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THE FISHING PAPER & HUNTING NEWS - OCTOBER 2020

Fish Mainland –there to look after South Island fishers’ interests

For these reasons, increasingly fishers have realised the need to be organised and their interests represented to Government and others. This is why a group of fishers designed the member-based Fish Mainland.

Fish Mainland’s membership continues to grow. As of September, 250 individuals and groups had signed up, and this figure tripled when considering some group’s member base.

At the time of writing, Fish Mainland’s membership has increased to over 300.

The September article also refers to it now being timely to consider nominations for five regional representatives to be elected to Fish Mainland’s Board of Directors.

Members receive an email

about Fish Mainland’s first AGM taking place on Saturday, 31 October in Christchurch, and that those who cannot attend will be able to join the AGM and vote via Zoom. Nominations for Regional Directors must be received by Saturday, 17 October.

Besides voting on Regional Directors, the AGM agenda includes several important issues to be discussed before discussing them further with Fisheries New Zealand officials. They include: First, several members having rightly expressed dissatisfaction with some blue cod rule changes along with a lack of consultation before they came into force 1 July.

In seeking members’ view, it has become apparent that changes are needed so that fishers will be able to transit through an area with blue cod taken in another area with a higher daily limit. If such transiting can occur through the inner Fiords, there is no reason it cannot occur elsewhere.

Second, several members have also expressed dissatisfaction with the requirement to land blue cod in a measurable state.

While this requirement seems more applicable for those areas deemed red in the new traffic light system, there are other ways to address problems associated with the catch of under-sized cod.

Third, the September issue of The Fishing Paper (pg. 14-15) also includes an article titled, ‘What’s the Catch?’ that highlights the longstanding problems associated with inadequate information on recreational catch and effort.

The obvious problems are the lack of finescale information poses challenges for 1) designing marine protected areas that minimise impacts on recreational fishing, and 2) advising the Minister on a fair share of available fisheries resources to be allocated to recreational fishers.

Fish Mainland has designed with Fisheries New Zealand a system for fishers to voluntarily report their catch and effort to help ensure fishers’ experiences and opportunities in the future.

Also, this system can provide legitimacy for changes in the traffic light system.

Finally, there is unfinished

business with proposals that would ban fishers’ access to areas that are important to them.

Longstanding recreational fishing areas along the southeast coast, even some inside Dunedin, would be locked up in perpetuity if the marine protected area proposals proceed unchanged post-17 October election.

Recent changes to the Dolphin Threat Management Plan have led to a near ban on recreational set-netting, even in inland waters where recreational fishers’ families have fished for over 100 years without ever seeing dolphins. Our only recourse may well be to file a complaint to Parliament’s Regulations Review (Select) Committee.

Finally, don’t forget to watch Ocean Bounty on TV3 on Saturday, 31 October, which will feature Fish Mainland!

“Not another snag!!”

I watched as Roos (Grace Callaghan) walked back upstream with a big bend in her rod. Having just re-tied her line only two minutes prior, I thought we were in for a long day.

But the “snag” starting stealing line off the reel and it became a race to get the net. After lying deep in the current the fish came to life and before long it was visible from the bank. Making the trip down to Mckenzie Country from Kaikoura, no-one wanted to see Roos lose this fish. It is a long way to travel for the ‘one that got away’.

The fight wore on and nerves only increased.

This was by far the biggest rainbow that Roos had hooked and most definitely the fish of the trip! Eventually the fish rolled over and a

friend of ours, Jo, secured it in the net. The girls were on form getting the job done!

After a few quick snaps the fish was then released to continue on with his breakfast. A stunning rainbow jack in full spawning colours.

A true highlight of a stunning winter fishery!

Now is the time to sign up and have a voice in the future direction of South Island recreational fisheries https://www.fishmainland.nz/

Photo Credit Alisa Mcgilvary-Howard

The September issue of The Fishing Paper & Hunting News has an article on Fish Mainland titled, ‘Rec fishers hammered but there’s hope’ (pg. 2). The article highlights 2020 as an unprecedented year in terms of adverse impacts on marine recreational fishing, and there being no end to the potential impacts in the future.

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The aim of Fish Mainland is to provide a unified voice for the South Island marine recreational fishing community. Its aim is also to demonstrate the ability to work respectfully and collaboratively with others to find workable solutions that provide the best public outcomes.

Its vision is a healthy and abundant marine environment in which recreational fishers have an equitable share of available fisheries resources and are respected partners in management decisions.

The recreational fishing sector is far more numerous, diverse and undefined than the commercial fishing sector and Iwi fishing interests. As a sector, recreational fishers remain largely unknown, except for a small proportion with membership to fishing and boating clubs

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Pond beasts delight kids A shower of food crashes onto the surface and the fish throw themselves into it. An imitation fly sinks naturally with the rest of the pellets. The trout have seen this trick before, a big hook hanging out of food is bad news. Even in the foaming water they manage to avoid the imposter.

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I recently found myself volunteering at a kids trout fishing day hosted in Hawke’s Bay. Yearling rainbow trout are brought in from a hatchery in order to help kids get into the sport.

These are all fish averaging 1-1.5kg, perfect for the kids to fight on the end of a fly rod. The pond also contains around 30 resident fish,

who have lived there for much longer. It was these rainbows who were the ones to look out for.

The technique for fishing a pond like this was to use an imitation pellet. Even though these aren’t wild trout, they require some effort in order to get a bite.

I’d have the kids help me throw the fly out and then they would help give it some movement by tugging on the fly line. The first girl on the rod wouldn’t have been more than five but she was soon hooked up to one of the beasts lurking in the

pond. I showed her how the reel worked and also how to let go of the handle if the fish wanted to run. I gave her a tiny bit of help with the rod since this fish was near pulling the rod out of her hands.

Throughout the day we continued the trend of getting every kid a fish no matter how hard it got.

After a while I needed to swap around to find something the fish would take, so I put on a small tungsten nymph and trailed a smaller floating pellet behind it. When it dropped to the bottom, the buoyancy would keep the fly within trout view and the kids picked up many good fish from this little change. Other flies like soft hackles and small buggers were put to good use too.

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There’s nothing like seeing the kid’s face light up when the fish surfaces near the shore. I got onto the net job and put a stunning hen rainbow onto the bank. This fish weighed over 3kgs and the little girl was over the moon. She could barely hold the trout.

noticed was how good the hook-up rate of #12 hooks was compared to #16. It was so clear, everyone fishing put up their hook size.

Our results were quite amazing at the end of the day. We had three fish exceed 8lbs and many more over 6lbs. The trout varied widely in both condition and colour.

I remember hearing multiple kids say, “Dad, can we go fishing again?�

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THE FISHING PAPER & HUNTING NEWS - OCTOBER 2020

Daryl Sykes sketches the life on a man who has committed so much to his fishery and industry, earning the accolades of his peers, while raising the hackles of the ‘boffins’. Still vital, he recognises new blood is part of evolution and after decades navigating bureaucracy and keeping the lobster industry tiller manoeuvring around obstacles…

The renegade retires from office Patience, perseverance and hard work reap their own rewards and over the past thirty-eight years, Geoff Basher and his wife Kim have consolidated their successful Motunau-based fishing operation.

Geoff started fishing for eels and cockabullies in the creek behind his house in Amberley aged about five. At age 13 he was a student at Rangiora High School, but after school on Friday afternoons he would jump on a train to Christchurch, hitchhike across to Lyttelton to climb aboard a commercial fishing boat and spend the weekend at sea before retracing his journey to be back at school on Monday mornings.

But life is full of good intentions and to the concern of his parents and his teachers, Geoff would often not get back to Rangiora High School until Wednesday morning; and after a year of regular early week absenteeism he was given the parental message that if he wasn’t going to attend school regularly then he should leave and get a job. And he did.

