since becoming Conservation Minister and now Environment Minister!

I came across a report where in July 1996 Nick Smith spoke the following wise words to the NZDA Conference: “Extermination of wild deer was not achievable nor necessarily desirable. Since the introduction of deer in the late 19th century, attitudes to deer have undergone radical changes.”

He went on to say it was undeniable that New Zealand had benefited from introduced species such as farmed animals like sheep, dairy cows, cattle and deer. So he argued (wisely) trout and wild deer were assets But since becoming Minister of Conservation he has supported DoC dogma that actively promotes the killing of all feral deer on sight. Apart from that U turn, the ‘kill every deer’ has resulted in human deaths through hunters whacking any deer over.

Overseas governments have game management not wholesale killing, game season regulations, and hunter training.

To take an animal overseas require a full identification of animal gender test but here, only that it’s got four legs!

DoC and Nick Smith in particular have a lot to answer for!

water. There is a sign about water skiing on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays from midday to 5.00pm.

A few weeks back my fishing buddy and I started fishing on a Friday morning. About 9.00am this ape with his boat starts going up and down, so we had to pack it in.

The same on the Monday; at 8.00am he’s there again.

These days are for fishing, with a 5.00pm limit.

I was a ranger for seven years and had talked to him a few times about being there on fishing only days, and I got the big, “Piss off, I can come here when I want!”

I found out the lake comes under Maritime NZ so phoned them, dropped them a line, and got nowhere - they didn’t want to know.

Please help.

Terry Trout Nelson (Name supplied)

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Versatility, stealth, and sit on top fishability!

Daryl Crimp

Kingfish from kayaks - an up close and personal buzz.

Kayaks have made ocean and freshwater fishing accessible to a wider cross section of fishers, with age, gender, fitness, financial status, and experience less restricting than in the trailer boat or launch markets. Of huge appeal is the minimal investment required to get into kayak fishing, but the benefits go far beyond the wallet.

Sit-on-top kayaks such as the Ocean Kayak range, with their inherent stability and self draining scuppers, are essentially highly mobile, portable, and lightweight platforms that bring fishers into close proximity to the fish they target, and probably offer more flexibility than other conventional water craft but, as with anything, there is a skill set to be mastered and basic safety principles still apply.

Environmentally friendly, they also provide great low impact exercise, but really shine when it comes to fishability. Because of their low profile, stealth qualities, and soft construction, kayaks can out-fish larger rigid hull vessels, particularly with big cagey fish like snapper. Of course the skill of the angler comes into play, and the ability to find and recognise target rich country, but there is also a tendency amongst kayak fishers not to overlook close ground under their feet; boats tend to head off yonder and can miss fertile grounds close to shore.

Kayak fishers are no longer at a disadvantage to the ‘bigger boat brigade’, who have the luxury of space to accommodate an astonishing array of kit, gadgetry, and electronics. Advances in kayak design, as with Ocean Kayaks, means they are constructed with accessorising in mind, which allows you to ‘add on’ as your experience and wallet dictate. The stability of Ocean Kayaks sit-on-tops also provide anglers with support and confidence when tackling big fish, and modern ergonomic design features reduce fatigue so that performance and safety aren’t compromised.

Add to this the fact that you can launch them yourself, in a wider variety of locations than a boat, and you use them to access difficult land-based spots, sit-on-tops add a different perspective to fishing.

At one level they cater to those who enjoy the solitude of solo fishing, but there is also the social element of fishing with like-minded kayakers, while retaining the independence to make your call on how and where you drop a line.

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Mediterranean Fanworm menace Felicity Spiers

Help us stop the spread of Fanworm. Clean your hull before you set sail this summer.

Auckland’s Waitemata Harbour and inner Hauraki Gulf, as well as parts of Whangarei Harbour.

But it’s not just a North Island problem. Some vessels, both recreational and commercial, have also been found in the Marlborough Sounds, Nelson and Picton Marinas with fanworm on their hulls or in the sea chests of the larger vessels.

During the recent Christmas holidays, a yacht was found in the Marlborough Sounds with fanworm growing on the hull. The owner has since had the fanworm cleaned off carefully at a recognised haul out facility.

What’s the problem?

The Mediterranean Fanworm (aka Sabella spallanzanii) may look enchanting underwater but don’t be fooled. This nasty pest has the potential to starve our native marine species of food and living space, threaten our dive tourism and stunt the productivity of our mussel farms and it could be hiding under your boat’s hull.

Fanworm is an unwanted marine animal not native to New Zealand.

Typically found in harbours and estuaries, it lives inside a tube and extends its feeding fan out the top end.

It was first detected by NIWA research divers carrying out surveillance for marine pests for The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) at Lyttelton Harbour in 2008, followed by detection in Auckland’s Viaduct Basin in 2009.

Since 2008, fanworm has become well established in many parts of

Fanworm grows fast and forms dense colonies. Worms can grow more than 600mm in length and the larvae settle on boat hulls, where they quickly grow into adult worms.

If you haven’t taken your boat out in the past year and given it a good clean and antifoul, you could unknowingly be harbouring a fanworm colony on the hull or keel of your vessel. When

you set sail next, you could be giving this army of worms a free ride to a new marina or harbour.

Fanworm can do real damage to our marine environment by stealing other animal’s food sources, clogging dredges, fouling fishing gear and threatening mussel beds and farms.

What you can do to help To help us stop the spread of fanworm to our beautiful bays and harbours in the South Island, Stewart Island and the rest of New Zealand, we’re asking you to clean your hull before you set sail this summer. You can do this by either getting your boat lifted and giving the hull a wash off to remove all biofouling, or arranging for a complete hull clean and antifoul if you haven’t done this for a while.

What we’re doing to help MPI is working with the Marlborough District and Nelson City Councils to eliminate fanworms found in the Picton and Nelson Marinas.

We are also working with the Southland Regional Council, DOC and the Fiordland Guardians to keep this pest out of Fiordland’s unique marine environment and NIWA is conducting research on the fanworm in Lyttelton.

If you’ve seen the Mediterranean fanworm in areas other than Lyttelton, Picton or Nelson marinas, please call the MPI Pest and Diseases hotline on 0800 80 99 66.

Visit www.biosecurity.govt.nz/pests/ mediterranean-fanworm for more information on fanworm and keeping boat hulls clean.

Harbour Views

By Dave Duncan

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Alternatives to drowning!

Nelson Harbour Master staff have been very impressed with the amount of safety equipment people are now carrying on their vessels. Regular inspections and call ins from our staff have received a really positive response from the public, and we are grateful for that.

However, and I know there is always a but, several people having the safety gear didn’t really know how to use it. Here is what we recommend.

• read the instructions on the flare packet before nightfall and practice the motions without actually setting the flare off. If it makes you nervous, leave it in the packet and talk yourself through it.

• have you got a radio licence. Great idea, the best to have a VHF, did you know you need a licence for one. Call 0800408090 to find out how!

• do you have a grab bag or something tied to you that you can guarantee you will have with you if you end up in the water. In six years in Nelson I have witnessed no less than five people go overboard from other boats. If you even carried a waterproof torch or an inflatable belt like the paddle boarders, you have hugely increased your chance of survival.

• if you have the safety equipment, is it readily accessible in a bag or do you have to rummage through lockers once the boats upside down or half sunk? I am sure you get my drift.

• is your cell phone glad wrapped and inside a plastic bag or just in your pocket ready to work perfectly after being dunked in the drink ( do they do that)?

Recently, two children were nearly swept out to sea when an inappropriate inflatable was used on the beach in an offshore breeze. A 30 knot offshore breeze. As they drifted out, a heroine and hero combined to save them both, with the assistance of the coastguard. The hero told me afterwards he was worried and thinking, “It’s usually the rescuer that drowns!” Fortunately, that wasn’t true in this case and all were recovered alive and well. However, I would have to encourage you all: if going to a rescue - first thought, can I do this? Second thought, do I have a plan B to get back myself?