He went to work in the family sawmill at age 14 and earned his living without any favours from the boss.

But he could not get the sea out of his blood and, at 23, he farewelled the timber industry to take a crewing job with Motunau fisherman Kevin Taylor. So far as Geoff was concerned, life was back on track.

He went to nautical school in Nelson in 1983 and obtained his Inshore Fishing

Skipper Ticket. He worked a full season for Kevin Taylor and then Geoff’s uncle announced that he wanted to retire from his fishing business, also in Motunau.

Geoff put his hand up to take over. At the time there was a moratorium on the issue of any new controlled licences in lobster fisheries and John and his uncle had to navigate the long bureaucratic process of transferring ownership from uncle to nephew—the only such transfer approved.

Geoff was a full-time professional rock lobster fisherman, at 24 years of age, and he did it hard to start with. His uncle had been pushed around by the bigger boats in Motunau and only had a small piece of ocean that he could fish, which was all that was passed across to Geoff. So Geoff did some pushing of his own.

The first few years as a ‘new entrant’ were tough in a 19 foot boat, paying 22.5% interest on a mortgage and taking responsibility for a wife and young family.

But he dug it in, and the hard work started to pay off.

He recalls one of the not so good things about struggling to make a living in the early days as having to eat pāua because he and wife Kim ‘couldn’t afford real food’— Geoff ‘hates seafood’! He found if he drowned it in tomato sauce, he could eat it.

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in April 1990, Geoff teamed up with another Motunau fisherman, Jon Fergus, and they pooled their quota and fished as a partnership for three years until Jon retired.

Geoff bought the boat and continued on his own account.

In 1991 Geoff had put his hand up at a lobster industry meeting in Christchurch to be on a new regional representative committee to be called CRAMAC 5. He was immediately active in the affairs of the organisation and when the CRAMAC 5 foundation chairman, Ted Collins, announced his retirement in 2014, Geoff was unanimously elected to the position. His appointment coincided with an opportunity for the CRAMAC to lead the development and implementation of several regional initiatives which have proven to be remarkably successful and which have also created a precedent across other rock lobster management areas.

At the 2020 CRAMAC 5 Annual General Meeting, Geoff stood down from the role of chairman to enable new blood on the executive committee and to give proper recognition to his former deputy, and now new chairman, Picton-based fisherman, Graham Taylor.

Geoff acknowledged that the highlights of his career have been working for himself as a fulltime fisherman, being a foundation member of the CRAMAC, and learning the business of fishing and the politics of fisheries management from the likes

of Ted Collins, Joe Heberley, Trevor and Dennis Burkhart , and Akaroa fisherman, Allan Reid.

Geoff regards bureaucracy as a big part of fishing. He remains concerned that managing fishing has taken a back seat to the popularity contests played out by politicians in their dealings with environmental groups

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fisheries, the more we are attacked”.

In a previous chairman’s report to CRAMAC 5, Geoff noted that the challenge was no longer to rebuild and enhance lobster fisheries but was to survive as a commercial fisherman.

Which does not seem to be a fair and equitable outcome for a hard-working family man who has demonstrated a strong commitment to and a reliance on sustainable management of the Canterbury/Marlborough lobster fishery for almost four decades.

“We seem to have a target on our backs now; the more we do to look after our

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THE FISHING PAPER & HUNTING NEWS - OCTOBER 2020

Snapper suckers for strayline It seems like every few years there’s a new way to catch fish. When I was a kid, it was all about bait fishing and pretty rudimentary at that. Back then, my mates and I used to rock fish in the Bay of Islands with hand lines, spinning them around our heads like helicopters and hoping they went in the right direction when we let them go. We got a few snapper though, so we must have been doing something right.

Since then there have been any number of rigs and methods to catch fish with both cut baits and live baits.

Then there are the lures.

Bottom bouncing metal jigs, soft baits, inchiku and more recently, your brightly coloured sliding heads with equally brightly coloured rubber skirts.

All these methods work, but if I had to pick one as a favourite—when it comes to snapper anyway—it would be straylining. Your bait floating down with the current, maybe getting a few tentative hits, or even better, that one big pick up and run,

and you’re on. That’s pretty exhilarating.

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Tim with a nice straylined snapper

My first crack at this was at the Alderman Islands off Tairua. It was the first time I’d chucked baits out without a sinker, letting them drift back into the wash around the rocks. We got some nice fish that day and I’ve been hooked ever since.

As a fishing method, it’s relatively simple. The rod and reel can be either spin or overhead. I prefer the latter as I find it easier to take the reel off free spool when it’s time to pull up on the fish. It’s also easier to keep contact with the line as you let it out, and you can back spool it with your thumb if you want to recover small amounts of line. Spin reels with a bait runner/ feeder type mode work well too if you prefer that kind of set up.

I normally fish in 20 metres or less and often quite shallow—5-6 metres. As a main line, a 10 kg mono like Black Magic Premier Tough is perfect. Tough Trace in 40lb – 60lb is my go-to leader. There’s no reason you can’t use Supple Trace of Tough Fluorocarbon if that’s more to your liking. I attach the two with a rolling swivel. In deeper water, I’ll use braid.

It’s less stretchy and therefore easier to feel any bite action.

Lose the swivel here and go for a braid to mono knot. I like Black Magic’s Rainbow Braid Elite 8X. It’s got the colour changes to help with reading the amount of line out, but it also has 1 metre markers.

Lastly—the hooks—a great area for debate. You can choose a ‘J’ style hook or a circle hook. There are good arguments for both, but I like the ‘J’ style. I think I’m a bit twitchy and love to strike hard at the end of the fish’s run. I do like the C Point but I have to say, I really like the DX Point hook. The micro cutting point is so sharp, I reckon fish get hooked just looking at it. But seriously, it’s a good performer and I have often felt the slight inwards curve of the point means I get almost no gut

hooks—mostly in the corner of the mouth—great if you want to release the fish.

I run a two-hook rig spaced well enough to fit a whole pilchard or squid. Try a luminous bead over the bottom hook too.

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In August, Lana, Stu, Ash, and I locked in Ryan from Local Knowledge for another trip out wide.

The weather forecast was less than ideal and as we cruised out of the Sounds we realised we were going to be the only boat out there. There was a fair roll happening but Ryan put us straight on the snapper and within a few minutes we had all hooked up. We were running slow jig set ups

with 20lb braid, 30lb leader and sliding lures of different brands.

Even in trying conditions, this style of gear was productive.

and hooked up on an Ocean Angler Rasta Man slider. We all had bets as to the species, but after a fairly long fight on 20lb gear, it was clear it was a kingi.

After a couple of hours we had some decent snapper and one pup groper in the bin and started thinking about a sheltered spot for some gurnard and a hot coffee from Te Rawa Lodge.

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THE FISHING PAPER & HUNTING NEWS - OCTOBER 2020

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At the bottom end of the South Island in the middle of winter can be a slightly brisk experience in diving but winter diving in Southland can be some of the best of the year. The visibility can be incredible and although fish aren’t as plentiful as during summer, there are still some amazing ones to be speared.

Our winter adventure started on a Saturday at 8.00am with a -5 air temp.

The boat was frozen solid, which resulted in me snapping off the battery isolator switch, as it was completely frozen.

Winter diving presents some challenges you need to be aware of. We needed hot water to thaw the suits and

stop us getting frozen before we even got in the water.

We steamed across a very flat sea to Ruapuke Island where visibility was a clear 12 metres allowing us to see the fish from the surface—it was going to be a good day!

We quickly speared some nice eating blue cod and headed around to a new spot to try for some different species.

With a nasty swell on the exposed side of the island, it was challenging diving but we managed to get some great eating trumpeter.

With the short daylight ours in Southland during the middle of winter, we tried one last spot for a cray. A quick survey found the spot

Rowan trumpeting about his trumpter

empty, which is not common during winter, however I wanted to try one last hole.

Having a low expectation due to the previous holes, I was not expecting to come face to face with what I can only describe as prehistoric dinosaur of a crayfish. A true donkey of a cray. I am not sure who startled who but I desperately wanted to get this monster on camera so gently swam back up to fetch it from the boat.

I breathed up and dropped down only to be utterly disappointed. The cray had clearly been as startled as I had and retreated right back into the hole with no chance of grabbing him or a photo!

That is the nature of diving and just means it will be an epic story for summer— hopefully. Landing the Goliath!

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Ducks and dickies Fizz

Our annual pilgrimage to the vast mud bogs of Marlborough was delayed because of COVID but the ducks and dickie birds clearly hadn’t heard Jacinda’s bleating about social gatherings.

Once set up in our two main maimai on the estuary, with decoys deployed, the

six of us diehards settled in for some quackers to appear.

With the aid of callers, we gabbled and ‘chiddled’ lots of alluring bird talk, hoping they’d adhere to the social distancing rules—we tend to bag more of the critters when they come in singularly or in pairs, rather than in big waves.

It’s traditional for me mate Rayza Blade to take his two sons out for opening day and do a spot of bonding.

Secretly, I think that’s a ruse and he brings them to bump up his tally of mallards for the roasting pan. He loves his ducks does Rayza, especially roasted with a tin of apricots. I hope the useless Coot opens the tin before he puts it in the oven with the duck! He even turns up on opening day with a bunch of cold ducks to munch on.

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Opening Day turned out to be not too shabby, with plenty of mallards on the menu and a few parries looking for a new career in the salami department.

Rayza has been talking about spending some of his hard earned money he makes working for the backbone of the country (DoC) helping save the world, on a new shotgun.

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Submerged launch lies in wait Dear Ed, I was fishing in mid September and coming home we found the tip of a boat just coming out of water. It had been sunk a while and this Friday was a super small tide; if it was bigger tide it would be just under water and would make a mess if was to be hit by another boat, especially travelling at speed.

It was just to South West of Hori Bay past the rocks in

19m of water (S41°06.156 E173°30.401). It is right about where you steam from Whangamoa Bar around to the dead pine trees at Delaware. To me, it seemed to be sitting on its transom or rudder and wasn’t moving at all. It was house forward and looked to be an older kauri type launch, but there were no markings on it.

After the tragic events in Okiwi lately, I thought it would be good to photo and take GPS. Would you guys be interested in them to put your paper and maybe ask if

other people would do the same? It would make a great dive site, as it is in about 20m.

Just a thought.

Thanks for the paper, it’s great!

Cheers Adam Grant Richards Ed Replies: Thanks Adam.

I passed your information and co-ordinates onto the Nelson Harbourmaster and received the following reply back. I suggest boaties using this area record the co-ordinates and keep a watchful eye out.

The Harbourmaster’s Office was informed through the Coastguard of a semi submerged vessel

in the vicinity of Hori Bay / Whangamoa. The report stated that three days earlier a boatie had seen the vessel and noted its location.

It has since transpired that there was an alleged incident where a vessel hit a submerged rock and sunk earlier in the week, and the sole person onboard managed to row a raft to shore and safety. On being informed of the initial report we have patrolled the area on two occasions looking for the vessel but are unable to locate it, or any other signs of a sunken vessel in the area. It is of concern as it is a serious danger to navigation, and really highlights the need for boaties to report any incidents immediately to

Maritime New Zealand, the Harbourmaster, Coastguard or NZ Police to ensure it does not impact other boaties in the area.

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‘God policies’ a winner Dear Ed, Recently my husband and I had the pleasure to meet and enjoy the company of said Editor on a five night cruise on Tutoko II in Dusky/ Doubtful Sound. First words were ‘’No (#@*#+@) politics on the boat’.”

Imagine how long that lasted. First night we formed a new political party—The God Party. Guess who was the leader! Many policies

were made and beware anyone who should not agree with us. We had a few changes in leadership, then we got a very powerful woman step up. Wow she was good.

A wonderful trip with so much laughter our bellies ached. If anyone with a sense of humour gets a chance to experience the editor’s company, grab it with both hands. What an experience.

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Pāua to the people

Monitoring pāua a key part of the programme

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With support and tools from the Pāua Industry Council and the local PāuaMAC4 Industry Association, commercial Chatham Island pāua divers have developed a management model that is working a treat. Believing the quota was set too high, they reduced their annual catch entitlement by 40% and became ‘farmers of the coastline’, thereby reducing their fishery decline and increasing the sustainability of the Chatham pāua fishery.

The commercial pāua divers formed a Harvesters’ Forum, which is essentially those people who make their living by wearing a wetsuit—no quota owner investors required. Their key focus was to assess

and better manage each of the various harvesting areas that make up the Chatham and Pitt Island pāua fishery. They hold bi-monthly management meetings to discuss strategy on individual stratum or parts of the coastline; all forum members visit most statistical areas and agree on what can be sustainably harvested from these during the following season, then they all stick to it. It is not a shared catch, instead the pāua are harvested on a ‘first up best dressed’ basis and once the cap is reached, fishing stops immediately in that area.

They all communicate in real time via the Messenger App so once the message goes out—BANG—it’s fins out of the water. The buy in from

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commercial divers has been 100% and results impressive.

Another innovative move on behalf of the forum was to decide their own size limit for each stratum within the fishery: instead of sticking just with the recognised official Minimum Legal Size (MLS) of 125mm, the Harvesters’ Forum introduced a Minimum Harvest Size (MHS), which can vary between areas and can be increased as the localised fishery becomes more productive and abundant. In one statistical area the MHS is now up to 140mm! The benefits of this approach include: - more years individual pāua are contributing to spawning events - less fish harvested by number for same weight - the live market trade wants bigger pāua

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BOOK REVIEW Duped—the true story behind predator free New Zealand Les Kelly Self-published RRP $25 Reviewed by Daryl Crimp I’m sure most Kiwis are aware of the Government’s Predator Free NZ 2050, which ambitiously aims to rid mainland New Zealand of all predators within the next 30 years. But are you aware that the concept and name was allegedly hi-jacked and stolen by an unscrupulous government to score ‘bogus’ green brownie points?

Author Les Kelly claims the original Predator Free New Zealand (PFNZ) was established in 2008 to find a credible, non-toxic alternative to the repetitious

use of poisons as a method of predator control. The impetus for the move was a staggering loss of bird life, discovered by Les upon returning home after decades working in Australia, as he tramped the length and breadth of the South Island, visiting favourite haunts. The decades of continued and accelerated use of poisons like 1080 seemed not to have worked but accelerated the decline. A group of like-minded people was established to investigate the issue.

The team’s research indicated a potential irrevocable loss of billions per annum to our economy if our Clean Green brand were to disappear, but there was a viable non-toxic alternative.

PFNZ costed it, created an action plan, and then touted for support and funding.

At this point, the book

starts to read like a thriller laced with conspiracy theories and skulduggery at the highest levels. Certainly it is well-written and pacy, clipping along at almost breathless speed and Les pulls no punches, naming names and placing blame where he sees appropriate.

He argues that key players have ‘duped’ the public ‘through a tapestry of theft and deception’ to use the Predator Free New Zealand brand as a thinly disguised model and justification for escalating the Government’s poisoning programme.