If in doubt - don’t go out!

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Boat show with altitude

New Zealand’s highest boat show.

Pete Rainey - organizer

At 800m (2624ft), the NZ Antique & Classic Boat Show is the highest altitude boat show in New Zealand, with mountain scenery making a perfect backdrop.

Action takes place on the foreshore of Kerr Bay, Lake Rotoiti, framed by the twin St Arnaud and Spencer Ranges - one of the most stunning settings for a show of this kind anywhere in world. That, and the classic beauty of old wooden clinkers,

Something for everyone.

Photo credit: Alan Doak

replica steamers and classy speed boats makes this show something special.

From early morning you can wander around the boats on land, chat with the owners, view displays with stories of restoration and rebuild, and then watch the races on the lake in the afternoon. It’s a lot of fun, from the slightly chaotic sailpast, to the Seagull dinghy race with its Le Mans start; nearly always with a couple of motors that won’t start, and last year a surprise entry from a cheeky boatie with two Seagulls mounted on his dinghy.

A recent trend sees the return of race-winning speed boats of the 60s, including Elray III, one of the fastest boats on the lake in that era. It is hoped Elray’s refurbished big block chev engine will fire up again at this show.

Another attraction is the Nelson Lakes Classic Boat Museum in St Arnaud village. Several of the display boats will be at the lakeside on show, but those that are too big to move will stay in the museum. This includes a new acquisition, the cutter Resolution gifted to museum by the Outward Bound Trust. The 32ft kauri replica of Captain Cook’s cutters was built in 1976 for the Outward Bound fleet and the plan is to have it restored, surveyed and available for community groups to use.

Judging will take place on Saturday, ahead of an evening

Photo credit: Alan Doak

awards ceremony at the Alpine Lodge. At stake is the Jens Hansen Trophy, awarded for good looks, craftsmanship and the boat’s history.

Other awards include prizes for best new restoration, best steamboat, best jet-propelled craft, and best themed display.

Races will be held for yachts, row boats, Seagull motored dinghies, poppers, canoes, child rowers, and swimmers.

Food and drinks will be on sale, the area is adjacent to the Mainland Island bird recovery project, so no antique and classic dogs please; and the fashion advice is not to wear blue, a colour known to attract bumble bees. .

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The Seagull has landed!

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John Deere Tin Signs - The Perfect Gift

Transporting your kayak It is the time of the year when everyone is out and about with their kayaks. Safety isn’t something that stops when we finish paddling. The consequences of having a kayak fall off the roof when driving are significant, so ensure that your load is safe.

Here are some suggestions for getting your kayak(s) to and from the water.

How to carry There are numerous ways to carry your kayak and the method you choose will depend upon the kayak you have and the vehicle you drive. The simplest method is to strap the kayak to a set of roof rack bars.

Many kayaks will sit nicely upside down and can be strapped on without any fear of damaging the kayak. Certain kayaks have more complex deck shapes with various fittings that will not allow it to sit well upside down. For these kayaks you will need to transport them up the right way. Unless your kayak has a very flat hull, having some form of support is essential. A slightly rounded hull tied to a flat roof rack will cause the kayak to warp and possibly even cause cracking around the scupper tubes. The simplest form of support is a set of kayak cradles. These conform to the shape of the hull and hold the kayak securely on the roof.

Securing Regardless of how you carry your kayak, it is important to have it secured to your roof so that it cannot move. Tie it on with webbing straps that will not stretch. Bungy cord, bike tubes or any other stretchy fasteners will not hold the kayak securely.

Cam straps are ideal as they are easy to use.

Avoid any straps that have a plastic buckle.

For the John Deere fanatic in your life

Carrying two kayaks

In most cases, trying to carry two kayaks becomes more of a challenge. Ideally we would sit them side by side, but most car roof racks are not wide enough to allow this.

Some, usually more recreational styled kayaks, have a deck that is shaped to allow kayaks to easily stack on top of each other. Stacking one on top of another is a suitable method for carrying two. The most common solution is to carry one or both kayaks on their edge. To do this, a ‘J’ styled kayak carrier is used. These sit the kayak on an angle or completely on their edge. Follow the instructions to ensure they are securely fitted to the roof. Kayaks create a lot of wind resistance, so it is important that the ‘J’ bars are made with strong aluminium or steel tubing.

We have just received our latest shipment of signs and to kick it off we have a brand new range of John Deere signs. The perfect gift for a tractor fanatic. There are heaps to choose from.

You can also choose from cars to fishing, to vintage garage signs. There is a theme to suit any ‘Man Cave’, shed, bach or bar. The range is huge and there are heaps of themes.

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Check the load

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Excitement is oozing from my every pore ‘cos its twelve degrees at twelve noon. There’s a southerly wind, there’s scattered showers and there’s unbounded joy amongst my kind.

Nationwide, pig hunters will be sprouting wings, morphing from homebodies and workingmen like a horde of bug-eyed locusts. As one they’ll be willing their watches towards knock-off. As one they’ll soon emerge from their homes, all similarly clad in drab olive polar fleece. The unseasonable cold weather will have them collaring unfit pig dogs and wheelspinning off to bush and backcountry.

Personally, I’m driving myself and my unfit dogs southwards. Into the teeth of the approaching weather front we go, me singing out loud and very badly. Diesel fill at Renwick - ten degrees, spits of horizontal rain. I shiver with cold and with delight.

Yeah baby, bring it on.

For week upon week I’ve been suffering the agonies of pig hunting withdrawals. Its been too hot to risk my dogs to the dread heat exhaustion.

Too many blowflies, too much sun, rampant wildfires, an early and unprecedented ‘big dry’. But not today: today its cold and like all those fellas in all those utes, in all their drab olive kit, I’m off to expend some energy and run the mutts and have an outdoor’s adventure.

Six degrees at six o’clock - now this is serious December cold. I don’t want to get out of the truck and the dogs don’t want to get out of the dog box. I wish I’d brought a warmer jacket!

When I do emerge with rifle in-hand, the southerly is blowing rain directly into my left ear.

My hair is quickly saturated; shoulder-length it channels moisture down my nape. It’s downright uncomfortable, as is that first breakthrough backslider. That little wet sneak that pauses in the

small of my back before diving, gravity-driven, off my tail bone and into the chasm below.

“On a distant clearing, sheltered from the buffeting wind, I spy black. Pigs. One big boy, a coloured sow, and a couple of weaners.

They’re grubbing hungrily in the bracken, rooting for shoots.”

Bolt and Pip come and go as I trudge up the ridge amidst the full fury of the southerly storm.

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On a distant clearing, sheltered from the buffeting wind, I spy black. Pigs. One big boy, a coloured sow, and a couple of weaners. They’re grubbing hungrily in the bracken, rooting for shoots. Despite the afternoon rain, the dirt is dust-dry and hard.

The little fellas frisk and fidget while Mama and Papa dig with great zeal. Strong muscular necks and tough snouts enable them to plough furrows into the dirt. They grub, flick, chomp - grub, flick, chomp. Mmmm, stringy fern root, yum.

I pause, assess and plan. I alter my route to get the wind into my face, and into the dogs’ noses. By rights, the foraging pigs won’t smell us coming they’ll be taken by surprise. I want the big boar. Of course I do, in minutes he’ll be mine.

The clearing not only shelters the pigs from the wind, its complexities create waves and whorls and backdrafts. Dogs’ noses capture erroneous scentmessages. Dogs overshoot startled pigs. Big pigs make good their escape, the sow trotting right past me. Little pigs, young and dumb, hunker down in the rooting like ostriches with their heads in the sand. Pip, ignoring the bolting biggies, grabs a weaner. Game over.

Disappointed and boar-less I shake my head, swear a little and shrug. Bugger.

Said boar-less pig hunter plods back to the truck, rubber boots farting and squelching at every stride.

Her nose is pink, her lips are blue but, despite the wet buttocks and the balls-up, her smile is right side up, for she has hunted, run the mutts and had a summer adventure.

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Optically Speaking - with Ant Corke Choosing the right magnification for your thermal imager

Brady’s buck literally bumped into him.

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We got there about an hour before dark. Fully camouflaged up and sprayed with Scent-A-Way, we separated, Brady, quietly doing the close swamps and I took the forest track, straight down towards Waioneki.

It was steaming hot. Brady sat on the track for a while, cooling down and waited. I moved out onto the farmland behind Monks and used a crest of a hill as a vantage point to see what was feeding down below in the open.

Scoping between two tangles of marram grass, I saw a number of deer but one stood out. I couldn’t see its head but it was with a smaller deer and the same colour, bright ginger. I decided to see how close I could get, thinking it was a hind with yearling. I dropped back out of sight and worked my way around and down to the swampy lower ground.

I was wearing my light rubber boat shoes to reduce noise and crept to within 20 yards of the big one.

Then, I ran out of cover. I still hadn’t seen its head so I put the Rainguard cross in the centre of its

massive body - so as to save meat - and fired a 130 grain silvertip into its side. The little one jumped up and looked at me. It was a full-size hind. I looked at the one I had just killed, a massive stag. I couldn’t believe it or move it. It was the heaviest fallow deer I have shot.

Brady heard my shot and looked towards my position. Something else had heard my shot and was moving towards Brady. He froze, he heard branches breaking and twigs snapping as it came crashing towards him through the trees. Then he saw it and drew his rifle up. It kept coming and he waited; it was unaware of his presence. Then it filled the entire scope and broke out of the woods and onto the track right in front of him. He let rip and it went straight down, like a sack of peeled potatoes. It was also a stag. He carried it back to the car and I was back there waiting. Took the picture and then we went for mine.

By the time we got back it was dark, but two happy hunters drove home with Clint’s new car scraping the back guards.

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Since my last article, the festive season came and went in a flash, and the time this article is printed, we will already have begun the last month of summer. It’s time to start kitting-up for the Roar!

Anyone who has followed my column will appreciate the advantage of owning a Pulsar Quantum Thermal Imager for spotting, identifying, and recovering animals. However, the question that our dealers are most frequently asked is, “Which model is right for me?”.

The Pulsar Quantum XD Thermal Imager is fitted with a choice of three lenses, with focal lengths of 19mm, 38mm, and 50mm. The price difference for each model is the actual cost difference of the lens, as the higher magnification lenses are larger, and therefore more costly to manufacture because they are made from a very expensive material called Germanium.

A Thermal Imager is also known as an infrared camera, and like any camera, the focal length of the lens, for any given sensor size, determines both magnification and field-of-view. The shorter magnification produces a less magnified image, but displays a larger field-of-view, and can be considered as a wide angle lens. As the focal length of the lens is increased, the image becomes larger, and the field-of-view becomes narrower.

A high focal length lens can be considered as a telephoto lens. This is an important consideration when choosing a hunting thermal imager, as the type of lens fitted to the thermal must be chosen in accordance with the type of hunting that the thermal imager will be mainly used.

Applying this principle to a Pulsar Quantum XD thermal imager, the model choice can be selected as follows:

Pulsar Quantum XD19s This model has a 19mm focal length lens, and is considered a wide angle configuration. The field-of-view is 26.8˚ x 20.8˚ and the magnification is 1.1x magnification, zoomable to 2.2x and 4.4x.

This model is ideal for use at close range, such as bush stalking and night hunting, when field-ofview is more important than magnification. The 1x magnification also enables a hunter to walk at night whilst looking through the thermal.

The Pulsar Quantum XD19s was my first choice for spotting pigs from a helicopter during an eradication programme on Farewell Spit.

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Though the field-of-view is reduced to 11˚x8.3˚, the base magnification is 2.8x, zoomable to 5.6x and 11.2x. This model is ideal for spotting animals at great distances, such as deer at 1.8km or further.

This thermal imager is ideal for spotting animals lurking on the bush edge of distant hillsides.

Pulsar Quantum XD38s This thermal imager is our recommended model for general hunting. It has a 38mm focal length lens, displaying a field-of-view of 14.4˚x10.8˚, with a base magnification of 2.2x, zoomable to 4.4x and 8.8x. This model is considered to have a ‘standard’ lens, which is ideal for spotting deer at up to 1.5km.

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The man who fed us Hawks Daryl Crimp

“If I’d written the truth - no one would have believed it!”

Grant Shanks touches on the irony surrounding the work of fiction that achieved him acclaim and went on to become a New Zealand best seller in its genre. If Grant Shanks doesn’t ring a bell, try Andrew Grant, author of the recently reprinted adventure thriller based around the venison recovery era, Hawks. Andrew Grant Shanks became Andrew Grant when he switched from writing non-fiction to trying his hand at penning a novel and he says the nom de plume was really a branding exercise to keep the two disciplines separate.

He was as ‘apprehensive as hell’ as to how Hawks would go but any fears were unfounded, because it initially sold over 10,000 copies and was reprinted late last year. Already, the first reprint has almost sold out, so what makes Hawks still so popular after nearly 20 years?

Grant believes Kiwis have a fascination for that era because it really was the last frontier, the Wild West where there weren’t many rules and what rules were there, were there to be broken. It was Sundance Kid stuff but the cowboys rode choppers and they swaggered into the pub at the end of the day in bloodied jumpsuits, and toting guns - literally.

“Let’s face it,” says Grant, “ it was dangerous as shit!”

He says Kiwis love the idea of the maverick, free spirited individual who plays hard and punches harder, and Hawks certainly delivers on that score, with enough treachery, sabotage, murder and mayhem, to satisfy any thriller junkie. But did any of it really happen? And that takes us back to the irony of Grant’s opening statement, but when pushed, he becomes as cryptic as some of his plots.

“Let’s just say, I know where a few skeletons are buried!”

While ostensibly a work of fiction, Grant was on the periphery of the ‘venison wars’, so the book is based on fact.

“I was a spectator to the chopper boys,” he says, “and I spent all my spare time hunting Fiordland.”

Grant had cousins and school friends who were chopper pilots, and he drew heavily on his association and involvement with these characters

when writing the book.

“The central character, Gray, is a composite of three people,” he says, “and many people recognised themselves in the book.”

Grant says the real chopper boys were fully supportive of the book, with many telling him that, “You’ve got it right!” and, “shit, we never swore that much did we?”

According to the author, 70% of the book actually happened but could never have been told factually for obvious reasons. When asked for specifics, he delivers a practiced wry smile and skirts the subject, suggesting some things are best taken to the grave - like the answer to my question, “Are there really unmarked graves out there?”

Grant approaches writing in a fairly organic fashion: when he starts, he never knows the full story and only sometimes has an ending in mind.

He will often start with what he thinks is a good opening and a loose idea on characters, and tends to let the story evolve.

“I’m low on dialogue and high on narrative because I’m very pictorial; I see the characters in my mind’s eye and describe them.”

Grant says he doesn’t get bogged down in detail, preferring to nail a few salient points and letting the story and characters do the rest. It is a formula that obviously works, because the Christchurch author has so far written 16 books, and published a string of thrillers in Singapore.

Written in white When hunting new territory for the first time I always paint a picture in my mind of what it’s going to be like, so when Cossi picked me up at the airport in Albury, Australia, my head was cluttered with images of big fallow bucks. I’d seen Crimpy’s

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evening hunt to check out the property. He wanted me to get a feel for the layout, settle in to a bit of glassing and get used to spotting the animals in such open terrain; it’s not as easy as you might think. It also allowed me to readjust my ‘mental picture’ and prepare for a serious hunt the next day.