Sensationalistic? Maybe, but what lends credibility to his claims, is the book is well-referenced and there are impressive appendices at the back of the book, which include letters, official reports, DoC documents, and material released under the OIA. Particularly

Persistence, a top fly pattern Ivan Wilson

Foggy Brunner day The shortest day of this difficult year slid off the back of the truck.

Two days later, with the stunning spell of weather continuing, we went for a sunshiny, winter look at the lake. The idea had an embarrassing genesis, as ‘Matey’ Garth came round catching me in my dressing gown as I puddled about making a slow start to the day. This retirement is great, however there were no rude comments, in contrast to some other people I know who won’t be mentioned.

That lets you guys off the hook, ’Trout for Bait’ and ‘Tripe ‘n Onions,’—best not mention their real names.

Next day I was all togged up for the crisp temps, the boat ready at the end of the drive, Matey arrived and before you could say, “Bob’s yer aunty,” we were off.

The weather forecast was good so anticipation built as we made our way up the valley. Mist hanging over Arnold Valley Road began to resemble a decent old fog, however, I suggested it’d be okay up at Moana. It was, but not for the first two and quarter hours on the water.

Visibility was close to

zero as we chugged very slowly away from the ramp, followed by a couple of ‘Canterbury lambs,’ who were all questions about what to use, the best spots etc. As the interview went on, I thought they might have been policemen but they were too short. We gave them good bully, but later Matey reckoned they’d not likely utilise it, as they turned out to be trollers and preferred a few beers while dragging multi-hooked hardware through the water.

Before launching, we saw ecology in action with two water-birds working the edges. One a shag diving, while a white-faced heron followed it along the shore line, picking off any small fish that scattered away from Mr Shag and came within reach of the heron’s sharp beak.

Loud bangs further afield heralded duck shooter activity, with Matey suggesting they didn’t want us on the lake and were firing warning shots but they were far enough away not to pose a danger to us.

Still in mist, we slid quietly towards some regular spots, but we were not seeing

fish and we agreed lack of sunshine and the cold was the reason. Persistence is a great fly pattern so persist we did and after two and quarter hours, conditions cleared a bit more and the mountains came into view.

The fish didn’t come into view though, so we headed across to the other side of the lake, where we saw the odd rise and this is where Matey had some ill-timed snarl ups with his dry and dropper set up, the moment a rise was spotted of course. He kept his sense of humour and chuckled when I said one of his birds’ nests would make a good home for an ostrich.

I took up the rod myself and on spotting a subtle rise, dropped a pheas’ tail nymph out there. The take was subtle but the fish stripped line rapidly in a series of strong runs. Finally it came to the net and proved to be a four and half pounder in quite good nick. Fly removed and over the side it went to fight another day. One to the boat and an earlier bust off was no grand total, but the windless, sunny, winter day was wonderful.

damning is the official Orillion Safety Data Sheets on 1080 and Broadifacoum; it’s enough to give you the sweats at night!

Les Kelly challenges the Establishment in a very compelling way. It appears one predator hard to eradicate is the Government under the guise of its subspecies DoC. If he is wrong—one would assume he’s about to have pants sued off.

Definitely a pick up and can’t put down read.

The book is available from Les Kelly: email predatorfreenz@gmail. com leaving name and postal address, and deposit $25 for the book and $4.50 postage for normal postal or $9.50 for rural delivery into bank acc. no. 38 9008 0855872 02 Kiwibank, acc. name Leslie F Kelly.

Curls bows out

Max Barclay

On a previous bow hunting mission, I had come across a lucky billy, one of a kind for sure. I missed him with my bow a couple of weeks back and was gutted, and didn’t think I would ever see him again.

I called him Curls due to his crazy looking horns that curled forward rather than backward like a normal goat.

I had never seen anything like this and was determined to put him on the wall. So one Saturday, my brother James and I went back to the spot where we had last seen him. I had my bow, and James had the 44mag just in case my bow wouldn’t cut it.

It didn’t take long before we spotted a mob of goats about 700m off and, to my disbelief, I could see a billy that caught my interest. I got my camera out to get a bit more magnification. Sure, enough there he was; the chances of spotting him were next to none. We planned our stalk and started down the hill towards him.

About an hour later we became confused as to where the goats were. With a steady uphill wind and as we crossed a ridge, a strong smell of billy hit me in the face. A group of about 20 goats was sunbathing to the left us on a sharp ridge, mingled between trees and thick scrub. James and I moved into 40m and watched for a good 40 minutes without seeing the billy I wanted; he was either hiding over the ridge or he wasn’t there at all.

Max with Curls at last

We showed ourselves to get the goat moving and pushed them down the ridge. Suddenly—a slight glimpse of an oddlooking horn amongst all the heads moving around.

Unfortunately, now the goats were moving and aware of us, so it would be unlikely to get an opportunity with the bow. We quickly crossed ridges and followed the goats down the ridge. One by one they crossed a small creek to the right and up into some thick scrub and fallen trees. Curls ran across chasing some young billies, obviously unaware of what all the fuss was about. I had very little time.

Before I knew it, he disappeared into the bush.

James passed me the gun and I quickly closed the distance to get a different angle. I don’t know if he smelt me but just as I found a rest, he jumped onto a rock about 60m away and a 225-grain slug sent him rolling down a slip. I was happy, to say the least but it was also a bittersweet moment. I had just shot an awesome billy but at the same time, I couldn’t help thinking how cool it would have been to get him with the bow. Nevertheless, It was a good bit of exercise and a hunt I will always remember.

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And so what about the alternative? Well, there’s no doubt that the Nats are better managers… they could hardly be worse, could they? Actually, they do have a significant weakness. National have been in power for two years out of every three since 1949, but they have never reversed a Labour Policy.

Key to our identity and psyche as Kiwis—we are a nation that rallies

together: for the All Blacks, the America’s Cup, our sporting legends, and our neighbours. We celebrate triumph but more importantly we rally in

times of crisis: the Christchurch and Kaikoura earthquakes, the terrorist mosque attacks, and now the global COVID pandemic.

We unite around shared values, that we can overcome adversity and make tomorrow better.

But what unites us as New Zealanders? We all have one thing in common and it’s the only thing every New Zealander shares.

We are children of pioneers. The courageous and brave independent-thinkers who didn’t just talk… but ACTED to create a better life for themselves. Every one of us… every one of you or your ancestors, travelled further than anyone else would go for a better tomorrow.

Entrepreneurship is taking risks in search of profit. It’s hard to put more at risk than leaving everything you know behind to back

Dance but no delivery

Jacinda Ardern does deserve credit for her leadership in a crisis. However elections are not about the past BUT about the FUTURE that awaits us.

And far too often, we have been served a shallow spin of marketing and mediocrity.

The current government wasn’t the first, but they are just the slickest exponent of doing the dance, but not the delivery.

Remember:

Kiwibuild was going to deliver 100,000 affordable homes. So far, it’s delivered 548.

A billion trees in a decade? After three years, not even four per cent planted.

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It’s a classic example of an undemocratic process and the squandering of public money. Hot on the heels of the Christchurch terrorist attack, the Labour-led Government hastily banned 240,000 firearms and imposed a raft of tighter restrictions, without adequate consultation and due diligence.

They introduced a Three Strikes law, if someone commits three violent offences they get the maximum sentence for their third.

You only have to look at a map to see it’s true. We did come further. Only the Australians came close… but let’s face it— they didn’t exactly go voluntarily!

They introduced charter schools so that disadvantaged kids had the opportunity to learn in an environment that engaged them.

Our national identity is to seek a better tomorrow against all odds all the time.

But what can we say about our Government? Is it living up to the spirit of hope that brought us all here?

They started to legalise Assisted Dying.

A new team in parliament Other parties make promises and say ‘trust us’, but we’ve created an interactive website where you can see it for yourself. We trust YOU, and YOUR judgement on the future choices we face.