Cossi genuinely works hard for his clients and does his best to get them onto really good animals, so much so he is reluctant to let you shoot on that first day.

And believe me it’s tempting.

We were on the property in time to witness first light and as the undulating country crystalized, so too did the forms of deer dotted here and there. We saw quite a number of ‘good’ bucks as we circumnavigated the property, and even came across three really good reds. One fallow caught my eye and I’ll swear it had my name on it, but we didn’t manage to close the gap for a better look before the midday heat caused things to go quiet.

Later that afternoon we returned but that buck had done a vanishing act. Cossi wasn’t fazed because we had time up our sleeve and he knew that I really wanted a close up of the ‘white ghost’, just to make sure the initials on its flank were really mine!

The following morning my luck changed. There was Mr White with a couple of mates, but he was in a challenging position.

We slipped through a fence and belly-crawled Indian-file for 150 metres, which put us in better position to assess the head. Cossi reckoned he wasn’t an absolute monster but a trophy is not always about numbers.

This guy pushed my buttons: he had rarity value being white and those paddles were impressive. I decided to take him and, at 90m, had little difficulty putting the bullet where it was meant to go.

“Funny,” said Cossi as we walked up to the fallen buck,”I can’t see those initials on his rump you were telling me about!”

“Your eyes are going soft on you,” I shot back, “They are written in white!”

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Last month we gained insight into how CRAMAC 5 rose out of the ashes of the relatively uncontrolled competitive commercial fishing era and faced the daunting challenge of managing the New Zealand rock lobster into a healthy sustainable shared fishery.

Key to correcting past mistakes was the acquisition of knowledge and then applying it constructively in the rebuild. Daryl Crimp investigated the data collecting process and discovered amazing gains were made with the help of an unlikely character.

Stand up BERT and take a bow Fundamental to the lobster rebuild and future management was the collection and analysis of data, which had to come from the coalface, so in 1989 Voluntary Logbooks were implemented in CRA 5. Fishermen tagged four pots from which data was collected; they were selected to give a representative sample of each fisherman’s harvest area, and the spread of volunteers ensured that all fishing grounds were covered by at least one logbook vessel.

The system relies on the goodwill of the fishermen and buy in has been strong. To date, CRA 5 has 19 Voluntary Logbook participants, which comprises 75% of the commercial fleet, supplying valuable information in assessing the fishery.

In appreciation, the committee rewards the fishermen and their families with gifts annually.

Doing it manually no fun However, the manual system proved cumbersome and time consuming.

Data was collected on every fishing day, with crew measuring,

transcribing information onto sheets of paper, and then doublechecking for accuracy and legibility before eventually transferring the data manually to a central system.

To put this into perspective, since its inception, the programme has contributed nearly 600,000 measurements.

ago. Replacing the paper logbook, BERT stands for - Best Electronic Recording Terminal!

Apart from proving quicker and more accurate than the old system, BERT also had the advantage of directly uploading data to the server.

BERT is also ‘forward thinking’ and has already been adapted to collect a wider range of data, and will soon expand on this further: fishermen’s personal harvest data, narcosis in CRA 3, tagged lobster information, and, shortly, information from Smart Tags. These will be attached to pots to automatically record date, time, location, seabed temperature, and depth.

The electronic logger has revolutionised data collection.

Crayfish have say in survival

Efficiencies needed to be made The paua industry provided the solution, having already developed an electronic data collection system of their own. CRAMAC 5 adopted the technology, reconfigured the unit, and introduced BERT three-years-

Heaviest kahawai of the competition.

Since the mid-nineties Cramac 5 crayfish have provided direct input into their sustainability through a tagging programme, which has seen 32,000 rock lobster tagged up to 2014. Almost 25% or 7,200 of these tags have been returned and valuable information on growth rates and movement collected, and assessed.

The results have been fascinating

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and enlightening. CRAMAC 5 now knows with certainty that CRA 5 lobster are resident, with almost 100% of data showing inshoreoffshore movements based around biological periods.

In other words, the CRA 5 lobster do not migrate up and down the coast as previously imagined, unlike

the Otago fishery where tags indicate their fish to be quite mobile; tags have shown up in Jackson Bay, South Westland! This type of information is crucial to understanding the dynamics of local populations and managing stocks into the future - not just for commercial interests, but for the benefits of all users in this valuable shared fishery!

The old manual logbooks were labour intensive and time consuming.

From Sinker to Smoker

By Ron Prestage

Challenging Mokihinui Level one was a personal challenge to see if I could still catch Sir David Fagan’s words in an interview after receiving his knighthood for achievements in shearing can explain a lot of a snapper or rig. Level two was the challenge of entering a what I do. competition and seeing if I could get on the results board.

“It’s a lot of fun challenging your mind and challenging your Day two saw a more settled sea with minimal drift to the body and seeing what you can get out of it,” he said. north but still quite stirred up close in. My first cast produced As 2015 drew to a close and my commitments to preschool a good hit, a bend in the rod and a few metres of line pulled. music and The Fishing Paper finished for the year, my cleared No hook-up though and by the look of the retained crunched mind turned to surfcasting on the West Coast. I thought about up bait a rig had been at work. That promising start was it for what I needed to take, where I might fish and how I was going the day. to approach the 10 day Mokihinui Fishing Competition this The third day saw the Tasman Sea looking more like Tasman time around. Some rods and a reel from Crimpy to test only Bay: minimal swell, no drift and patches of clean water added to the occasion and further raised my fishing barometer! coming within the range of the shore fisher. A four hour stint Arriving at my Mokihinui accommodation my first fear was and not even a bite, despite terminal tackle alleviated as I managed to fit all of my changes being made. For a period I went frozen bait into the freezer compartment “As 2015 drew to a close, with the long cast pulley rig over the twoof the fridge-freezer. My next mission was hook ledger rig. In the afternoon my sonto visit the spot on Gentle Annie Beach I my cleared mind turned in-law and grandson arrived, mussels were intended to start fishing from. I tidied up to surfcasting on the track to the beach with a set of forestry gathered and yellow-eyed mullet caught. loppers. Once this was done and the the West Coast.”

Fresh bait gave high hopes for day four. driftwood moved I had a clear pathway, Day four and with four rods in action and always an asset when you are carrying the sea much cleaner, one carpet shark for rods and a large pack. the day was disappointing.

On my first morning I knew my alarm clock was redundant Day five and conditions were close to perfect. There had to as the village roosters started crowing at 4.00am! I had a final be fish in close and sure enough, right on cue a 2kg snapper gear sort out and loaded my tackle box with my chosen rigs. and greyboy were landed. It was pleasing to weigh in a As usual, I couldn’t resist making a few more ‘spare’ pulley rigs and two-hook ledger rigs to add to the already overflowing snapper, caught on a squid tentacle and a long cast pulley rig.

Day six and the only fish I saw caught was a kahawai. box of ‘spares.’

Day seven and a severe drift back in force. Hooked a 2.5kg Christmas Day dawned sunny and with no wind, giving the sea a chance to calm down ready for the Boxing Day start to kahawai on my first cast and the drift took it well down the the competition. With a mid-day high tide, my plan was to be beach. That was it for the day. at the beach ready to go by 9.30am and fish hard until about Day eight the wet weather gear got an airing with a 5.00am 1.30pm. This has proved to be the catching zone in the past. start. Same again at 5.00pm. No fish.

Day one dawned fine and windless, however a northerly drift Day nine was another wet one, which produced a 5kg rig. soon accounted for my first set of gear as it washed the line up Day 10 and another 5kg rig to weigh in before prize giving. onto the beach and pounded it to pieces on the stones! Three Prize giving and barbecue were well organised. Got on the hours of fishing under the mid-day sun produced nothing prize list with the heaviest kahawai and heaviest fish on two but the experience! The challenge of fishing Mokihinui was bedded in. It is never easy. My challenge was on two levels. days. Hard work but a lot of fun.

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Captain’s Log: Shhh... IT HAPPENS! Beam me up spotty a beautiful thing and was made manageable by the division of labour: I only had to cook, take everybody fishing, fillet the catch, and cook again, while Annette did the hard yards with the nightshift and G&Ts. It worked - almost.

After filleting thousands of fish over the years without a nick, I sliced my hand open one night, severing an artery and pumping crimson everywhere. It wasn’t my fault. I’d explained to the zoo of kids on board to keep the bait board clean, as I was about to fillet the quagmire of fish they’d dumped at my feet. They listened attentively and, moments later while I was distracted, covered my knife handle with fish slime.

I’m an idiot - but it’s not my fault.

It should have been the perfect summer holiday: three weeks at the bach, fishing every day.

I put the Big Blue Growly Thing on the mooring, and Daniel voted me best Dad. Anna invited her boyfriend down and I stopped sleeping at night.

The weather was a dream and the fish flowed while cold beers struggled to escape my clutches.

Then an enormous wave swamped me. Kids and friends and kids of friends descended in droves; Mother had bulk-emailed her address book to come and stay.

Don’t get me wrong, the sight of friends arriving on holiday is

We headed back to shore at warp speed. Mother couldn’t take me to A&E two hours away because she was busy with friends, Gynny and Tonik, so I hitchhiked, arriving at midnight. A nice young doctor with granddad beard and waxed moustache stitched me ‘eight’ ways from Sunday and discharged me.

Two nights later I rocked back

into A&E at 1.00am.‘Smiley’s’ dad was there to meet me and find out why ‘Smiley’ wasn’t smiling anymore. I explained that he and the other boys had wanted to go night fishing off the rocks. I agreed under the proviso they all wore headlamps.They listened attentively and, moments later, while running full tit in complete darkness, ‘Smiley’ face-planted the road.

I drove him to A&E because Gynny and Tonik were busy again.

He got the same bed I had.

Smiley is not …

He got the same doctor I’d had; Max with the waxed moustache.

There was a pregnant pause.

He got better treatment - they gave him gas.

“None of this would have happened if Mum and Dad hadn’t got frisky in the summer of ’58,” I mumbled.

Wimp!

Max had breezed in and said, “You musty be Campbell King!”

He then turned to ‘Smiley’s’ dad and said, “ You must be Campbell’s dad!”

Then he turned to me and said, “And you must be… back AGAIN! Is this your handiwork?”

“Well, yes - but it’s not my fault!”

Shhh... it happens!

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The New Zealand Mountain Safety Council (MSC) is urging people to take some basic precautions before setting off on an excursion, even if it’s a short one.

A big part of that is telling someone your plans.

“We want people to have fun in the outdoors, but we also want them to plan, prepare and return safely.”

MSC Chief Executive, Mike Daisley, encouraged people to make use of the Outdoor Intentions form on the AdventureSmart website www. adventuresmart.org.nz to record where they’re going, who they’re with, how well equipped they are and when they expect to return, and pass that information on to a trusted contact.

The email Outdoor Intentions form has recently been upgraded to make it more responsive and mobile, and portable device friendly.

“If anything out of the ordinary happens, someone will have the information they need to raise the alarm.

This could make all the difference in an emergency situation,” Mr Daisley said.

Groups and individuals heading into the outdoors should also follow the 5 basic rules of the Outdoor Safety Code.

They include planning your trip, telling someone your plans, being aware of the weather, knowing your limits, and taking sufficient supplies.

“We want people to have fun in the outdoors, but we also want them to plan, prepare and return safely. There are some really simple steps that can greatly increase everyone’s chances of an enjoyable, safe trip,” Mr Daisley said.

For more information, including the MSC’s recently released outdoor recreation activity guide for day walks, a series of short videos developed with Wild About New Zealand and MacPac, and the MSC’s 50 Favourite Family Outdoor Experiences, visit www. mountainsafety.org.nz

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BASIC RULES Outdoor Safety Code 1. Plan your trip 2. Tell someone 3. Be aware of the weather 4. Know your limits 5. Take sufficient supplies

AVOID THE WORST. PUT SAFETY FIRST.

GUARD AGAINST FAILURE Practical approach to health and safety “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated” – Confucius, a Chinese teacher, editor, politician and philosopher born in 551 BC stated this in his time! With health and safety we all know it’s important to be safe, but we all need systems in place to keep us on track.

These systems are based on legislation, which is important to comply with. For some businesses, in attempting to be compliant, the systems they build are cumbersome and rigid – they, in fact, can fail in their application as the complicated processes put workers off.

You need to engage with your workers in order to build a safe culture. Having processes they can understand is key to this! Guard Safety understand the need to keep things simple for messages to get across – the business was founded

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The Guard Safety personnel have worked in the Maritime Industry for a combined total of 84 years, in roles ranging from Vessel Skipper, Seagoing Engineer, Fleet Manager, MNZ Maritime Officer, Personal Assistant to a General Manager in an aquaculture business, Health and Safety Manager and Health and Safety Advisor for a large corporate.

They hold either / or both, formal maritime / health and safety qualifications and are actively involved with safety organisations such as the New Zealand Institute of Safety Management (NZISM)

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Having apprenticed as a boat builder, Neil then moved into the electrical side of things, amassing over 25 years experience.

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26 THE FISHING PAPER - FEBRUARY 2016 The Sea Detective

Mark Douglas-Home Penguin Random House RRP $37 Paperback thriller A new twist on the thriller genre, an oceanographer-cum-environmentalist ‘detective’ who uses ocean currents, tides, wind patterns, and shipping records to help solve crimes, including this abduction murder twist set in Scotland.

It is an intriguing read with a raft of original, engaging, flawed, and detestable characters, and enough twists, turns and undercurrents to keep you guessing right up to the last chapter. Underscoring the central plot is a more personal mystery that is close to the investigator’s heart and has him digging deep to put some skeletons from the past to rest.

Wonderfully crafted.

8/10

Make Me (Jack Reacher 20) Lee Child Bantam Press/ Penguin Random House RRP $38 Thriller In an interview several years ago, Lee Childs told me he’d become an overnight success after his tenth novel! Now number 20 hits the shelves and is guaranteed instant success: published in 42 languages and 97 territories, and with sales exceeding 100 million books, Reacher is a billion dollar brand, with a book sold somewhere in the world every 20 seconds!

Make Me is classic Reacher; pure escapism with no holds barred and an irreverent disdain for etiquette and The Queensbury Rules. Reacher, a modern knight errant, roams the earth putting the wrong right. Appearing out of nowhere heading somewhere, Jack Reacher stays long enough to solve the mystery, kick snot out of the baddies, and then shoot the baddies in the back of the head for good measure.

While formulaic, Child’s is the master of his genre and again delivers a pacy, suspenseful thriller with his trademark twist at the end. The gratuitous violence seems elevated, probably because its lost its point of difference after 20 novels.

Great reading 8/10.

Star Pick!

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With a Father Like Mine

M.O Chamberlain Publisher SHIHVillage Books RRP $32.99 Autobiography An autobiographical account of growing up as a product of an alcoholic father, With a Father Like Mine is a thought provoking and insightful read. Set against a backdrop of growing up in provincial New Zealand in a ‘flawed and dysfunctional family’, the story unravels to follow the life journey of Chamberlain, elements of which would be the envy of many. The spectre of the drunken father is not as horrific as one might have imagined, rather a pained and flawed character, but of interest is the cumulative impact of his legacy.