ACT stands for a faster recovery with lower taxes and less debt.

emissions free by 2026. So far they’re 0.6 per cent of the way there.

Our plan to boost the economy promotes a recovery led by private enterprise.

Investment, jobs and growth.

Climate change was ‘this generations nuclear free moment,’ but emissions went up 17 per cent under this Government.

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The Prime Minister promised to put children at the heart of everything, but material hardship amongst children went up.

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Fees-Free tertiary education actually led to fewer first year enrolments.

Auckland was supposed to get a tram straight down the Dominion Road… It’s nowhere to be seen.

The Greens say, ‘tax is love’. But we know that tax is a penalty on the workers, savers and investors of the future. That is why ACT’s

Nicole McKee is the number three candidate on the ACT Party’s list.

It spent $120 million on a futile buyback scheme and collected only 60,000. Not a single gun has been collected from gang members.

March 14 last year because of this law that was divisive, ineffective and, until the Royal Commission reports on what the problem was, premature.

The Licensed Firearm Community—who should be the eyes and ears of the police— were vilified by Labour and the Greens and now trust the police less than ever after the way they’ve been treated! The Arms Amendment Bill has done nothing to close the loopholes that let a foreign terrorist commit a heinous crime in this country.

In fact, we are less safe than we were on

Strangely, ONLY ACT had the principle to stand against this madness!

ACT would repeal this inequitable and ineffective law.

ACT doesn’t exist just to win power but a key role is to challenge other parties and

WHY CAN’T THE GOVERNMENT LIVE BY THE SAME RULES AS EVERYONE ELSE?

A nation of entrepreneurs doesn’t need much to get on with it. We just need the Government out of the way.

to provide some ideas for actually raising productivity.

They allowed all firms to trial workers for 90 days without getting landed with a personal grievance if it didn’t work out.

But all of those ideas were ACT’s.

So, let me put it this way… if you’re going to see a gig or a show—do you want to see the original act or some knock-off cover band?

policy would cut GST to 10 per cent for a year initially, and cut the middle-income tax rate permanently.

To recover we need to employ Kiwis, hundreds of thousands of times in the years to come, so ACT will put a moratorium on minimum wage increases for three years and reintroduce 90 day trials, to make it far easier to hire new workers and create new jobs.

We cannot grow without investment.

Investment leads to jobs and growth. Today, we are one of the hardest countries in the OECD to send money to, which is a handbrake on our economy, when we need to jump-start growth using every means at our disposal. That is why ACT would remove the restrictions on investors from democratic,

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Even renewable electricity went down under this Government.

Let’s ‘punish the innocent policy’ But let’s look closer at one monumental failure that actually ‘stole’ rights and freedoms from innocent Kiwis—licensed firearms owners—and created ineffective and unjust laws under the guise of increasing public safety.

Yes they have introduced some good things:

yourself. By that standard, we are the most entrepreneurial country on earth.

They created a Productivity Commission

hold them accountable. Time and again, ACT stood alone against every other party.

The vote was 119-1 numerous times as one party—ACT—stood on principle against the madness of ‘political correctness’ and the ‘conventional wisdom’.

I realise that it’s not enough to oppose so ACT exists to PROPOSE innovative, smart policy ideas that actually work.

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A firearms safety instructor, small business owner, double Silver Fern shooting representative, hunter and gatherer - she understands the legitimate recreational pleasures of many firearm users.

In the wake of our nation’s tragedy in Christchurch, Nicole provided the calm and intelligent voice of reason on firearms law. So much so, she was awarded communicator of the year as spokesperson for the Council of Licenced Firearms Owners (COLFO) through this difficult time: “I’ve been hunting for 20 years. I wasn’t raised a hunter, I learn’t out of necessity. I’m proud of the way I was able to provide for my family during tough times and I want to ensure that all hunters whether out of necessity or recreation continue to have that choice too.

Hunting has become a passion for me, like it is for many New Zealanders. It provides food for many people, social contact and friendship and helps control pests to maintain balance in our unique ecosystems.

I am standing for ACT because our principles not only promote freedom to live within the law but also efficient policies while treating everyone as equal.

I believe that emotive and rushed firearms legislation adversely affects those it is intended to support. Our laws should be rooted in policies that recognise our

NZ needs fresh approach

Now, we face a major challenge as a country.

The next Parliament will have to:

Get smart and rethink the Public Health response to COVID-19 Get honest about the debt and rebuild our economy

Get ambitious about reuniting as a country, and growing our way out of this mess.

But we need a fresh approach to do it.

Throughout the COVID crisis, ACT’s mantra has been to offer constructive criticism where necessary and helpful suggestions where possible, to hold them ALL accountable.

Only ACT is being honest about the Government’s debt.

Audiences at ACT’s meetings are getting younger, which shows they are concerned we get this right. I think even school kids are worried they’re going to graduate high school, before they see the Government balance the books. And they’re right to be worried, because if we don’t change course, they’ THEM footing the bill.

ACT’s Debt Destroyer shows how we can save $76 billion over the next decade. Under ACT’s plan we start paying down debt in 2023 instead of… never.

friendly, OECD countries, from sending money to New Zealand.

And we also have the

ACT’s vision is the only one that fits with our national character as children of pioneers.

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You or your ancestors came here to change their future. They came here because they wanted better.

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be proud you live under a

dance, but not the delivery?

Well, I humbly submit that ACT can do the dance AND the delivery.

So, let’s put a NEW team ALL accountable, and

CHANGE YOUR FUTURE.

A voice for your community democratic rights to think, to speak and to behave in a legal and unobstructed way.

The freedom of choice to live the way you wish to, as long as you do so legally and without disruption to others.

ACT promotes the basic principles of freedoms in a society that we have now taken for granted Unfortunately, Government policy often fails to recognise these realities and benefits.

The Department of Conservation often sees hunters as their enemy instead of a valuable ally. While it excludes them from being part of the solution, it puts its own resources into damaging eradication and poisoning programmes instead.

This election, let’s reunite the country and put forward positive and constructive solutions, rather than singling out groups.

ACT’s priority is to repeal the Arms Legislation Act, then set about making the world’s best firearm laws that balance public safety, firearms control, and freedom.”

-Nicole McKee, ACT Candidate for Rongotai, Spokesperson for Hunting & Conservation and Firearms

Chris Baillie is the number four candidate on the ACT Party’s list.

A school teacher, business owner and former Police Youth Aid Officer. He hails from sunny Nelson, where enjoys getting outside in nature and enjoying the best the region has to offer.

“I have watched this past Parliamentary term with concern about the subtle, and not so subtle, erosion of New Zealand’s traditional way of life. The hunting and fishing community have been hugely affected by recent agenda driven government decisions.

This is what has prompted me to want to become your representative in Parliament.

I am a strong believer in the concept of personal responsibility and personal freedom, in particular, the right of free speech. I believe that less bureaucratic and government intervention in our lives is the way forward for New Zealand.

I am currently a full-time special needs teacher at a local secondary school, a rewarding role that I have thoroughly enjoyed for the past ten years.

After training as an English and music teacher in the 80s, I taught for eight years before travelling overseas to explore and work in various countries.

On my return in 1995 I joined the New Zealand Police, and over the next 14 years I worked in Auckland, Wellington and Nelson

as a General Duties Constable and Youth Aid Officer.

In 2010 I bought an interest in a local hospitality venue in Nelson, currently employing around 30 staff, where I oversee the various facets of the business.

Throughout this time, I have maintained a strong interest in sport and music, being an enthusiastic supporter of the local jazz scene.

My background in business, teaching and law enforcement means I will bring a wide range of skills to Parliament.