Chamberlain retrospectively autopsies his past, trying to reference the connections to his upbringing. At times enlightening, it also flickers between apportioning blame for perceived inadequacies, which accents Chamberlain’s angst and confusion as a result of his past.

Worth the read.

6/10

New Zealand Backcountry Cooking

Paul and Rebecca Garland Potton & Burton RRP $40 Cookbook A desire to rise above the ‘stodge’ of eighties tramper’s food, the Garlands embarked on a thirty-year natural evolution that is manifest in this wonderfully produced book. More a guide than a lay down misere, the book gives ideas on food selection, preparation, and cooking for the outdoors, utilising various techniques such as dehydrators and vacuum packers, and pre-preparation at home.The recipes are contemporary, colourful, nutritious, and hugely diverse; from panfried noodle cakes, lamb kebabs on buttered couscous, to biscuits, breads, dumplings, crumpets, pizzas, paella, and puddings. A comprehensive tome with a tonne of information, techniques, tips, and tempting pictures, this is a ‘must have’ reference book for any outdoors enthusiast.

9/10

All reviewed by Daryl Crimp

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Mixed bag the life of cod

By Ivan Wilson

Mark Roden

Well heeled beggars Sometimes you work hard for a fish.

Overnight winds blew strong and gusty so there was a brief thought of not going - glad I did though. Ramp-side there were hordes of empty boat trailers and the cacophony of throaty engines vibrated the air.

Recent misty rain had been falling and the lake was a bit higher, so in between the trees to the backwaters we went, well away from the wake and waves caused by the fizz boats.

The vegetation meant a technique adjustment to a short line, watching the back-cast, and also roll-casting to avoid losing the trusty pheas’ tail nymph to a tree behind you.

Fish were feeding and I watched the first ‘take’ of the day close to the boat; it took

moment I had three trout circling around towards the nymph. They were often very close to the boat so no fly-line was needed and it was a case of merely flicking the leader over the side and watching the fish eat the artificial - floating stalks.

A number of trout conveniently unhooked themselves in the net, so it was just a case of pointing them in the right direction and tipping them out. Then I came to a narrow off-shoot channel and wondered where it went, but it appeared to fizzle out. However amongst the overhanging foliage there was a sharp left turn, opening out into a hidden reach with fish rising. Magic!

After picking up several more fish, it was

With a mighty swirl, it was hooked!

off back towards the lake, through the trees around a stump, through a patch of reeds, around a fallen branch, another stand of reeds, plus another tree for good measure… fly-line macrame’.

I had to follow it around the first patch of reeds, then the branch was negotiated but the boat got jammed between the next reeds and two trees. I kept manoeuvring with the oars until, after 10 minutes, I had the Osprey into open water, plus a good sweat up in the morning sunshine. The fish surprisingly was still there so it was played, netted, and released. Some hard work to start off what became a brilliant day.

I drifted along with the wind; plenty of fish moved about on the feed and at one magical

time to head home to prep for the first day back at work after the holidays. Back at the ramp I waited while a couple of other boats were pulled out. This ramp is maintained through the donations of those utilising the facility - well some of them!

I’ve had discussions with a local about how people use the honesty box and it seems there is very little in the way of launching fees put in. People with 80K boats, 80K vehicles, and the rental or re-payments on a substantial holiday house, feel it’s their right to launch for free.

In my opinion, they’re spongers who want the facility but are happy to let others pay their way – such arrogance beggars belief. It’s $2 for goodness sake!

“Been out lately?” I get asked that all the time – and of course I’d love to say, “Yeah mate, nearly every day,” but of course that would be a lie. Over the holiday break we seemed to get a one-day window once a week or so. Yes, there were mornings when you could have sneaked out for a quick fish but I’m getting picky in my middle(um yeah right) age and if the forecast isn’t 10knots variable for the whole day, I’m staying on dry land.

The other factor that affects us spearos is water visibility. We didn’t get the clear blue water into Tasman Bay this year, or if we did, it was very quickly stirred up by the rain storms over the New Year. However, we did get out and have a few great days – kingfish have generally been off the agenda due to the below average visibility, although there have been some speared and the spat farm off the Mot river mouth has produced a few, mostly small fish but good to see them in big schools.

A recent trip up to Port Hardy on the north west of d’Urville was great, with around five metres of vis and plenty of fish – biggest cod was 48cm although out of four spearos only about five cod came on board; yes there were plenty of legal fish around, but 33cm? I don’t know anyone that would keep a cod that small, fisho or spearo, not worth filleting.

We stopped off at the Rakiura Rocks, a

Nigel Bethwaite with a john dory.

nice spot although big tides on the day meant the current was running so we were a bit restricted. I stayed near the boat and got a few butterfish while Nigel did a tiki tour around the whole area and was rewarded with a nice john dory. Good time of the year to start looking for a JD, as there are plenty of small fish about. We see them on the weedy edges and guts between big rocks. When we see clouds of little baby spotties there’s a good chance a JD or two will be about hoovering them up with that big vacuum mouth. As Crimpy says, it’s good to spend some time targeting different species, as it is great to come home with a mixed bag and it takes a bit of pressure off the cod and snapper.

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Cast Back in Time Seething with snapper Pete Beach

Bob Harley together with Ivan Wells arrived at my home.

After a coffee break Bob suggested that we go to Rabbit Island and christen the new snapper net he had just built. After discussing the net it was agreed it would take a minimum of four men to drag, but there were only three of us.

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As we were approaching Pea Viner corner we spotted big Mort Maxted out mowing his lawns, which was halted immediately and four of us were on our way.

After unloading the boat, ropes and net I was duly nominated to row out 200 yards of rope, set the net parallel to the beach and row a further 200 yards of rope back to the shore where one of the men would be waiting for me. I was the only swimmer, hence the short straw.

The mission was completed and with two men on each end, we commenced pulling the net in. The first hundred yards was relatively easy, but we then almost came to a halt. Fortunately the tide was making and the waves were breaking, so after a long struggle we eventually beached the net. It was seething with snapper.

By this time quite a crowd had gathered and every person on the beach took home a snapper. After loading our dinghy, ropes and the balance of the fish into Ivan’s vehicle, we proceeded to Pearl Creek where we cleaned the remaining 320 snapper.

From here it was back to The Travellers Rest where most patrons received a fish, while we indulged in a well-earned beer. Bob and Ivan proceeded on their merry way back to Nelson, stopping at most pubs along the way to deliver fish!

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Kawhia H+0:24 L+0:00 Opononi H+0:05 L+0:02 Patea H+0:34 L+1:00 Pouto Point H+0:41 L+0:36 Whanganui River Entrance H+0:19 L+0:28

Westport 2.5 2.5 1.0 1.0 0.9 0.7 0.5 0.4 0.2 3.3 3.4 3.3 3.2 3.1 2.9 2.8 0.7 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.5 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.0 2.9 2.8 2.7

20:34 21:22 22:15 23:11

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

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+0:31 L+0:14

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

14:10 14:57 15:48 16:43 17:40 12:35 13:28 14:19 15:09 15:58 16:47 17:37 18:27 13:02 13:55 14:51 15:50 16:53 17:55 12:45 13:39 14:29 15:15 15:57 16:37 17:15 17:53 18:30 12:51

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19:38 20:38 21:33 22:23 23:10 23:54

2.5 2.6 2.7 2.9 3.1 3.2

19:08 19:54 20:42 21:33 22:30 23:34

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19:40 20:48 21:48 22:40 23:24

2.7 2.8 2.8 2.9 3.0

18:25 19:00 19:33 20:07 20:42 21:19 22:01

0.3 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.9

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

14:04 14:49 15:40 16:35 17:33 18:31 13:08 13:58 14:47 15:36 16:25 17:14 18:04 12:55 13:48 14:44 15:43 16:45 17:47 18:46 13:19 14:08 14:53 15:35 16:14 16:52 17:29 18:07 12:44

Wellington

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6:03 0:30 1:11 1:52 2:36 3:21 4:10 5:01 5:55 0:31 1:30 2:29 3:28 4:26 5:23 6:18 0:52 1:47 2:40 3:33 4:24 5:14 6:04 0:46 1:37 2:27 3:17 4:05 4:51

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 Fri Sat Sun Mon

5:25 0:03 0:51 1:40 2:29 3:18 4:05 4:53 5:42 0:19 1:11 2:03 2:57 3:53 4:51 5:51 0:34 1:33 2:32 3:27 4:19 5:07 5:52 0:27 1:10 1:52 2:34 3:18 4:03

2.9 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.9 0.8 0.7 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3 3.5 3.3 3.2 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.0 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.8 3.0

20:11 21:00 21:55 22:52 23:49

0.9 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.9

19:26 20:19 21:09 21:58 22:47 23:36

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19:41 20:31 21:16 21:58 22:38 23:15 23:52

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18:46 0.8

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12:04 6:45 7:26 8:07 8:50 9:36 10:27 11:22 12:20 6:51 7:48 8:45 9:42 10:38 11:33 12:28 7:12 8:05 8:58 9:50 10:43 11:36 12:29 6:54 7:43 8:32 9:20 10:06 10:50

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

23:45 1.0

1.0 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.0 3.0 3.2 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.6 3.5 0.4 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 0.9 0.9 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.1 0.9

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

18:18 12:45 13:27 14:10 14:56 15:46 16:38 17:33 18:28 13:19 14:17 15:13 16:07 17:00 17:52 18:44 13:22 14:16 15:10 16:03 16:56 17:47 18:38 13:21 14:12 15:00 15:44 16:26 17:06

11:36 6:16 7:06 7:56 8:45 9:33 10:21 11:09 11:59 6:32 7:24 8:19 9:14 10:11 11:08 12:05 6:52 7:52 8:49 9:42 10:33 11:20 12:06 6:36 7:19 8:02 8:46 9:30 10:16

Akaroa H-0:43 L-0:44 Kaikoura H+0:17 L+0:16 Rakaia Mouth H-0:46 L-0:46 Timaru H-1:13 L-1:15 Waimakariri Mouth H+0:10 L+0:10

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17:50 12:23 13:11 13:59 14:47 15:34 16:22 17:11 18:03 12:49 13:41 14:34 15:28 16:24 17:21 18:19 13:04 14:02 14:58 15:51 16:41 17:29 18:15 12:50 13:32 14:15 14:57 15:41 16:25

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

1:38 2:25 3:16 4:10 5:06 6:01 0:26 1:18 2:09 2:59 3:48 4:37 5:28 0:16 1:10 2:06 3:06 4:07 5:08 6:07 0:35 1:28 2:16 3:01 3:44 4:24 5:03 5:43 0:22

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

7:38 8:24 9:14 10:08 11:04 12:00 6:55 7:46 8:36 9:25 10:13 11:02 11:52 6:19 7:13 8:10 9:09 10:11 11:13 12:12 7:02 7:53 8:39 9:23 10:04 10:43 11:21 11:59 6:22

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-0:07

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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

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13:55 14:39 15:27 16:19 17:15 18:11 12:55 13:48 14:39 15:29 16:19 17:09 17:59 12:43 13:36 14:31 15:29 16:29 17:29 18:28 13:08 13:59 14:47 15:31 16:12 16:51 17:29 18:07 12:37

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

20:07 20:53 21:43 22:37 23:31

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18:46 0.4

Gisborne H-1:19 L-1:12 Tolaga Bay (Cooks Cove) H-1:04 L-1:10 Wairoa River Mouth H-1:37 L-1:28 Whitianga H-0:05 L-0:10

Nelson

3.4 3.3 3.2 1.5 1.4 1.2 0.9 0.7 0.5 0.3 4.3 4.3 4.2 4.0 3.8 3.6 3.4 1.3 1.3 1.2 1.0 0.8 0.7 0.6 4.0 4.0 4.0 3.9 3.7

9:34 10:34 11:53 6:56 8:09 9:07 9:54 10:37 11:18 11:59 6:25 7:07 7:50 8:37 9:31 10:39 12:02 7:01 8:21 9:20 10:06 10:45 11:21 11:54 6:06 6:35 7:05 7:36 8:12

Croisilles Harbour H-0:18 L-0:02 French Pass H-2:00 L-2:00 Picton H-0:46 L-1:21

1.3 1.5 1.6 3.2 3.3 3.6 3.9 4.2 4.4 4.5 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.7 0.9 1.2 1.3 3.3 3.5 3.7 3.9 4.1 4.1 4.2 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.9 1.0

16:11 17:10 18:16 13:12 14:14 15:05 15:50 16:33 17:15 17:57 12:41 13:24 14:09 14:58 15:52 16:54 18:03 13:19 14:23 15:15 16:01 16:40 17:17 17:51 12:26 12:59 13:32 14:06 14:44

3.3 3.2 3.2 1.5 1.3 1.1 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.3 4.5 4.5 4.3 4.1 3.8 3.6 3.4 1.3 1.1 1.0 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.6 4.1 4.1 3.9 3.8 3.6

22:15 1.3 23:15 1.4 19:24 20:27 21:23 22:13 22:59 23:43

3.2 3.4 3.6 3.8 4.0 4.2

18:41 19:25 20:11 21:01 21:56 23:01

0.3 0.4 0.5 0.8 1.0 1.2

19:16 20:26 21:25 22:15 22:57 23:35

3.4 3.5 3.6 3.8 3.9 4.0

18:23 18:56 19:30 20:05 20:45

0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.1

ElaineBay H-0:29 L-0:40 Havelock H-0:14 L-0:35 Stephens Island H-0:30 L-0:30

French Pass times are Nelson less 2 hours, and are known to be unreliable.

Boaties use them as a rule of thumb to determine the best times to navigate the pass.

18:37 19:24 20:10 20:58 21:46 22:37 23:28

0.7 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.4

18:56 19:51 20:46 21:42 22:38 23:35

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19:17 20:14 21:09 22:03 22:54 23:42

0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.5

19:00 19:44 20:28 21:12 21:56 22:40

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Dunedin

0.5 0.5 1.8 1.8 1.9 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 2.1 2.1 2.1 2.1 2.1 2.1 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.5

10:51 11:44 6:54 7:48 8:41 9:31 10:19 11:07 11:55 5:50 6:40 7:32 8:26 9:24 10:24 11:27 12:28 7:50 8:46 9:37 10:24 11:09 11:50 5:47 6:27 7:06 7:46 8:27 9:12

Bluff H-2:03 L-2:37 Port Chalmers H-0:12 L-0:49

Not for navigational purposes.

All times corrected for Daylight Savings.

1.7 1.7 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.1 2.3 2.3 2.2 2.2 2.1 2.0 2.0 2.0 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 2.0 2.0 1.9 1.9 1.8 1.7

17:34 18:27 12:36 13:26 14:14 15:01 15:47 16:34 17:23 12:43 13:33 14:26 15:21 16:18 17:18 18:19 19:18 13:26 14:20 15:09 15:56 16:41 17:23 12:31 13:10 13:49 14:30 15:13 16:00

Brighton H-0:25 St Clair H-0:52

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TIDES OF CHANGE

A dropper jig proved lethal on the day for Paul.

By Poppa Mike

JAMES HECTOR

explorer – scientist – leader

By Simon Nathan Published Potton & Burton RRP $45

Think of the surname Hector and what you associate with it. Maybe Hector’s dolphin, or if you once lived on the West Coast like Crimpy did, then you might think of the small settlement of Hector, north of Westport. Then there are the Hector Mountains in Southland and Mt Hector in the Tararua Range, the list is seemingly endless.