ACT has a strong roadmap to recovery from the Covid crisis. As a business owner I understand what a tough economy we’re living in. ACT will ensure we reunite the country and fight for your freedom, fight for the environment and fight for fairness.

A party vote for ACT will ensure this community has a very supportive voice in Parliament.

-Chris Baillie, ACT Candidate for Nelson, Spokesperson for Education, and Small & Medium Business Growth

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ACT has a real plan to get Kiwi businesses growing again. Six of ACT’s top eight candidates are business owners. We understand the pressure that businesses across the country are facing.

We know that red tape wastes time and money and holds firms back from hiring new staff or retaining existing jobs.

ACT WILL: • Cut GST to 10% for 12 months, putting more money in people’s pockets • Scrap the RMA and other regulations impeding on businesses • Make it easier to hire people, creating more jobs for New Zealanders Growing our small businesses is essential for New Zealand’s economic recovery. Only ACT will ensure that there is a real focus on jobs and the economy in Parliament.

It’s more of the same… Or a NEW, positive plan for small business & the self-employed.

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Stop ‘Pollies’ plundering our patch Viewpoint - Roger Hebberd

When the people of New Zealand voted for MMP, they didn’t realise that the minor parties who would then form a coalition with a major party, could then hold that party to ransom to accept their agendas.

Didn’t Winston get $70m to prop up the horse racing industry? Now it is Eugenie Sage attacking the rights of all New Zealanders to go fishing and trying to wipe out the tahr population in the high country, with the full cooperation of DoC who are willing accomplices. She is also going to shut down as many rivers as she can for whitebaiting.

Unfortunately, it is usually us average New Zealanders who enjoy carrying out these pursuits in this wonderful country of ours—and we have done so for over 100 years with

no adverse effects on the environment—who have to suffer the consequences of an inadequate government.

MPI who is headed by the Labour Party’s Stuart Nash (in cahoots with Eugenie Sage, the Green Party Minister of Conservation) has put a complete ban on all set netting in Tasman Bay including its estuaries from 1 October 2020. The rationale behind this decision is for the protection of the Hector dolphins. I agree that the ban in Tasman Bay is acceptable, but to ban nets in a shallow estuary where dolphins never go is completely unacceptable. I pointed out to Stuart Nash that, although I have seen dolphins many times around the Okiwi Bay area, in the 60 years I have travelled between Nelson and d’Urville Island, I have never seen them south of Okiwi

Bay. I also pointed out that set netting for flounder in an estuary is carried out at low tide when the tide level is about a metre high and the net is retrieved before the high tide in a depth of 3 to 4 metres. Are you likely to see a dolphin there? I don’t think so.

I also pointed out that there is no possibility of a securely anchored net being lost, because in the unlikely event of the floats (which are labelled with the fisherman’s name and phone number) becoming lost, the net can easily be retrieved at low tide in a metre of water.

Stuart Nash has completely ignored these salient points and he is not prepared to make a compromise. A flounder net fishing season in estuaries between the 1 April and the 31 August would be acceptable. Nobody set nets for flounders out of this

time frame because that is when the stingrays come up the channels to feed on Eugenie’s crabs and they leave large holes in the net, rendering them useless.

I also asked Stuart Nash the question, ‘Would Maori be banned from set netting?’ The answer came back that under customary rights they would be allowed to continue using set nets, even in Tasman Bay. This makes a complete mockery of his set net ban, as he obviously does not care whether they snag any dolphins in the bay where the dolphins would be most at risk. I would also like to point out that all New Zealanders are equal under the law and no ethnic group should be advantaged over another. This is a flagrant affront to all human rights and is not to be tolerated any longer.

Roger out to set a net in happier days

I would urge all voters in the coming election to support their National candidate and give their party vote to Act, so they can form a coalition government, as they are the only parties prepared to do something about the major injustices that have been perpetrated

on the people by this present government with their draconian gun laws and the taking away of New Zealanders’ fishing rights by a stroke of a pen, with little thought and the lack of consultation.

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not a pistol shooter, do you condone the stripping of personal rights and freedoms? What about Government theft?

Take for example, the banning of tracers and steel-cored ammunition

by Labour. Without consultation or good reason, they changed the law so they could ban the use and possession of it, and gave no compensation. COLFO took the government to court and the ruling was that it was legal, simply because the law had been changed to accommodate the underhanded move, but it was immoral because the government had taken lawfully purchased property without compensation—in other words, they stole it!

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Shooting from the lip…

For many, shooting is more than just a sport—it is a way of life—taking up a lot of our time, with holidays almost always around competitions. It’s also as much about the friends made.

David Seymour of ACT has copped flak for picking so many ‘radical’ candidates; Nicole McKee at Number 3 is a professional firearms expert and advocate, and others are also allied with firearms related sports.

To further demonise this sector, firearms users have been dubbed cynically and negatively as ‘The Firearms Lobby’, as if we are something distasteful.

All the firearms owners I know are neither radicals nor lobbyists but doctors, lawyers, teachers, farmers, chemists, workers, nurses, hunters, coaches, builders, scientists, preachers, fathers, daughters… in other words,

However, shooting has become anti-social in the media’s eyes, polarising a lot of people who have no understanding what we do, to form a very strong bias against us. The reaction of the Labour led government towards pistol shooters has been negative and uncalled for but, with the election, we can make a stand and address some fundamental issues. How important is shooting for us and our children? Even if you are

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Surfcasting sinker suggestions bend the top wire of the sinker into a shape that will accommodate the hook in a clip down style rig.

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Ron Prestage Surfcasters, who are well aware that there is a fair degree of difficulty in getting success, compared with other fishing methods, seem to be more than willing to share their tips.

One such clever innovation shared recently on the NZ Surfcasting and Rockfishing Facebook page by Lemmy Shadgett was an idea of how to turn a conventional breakout sinker into one with a built-in clip down rig.

Lemmy’s idea is to simply

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Lemmy’s simple bend the wire clip down sinker.

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A low-tech, low-cost way of making your own strongly gripping sinkers is to use a moulding sand box and box wire. It would be easy to improve this design by bending a clip down component into the central wire. I have made and used these sinkers in the past before the advent of the breakout style and they certainly get a good grip, especially in the West Coast’s turbulent waters.

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Sharing is Caring their attention on me. I call them close to hand and then converse aloud, confident there is no pig handy and the wind will disperse my voice to all but my ‘muttley mates.’

So here I am, chatting away, making up fairy stories for pooches and feeling rather embarrassed, when there is an almighty crash below us. I catch a glimpse of white on black then hear the telltale blow of a ‘bolting Boris.’

The hapless weaner

It’s not often I share a hunting block but I’m playing nice and sharing today and what a day it is.

Late afternoon, howling nor-wester and a little too warm for my liking. I may be sharing with another kid but I’m not into holding hands nor putting all our toys in one basket. Instead I take the high road and they take the low road, each of us walking into the gale on our own separate mission.

Parking on the skyline I liberate Pearl, Chop, and youngster Nugget. We

descend at a leisurely pace, plenty of time before dusk, no hurry. The wind buffets the pines so they dance, limbo, and groan. Of pig sign there is nothing, not a skerrick Halfway between High Road and Low Road I hear my playmate’s dogs find a pig of miniscule proportions.

Despite being small, its indignant shrieks carry on the gale. If my dogs hear it they will depart at warp speed to assist the other canine crew. There is nought for it but to keep

Chop and Nugget were listening so intently to my storytelling they’d not noticed Pearl detour into the bushes nearby. Now they’re off, sprinting and scrabbling through the bluffs in pursuit of Pearl and her runaway pig.

Up here, my tracker tells me my dogs are rocketing downhill, then across hill, then around in circles, squares, and triangles above Low Road. Down there, my playmate’s tracker tells him the same story. At first he thinks my dogs are on their way to him and his unfortunate weaner. Then he notices the geometric

patterns of dogs tracking a crafty boar as he dodges and circles and backtracks in an endeavour to lose his pursuers.

My mate, let’s call him Fella, runs to his ute and puts his dogs in the box. Then he drives to where my dogs duck and dive in the tight broom and gorse above him.

Finally he sees their tracker trails drop onto the road ahead so accelerates in their direction.

Walking the final 100 metres, Fella comes across Pearl and Chop in conversation with Boris.

The two dogs have run far and fast, up and down, around and ‘asquare’, until they’re nearly beat. Now they’re bailing half-heartedly, wobbling and staggering with oxygen deprivation and heat exhaustion.

As the trio becomes aware of Fella’s existence, the conversation becomes a debate. The debate degenerates into a scuffle and Fella is keen to join the fray. He gets amongst the commotion only to find he has left his knife at the ute.

Bugger.

Back at his ute and having witnessed my dogs’ state of exhaustion, Fella not only grabs his knife and his rifle

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but he frees his dogs from the box. Boris beware— reinforcements are on the way.

The reinforcements streak off up the road, “Let us at him!”

Oh how they run, 110 percent enthusiasm and acceleration. So keen. So fast. So fast they don’t hear Pearl and Chop over the roadside bank. So fast they don’t smell the boar nor the battleground. So fast they streak right on by, then over the hill, then down the other side. Gone.

Boris and my two continue to arm wrestle and sling insults. Angrily he chases them, reversing them up the bank and back onto the road. That’s when Fella comes striding along, confident he has a fresh team holding and he’ll be putting his knife to good use.

Instead he finds just my two dogs lying panting on the road. Beside them four sets of paw prints heading North.

“What? Where? Why?” Three W’s then one irate FFS. Luckily Fella spies defiant Boris lurking below the road and slings a hasty bullet in his direction. It’s not a killing shot so he, Pearl, and

Coutta’s Cut:

Okay, admittedly, it wasn’t a case of being hours late, it was a couple of days, but the emotional and physical pain and scars simply don’t compare. Not being able to beat a tactical retreat to my shed is also making me feel rather vulnerable.

I’ve previously made mention of the current review being carried out on New Zealand Fish & Game. I think we may need to be more concerned about this review than we appear to be. I’m going to put my hand up and say when I was a councillor, I was at times pretty critical of Bryce Johnson, the previous CEO. I’m still of the opinion he made mistakes,

Fella boxes both dog teams, flings Boris aboard his ute, then comes looking for me. I have to admit it’s been kinda cruisey picking my route down the hill and locating Nugget lost along the way.

Yup, I had a temporary chinquivering moment when Chop’s signal was six metres away yet I could not hear him panting.

“Oh no Chop, please don’t be dead.”

I got my act together after walking circles, squares, and triangles thereabouts. Chop was not there, his tracking collar had died but he hadn’t.

Here I am now at Low Road, hands still clean, barely a bead of sweat on my brow, runaway pig battled to death then gutted, dogs safe. I’m not jealous of my little playmate’s party antics. This sharing caper is not too bad at all.

“Good on ya Fella."

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New broom sweeps mean?

As I’m sitting here on a beautiful day hunched over my keyboard, I’m into my fourth day recovering from a hip replacement. For those thinking of getting this operation done, don’t worry too much about the pain, it’s not that bad. I’ve had worse at the hands of ‘Lynne the Ruthless’ after being home late from the pub.

Chop pile in and begin to battle to the death. A clash of tusk and fang and blade.

Finally Boris’ legs fold and when the action is all but over, the foolish speedsters return en-masse. They’re now the equivalent of gate-crashers and decidedly unwelcome. Man’s best friends aye? Yeah right.

especially where he put the dairy industry offside with anglers and hunters, but the man was a professional and the best interests of the licence holders were always his only priority. He had the ability to engage in a heated discussion but when that discussion was over, it was over. Probably most importantly, he had the ear of the politicians, who were important to the organization.

Fish & Game has a new CEO who is certainly attempting to stamp his mark on the organization. This is nothing unusual when a new boss comes in but, from what I’ve heard, there are a few feathers being ruffled around the regions and not just on the first Saturday in May. The Fish & Game Councils have been running the game birds and fresh water fishery for just over 30 years. Yeah sure, there are a few tweaks that could be done. I’ve always wondered at the need for 12 regional councillors.

I’m not sure there is any

region employing more than 12 staff. Northland, I believe has three staff. That part is a bit top-heavy. Wouldn’t a council of say four be better?

It would cut a substantial cost from meetings and mileage. Also, do we need such a large national office made up of people, a lot of whom wouldn’t have a clue what is going on in the regions? Could save a fair bit of money there.

What I don’t want to see come out of this review is the regional decision making going to the National office.

The staff and the councillors, albeit the latter at a reduced number, are the ones who know what is best for the licence holders. The days are well gone when a Fish & Game officer spends his/her day checking licences. We need the scientific skills in the field and in the regions.

We do not have a one-sizefits-all situation. The last thing I want to see is DoC getting any sort of control over Fish & Game. We had that. Let’s not go back there.

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West Coast Trawl Survey If you’re out off the west coast of the North Island before summer really hits us, keep an eye out for the research vessel Kaharoa.

NIWA is heading out west during October and November to support our understanding of relative abundance and distribution for inshore finfish species.

The survey is focusing on snapper, tarakihi, red gurnard, and John dory.

The information from this survey will help Fisheries New Zealand make decisions about these fisheries, including the setting of sustainable catch limits.

One of the key outcomes for the survey will be a better understanding of the SNA 8 (Central (Egmont)) snapper fishery.

This is an important shared fishery which is highly valued by the customary, recreational and commercial sectors, and is the second largest snapper fishery in New Zealand for both recreational and commercial fishers.

Following an assessment that estimated the stock

was too low and needed to recover, cuts to catch limits for SNA8 were made in 2005. Since then, the stock has been rebuilding and the best available information now shows that the fishery is doing well. This survey will help validate where the fishery is at and inform discussions around a review of the SNA8 stock in 2021.

Following the 2005 SNA8 stock assessment, which lead to catch limit reductions, it was decided the best way to monitor and to determine the relative abundance and distribution of snapper, tarakihi, red gurnard and John dory on the west coast was by carrying out trawl surveys over the depth range 10 to 200 m.

This is the third survey of this series.

Voyage leader and NIWA fisheries scientist Dr Emma Jones says the survey provides standardised fishery-independent data that will be used to compare to similar historic surveys to help determine how the fishery may have changed.

“Because we use the same vessel, same net design and deploy the net in a standardized way, our results are comparable with results from surveys carried out using the same methods 20 years ago. This provides us with a picture of how fish abundance and communities have changed over the time.”

NIWA surveying young snapper in Hauraki Gulf aboard the RV Kaharoa, Photo Credit Dave Allen, NIWA]

The surveying will take place outside of the areas that are closed to fishing because of the potential threat to Maui dolphins.

Kaharoa leaves from Wellington on October 7 and will be carrying out trawl sampling between Mana Island in the south all the way to Ninety Mile beach, coming in and out of New Plymouth port during the survey. In some areas the vessel will be close to shore, but it won’t be trawling inside the newly extended West Coast Marine Mammal Sanctuary and is only sampling where the commercial fishing

boats are allowed to fish.

Stringent measures will be in place to minimise the risk of encountering any Maui dolphins. This includes a marine mammal observer who will be on board to keep watch for dolphins

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April bullfrogged The end of March, day two of a five day hunt and I was over it already. Nothing roaring, not a groan to be heard, except from me.