As I read this book it quickly became apparent James Hector was an amazing man with an outstanding record of valuable contributions to New Zealand society. This year is the 150th anniversary of the appointment of James Hector as the first government scientist in New Zealand, a position he held for more than 30 years.

Among his many achievements were the establishment of the Colonial Museum, now Te Papa, the New Zealand Institute, now Royal Society of New Zealand, the Colonial Botanic Garden, now Wellington Botanic Garden and weather forecasting, now MetService. He also started a national earthquake recording system, now GeoNet. Although employed as a geologist, he took a special interest in whales and dolphins of New Zealand, building up a large collection of skeletons in the Colonial Museum. He first identified the rare Hector’s dolphin in 1873, naming it electra clancula. It was not until years later the British Museum named it Hector’s dolphin.

The book is a substantial volume, packed with amazing detail on every page, well supported by wonderful historic maps, photographs and sketches made during his geological travels ranging from Martins Bay in Fiordland to Hicks Bay near East Cape. Another feature is his sketches and records of the 1886 Mt Tarawera eruption. The front cover has a wonderful photograph of Hector with the skeleton of a pygmy right whale, outside the Colonial Museum in Wellington, circa 1874.

The clincher for me however is the aerial shot of Hector settlement, mainly housing and services for the nearby coalfields, which Hector first discovered. If you happen to be in the area keep a lookout for the dolphin memorial sculpture on the waterfront.

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Lyndsey and I had intended to go fishing for some time, and the planets finally lined up one Tuesday morning. We initially went to Ohau C, but the morning was very windy so no result.

A change of plans saw us headed to the Pukaki canal opposite the junction with Ohau A. It was there I caught a 19.5lb rainbow on a small fur jig used as a dropper beneath a larger jig.This was mainly to add weight to fish close to the bottom in the heavy current, so that worked.

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We moved on from there to upstream of the farm cages on Ohau A. It was here Lyndsey tried one of his new spinners and got his best ever trout, a 20lb rainbow. From there we moved back to the Pukaki canal where I landed an 11lb male rainbow again on a dropper jig. I also hooked and lost a couple of rainbows, so there is still plenty of action to be had at the canals if you put the time in. And be prepared to mix up your tactics.

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Forty-five snapper caught!

Ron Prestage

The snapper section of the recent Mokihinui Fishing Competition was the stand-out with 45 snapper weighed-in.

Prominent amongst the successful snapper fishers were the Murphy brothers and Bruce Stringer, who between them accounted for half of the daily prizes.

Craig Thin claimed his third overall heaviest fish trophy with his successful strategy of fishing 50lb braid mainline and 150lb mono traces. Heaviest snapper prize went to local Jacob Coleman and heaviest kahawai prize

winner was Ron Prestage.

Local Honorary Fisheries Officer, John Lee, took out the trout prizes with two fish from the flooded Mokihinui River, after he spotted a shag doing very well there! Top lady fisher was Mel Elvin with a 6kg rig. Junior prize winners were Scott Thin with a 4kg rig and Kahn Zielinski with a 0.92kg trout.

In the Kontiki section, Swampy landed the heaviest fish and the Cameron family the heaviest snapper.

Girls’ delight a big boy scream

By Jasmine Campbell

On a recent trip to my Gran’s in Cissy Bay, my dad, little sister, and I headed out for an afternoon fish. We normally get lots of cod and a few other species, and if really lucky a snapper.

This was to be our finest fishing outing, with my little sis first in with her first ever snapper! Lots of high fives before I hooked up with another good snapper and then dad hooked a gurnard. Then we got snapper after snapper, all in the 35-45cm range.

Dad made the call for last drop, while he started to gut and scale our fish. As soon as the weight hit the bottom I felt an almighty whack and the rod nearly doubled over. I screamed! All I wanted to do was pass the rod to dad but he insisted this was my fish and I had to reel it in.

“Lift and wind,” was all I could hear, so I started to pull the fish up the best I could.

By this stage dad was quite excited, as he knew I had a good fish on and was quietly swearing about not having a net on board!

Suddenly we saw colour and this big boy came up! My arms were nearly falling off and all I wanted was to get my best ever snapper on the boat. Dad carefully lifted the fish on board to screams of two girls and I had a great feeling of satisfaction. I could actually catch a really big fish!

Unfortunately the snapper was gut hooked so we had to keep him. Dad was quite keen on releasing him, telling us these big fish are breeders and we already had enough for a feed. We weighed him and he was my PB at 7kg, and was delicious smoked!

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MARINE MAINTENANCE

Steve Dawson

MOBILE MARINE MAINTENANCE NELSON

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FISHING GEAR

6cm x 6cm...................$115 

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4cm x 6cm..................... $85 

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CAMERA

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All prices exclude GST and are subject to a 12 month booking.

PAINT

• • • •

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Phone

027 319 9941

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HARDWARE

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WE DO

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sales@tmcovers.co.nz ( 03 546 6809

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TANNING

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027 307 1324 (Kris) Email: glt@farmside.co.nz

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Based in Nelson with 26 years experience.

Professional service, 4 month turn around on your trophy and a competitive price.

Contact Warren Plum at plumstone@xtra.co.nz or phone (03) 547 9143 for a quote, chance to discuss options and see examples of work.

32 THE FISHING PAPER - FEBRUARY 2016

www.thefishingpaper.co.nz

BAYS BOATING

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Sportsman Series

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Premier Hardtop Series

NEW agents McLay Boats Limited are proud to announce the appointment of Bays Boating as the McLay Upper South Island Dealer.

McLay Boats has one of the most comprehensive ranges of aluminium fishing and trailer boats and Bays Boating are excited to present them to their customers.

New models and boat packages arriving soon so call us and arrange for a boat test.

Start your boating adventure with a McLay Boat today.

Safe boating The team at Bays

STABICRAFT 1600 FISHER

STABICRAFT 1410 EXPLORER

New hull and trailer with NEW 30hp outboard.

Length 4.3 metres, aluminium, pontoon style for stability, self bailing valves.

NEW RELEASE

NEW

STABICRAFT 1650 Fisher fitted with Yamaha 90hp

$

39,895

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$

SMARTWAVE PACKAGES FROM

53,595

hand

Second

STABICRAFT 533 New model with wing style coamingTwo available

$

16,495

QUINTREX 420

HAINES HUNTER SF535

Powered by Suzuki 30hp excellent condition

$

12,995

ONLY

29,995

hand

emo Ex D hrs Low

hand

Very tidy boat

$

Second

$10,590

Second

Fish’r Painted top, underfloor tank, sounder

$

46,995

Powered by Yamaha 115hp, length 5.35 metres, superbly fitted out, Elite-7 Sounder/GPS, fully carpeted, teak capping, deluxe back to back seating.

SECONDHAND MOTORS

OSPREY 400 (2008)

$

11,995

Powered by Yamaha 20hp outboard (2010) 4 stroke. Fully serviced with 3 month warranty.

SECONDHAND BOATS

Yamaha 150hp 4 stroke ............................................ $21,995

Mercury 30hp 4 stroke ................................................$8,995

Osprey 400 Powered by Honda 20hp electric start ..... $10,995

Yamaha 225hp (2002) 4 stroke ................................ $14,995

Johnson 6hp ...............................................................$1,500

Osprey 550cc 75hp E-TEC ........................................ $34,995

Yamaha F115hp (2007) 4 stroke ............................... $14,500

Honda 2hp (2004) ......................................................... $995

Osprey 400 20hp Yamaha 4 stroke

Honda 75hp (2007) 4 stroke ........................................$8,995

Come see us at 15 King Edward St, Motueka

Ph 03 528 5200

sales@baysboating.co.nz - www.baysboating.co.nz

with electric start and tilt ........................................ $12,995

All work carries our warranty