I had seen a scrubby eight pointer with a spiker and two hinds feeding on a belt of rank grass below a large patch of tall scrub. On the left was a gully of taller native, full of broadleaf— home base for this little mob.

I’d glimpsed a big-bodied animal standing in the scrub but it never came out to join the others. A stag? Had to be.

The wind made approaching them impossible for two bloody days. James turned up at the tent just in time for the second brew-up.

“How’d you go mate?” I asked.

“Crap,” he said.

“The same bloody six pointer and his three girlfriends.”

We decided tomorrow would be the last day of the trip but morning brought change—a howling westerly—at least there would be a chance of getting

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below the mob’s hangout for a better look.

By late afternoon I was set up, lying in a small depression, looking up the 200m steep face at the hole in the scrub where the deer entered the clearing. Two hours crawled by—nothing.

The sun was setting. High to my left, a hind emerged and started feeding. High to the right, two fallow does appeared. Fallow? Really?

A movement 10m to my right—don’t move a muscle—I couldn’t believe what I saw. A fallow spiker, head up high, doing the ‘chicken walk.’ Legs lifting high and slow in turn, head back, then forward—caution, suspicion.

“What the hell is that thing lying down in the grass?” I imagined it thinking.

The fallow had nice symmetry

I stopped breathing. How the hell could he not smell me? That westerly was blowing me straight to him.

He kept walking, starting to relax. At this distance, was the wind blowing my scent, or stench, along the ground?

The spiker then headed up hill to join the does. I have never been that close to a live deer before or since.

It was getting darker and my hope of action got darker with it. Another hind had joined the first one but no stag. They and the

three fallow, all fed quietly, both species giving the other plenty of space.

Then all hell broke loose. Scrub smashed aside, grunting and thumping followed by loud croaking.

A bullfrog on steroids?

One very woundup fallow buck charged out of the scrub, paused to sniff a doe, then marshalled her quick-smart back into the bushes.

Antlers! Bloody big antlers was all I saw and they were gone.

My hands were shaking as a wave of disappointment washed over me. No chance of a shot—darkness intervened. However, it looked a touch brighter through the scope, so I kept glued to it.

Then the doe reappeared… maybe the buck was out of luck. His antlers materialised but I couldn’t make out his dark body against the scrub. He approached the doe softly, allowing me a slightly better view. I estimated the position of his shoulder.

He paused. I fired and the

Ruger jumped, eye still in the scope, but antlers kept advancing. I don’t remember reloading but I fired again, hopefully, for where the neck joins onto the big bit.

Silence. Headlamp on and there he was, 70 metres uphill, lying on a grassy terrace where he’d dropped instantly to my second shot, which had landed under his left eye. At least I hadn’t shot an antler off.

My best fallow buck by far.

I was way beyond stoked.

I gutted and left him. James would help carry him out in the morning.

Floating back to the tent, I

Carlos the Brazilian double dips After our success securing Carlos the Brazilian his first stag prior to lockdown, his next goal was to bag a tahr and chamois, so we headed to South Westland where there was a good chance of targeting both species. We arrived at the carpark just before dark. Deciding to get some of the walk in done

that evening, we shouldered our packs and went full steam up the valley under headlight, arriving at the hut in a record time of 4.5 hours.

First light saw us looking over some flats that often produce a deer but all the sign was a few weeks old. After breakfast, we

A young bull tahr, part two of the double

had a decent wash in a creek and a good crack at drinking it dry.

James had incinerated dinner, blaming my very late arrival. I explained what had transpired but, without seeing any blood on me, he refused to believe me.

“You think I don’t know what bloody day it is?” he asked.

It dawned on me it was 1 April—April Fools’ Day. He took some convincing but was ultimately impressed when, early next morning, we trudged home with the head of my ‘April Fool’ slung over my shoulder.

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climbed up a side creek and, while nothing presented itself for a shot, I did spot three chamois up high in some scrub country—the first Carlos had seen. We decided not to commit the whole day to this area and trudged back to the hut before packing up again and heading further up the valley to set up the tents.

As we passed a big slip, I mentioned to Carlos that this was exactly the type of place I’d expect to see a chamois.

After watching the slip for a while, nothing eventuated so we began to walk again. I stopped for one last glance upwards and spied the neck and head of a chamois peering down at us. Carlos quickly set up for the shot and managed to connect, bagging his first chamois—a nice mature buck to boot.

With part one of the alpine double ticked off, the next morning we left our tents and headed further again up the valley into tahr country.

The next hut was a welcome sight and had two hunters already in attendance. They had helicoptered in and

A chamois, part one of the double

were very accommodating, even greeting us with a cold beer! They had already had a successful trip, bagging a beauty chamois and had seeing good numbers of tahr.

After an entertaining evening we went our separate ways with Carlos

and I leaving the valley floor and breaking above the bush line mid-morning.

Some glassing revealed tahr scattered around the hillside in front of us so we put a stalk on a young bull tahr, which Carlos downed with a single shot. Nothing was

wasted, with Carlos taking the skin, head, and prime meat, which everyone later enjoyed at the hut that night.

Spirits remained high, reflecting on a successful trip despite the 13 hours of walking back to the truck to come!

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26 THE FISHING PAPER & HUNTING NEWS - OCTOBER 2020 Island is one of the final place for settlement. There are very few spots that could not be converted to excellent pasturage or tillage land.”

On 4 August 1849, the vessel Samuel Enderby entered Port Ross with 106 colonists on board. They quickly discovered the islands were not uninhabited as promised. A canoe with several Maori, clad only in sealskin greeted them.

“They were painted and had feathers in their hair, and had one man amongst them.”

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An uninhabited island When Captain Bristol on board his whaling vessel Ocean first sighted a group of islands to the south of New Zealand in 1806, he named them the Lord Auckland’s Group after a friend of his father, the first baron of Auckland.

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also become a stopover for various Antarctic expeditions and consideration was being given to the possibility of a penal colony being established.

Although this never eventuated, it did spark the idea of settlement with Charles Enderby, who secured ownership from the crown in the name of Samuel Enderby & Sons, a British whaling firm. They were very impressed by an 1823 report, “Auckland’s

Numbers were recorded as 47, comprising 20 men, 17 women and 10 children.

An account in the Journal of the Polynesian Society 1893 gives the number of 70, having being brought there eight years earlier by a colonial vessel from the Chatham Islands - 30 of them under a chief named Matioro and 25 under another chief Manature.

Although the new colonials got on well with the local Maori, the efforts to farm the land were largely unsuccessful, the weather appalling and the whole Enderby venture was an “unmitigated disaster.”

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In 2006, Marine and Outdoors owner Pete Walters escaped the city life to soak up the southern sun, get close to the water, and become a part of the Blenheim community. He’s never looked back.

And he’s not lying. The Marine and Outdoors team are the boaties reeling in a big snapper round the mussel farms; they’re the families setting up camp in the Sounds; the speed enthusiasts racing through the bays on their jet skis; and the parents that get out the grill rain or shine.

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Meanwhile, with Marine and Outdoors being Marlborough’s only specialist Weber BBQ dealer, Pete’s become quite a specialist on the grill. He reckons there’s probably nothing he hasn’t cooked on a Weber, and he’s had a hoon on the whole range. In fact, he’s often behind the grill on the yard, whipping up something for the team and whoever’s lucky enough to pop by.

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VISIT: MARINE& OUTDOORS EXPO, SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER, 9AM-5PM “This expo is the first one in our new space at 14 Horton Street,” says Pete. “We’ll have massive deals on boats, accessories, outboards, Waverunners, water sports, and Weber BBQs,” he says.

He’ll also be giving BBQ demos throughout the day.

“We’re just excited to see our customers, offer great deals, and help everyone get ready for a summer in and on the water, the beach and the backyard.”

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