The Fishing Paper & Hunting News - May 2016

THE FISHING PAPER - MAY 2016

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This year at the Navico Australasian conference we were rewarded for our efforts by being awarded the highest percentage growth for a NZ Dealer and also Custom Dealer of the Year for NZ. I believe these awards are testament to our customer service, technical skills and support, sales and positive feedback from our numerous happy customers. We are pretty rapt as we were up against some Simrad/Lowrance/B&G dealers who are major players and have been in the market for many years longer than we have.

It has taken a huge effort by both Daniel and myself to get to this point, but we accept we still have a long way to go and there is always room for improvement in what we do and how we deliver it. Things all started as a mobile business but rapidly expanded into commercial premises and a constantly full job board - a bit like being jet propelled backwards up a ski ramp and managing to land on your feet.

We want to take this opportunity to sincerely thank all of our customers for putting their faith in us and installing any of the fantastic product range we offer, or getting their on board electronics serviced or rewired. Although our main product is SIMRAD we service and fault-find with nearly any major brand being used commercially or recreationally.

A massive thanks to Annette, Crimpy, and the team at The Fishing Paper for their support and regularly allowing me to sneak through with the smallest margins of deadline time

to spare (this edition is no exception). We have tried other media to advertise in but this paper is simply the best: guaranteed results with great sales and nation wide exposure.

We now have customers from North of Auckland down to Invercargill and out to the Chathams! People read this paper and act!

Fluid is extremely fortunate to have someone as highly skilled and solution based as Daniel. He has got me out of the pickle on more than one occasion and turned a foul smelling situation into one that smells like roses. His technical reputation has spread far and wide, and the accolades for what he does best have been overwhelming, both from commercial and recreational customers alike.

We also work with Navico to get the right people to trial electronics on commercial vessels, support those clients during the trial, and supply constructive specialist feedback to Navico. This feedback also applies to other units we sell and while not all of our ideas are hits with the R&D team in Auckland, we do manage to get momentum and it’s nice to know we can influence change.

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Gladiator defeated in trench warfare Jono Delich - Cook Strait Fishing Charters

It took a team effort to conquer the Gladiator of the sea (left to right) Alan Chambers, Jonathan Delich, Junior Kreyl, Ranch Govind.

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Jono finally victorious after a 15 year battle.

ith a gap in the fishing charters and a good weather forecast, I took mates Junior Kreyl, Alan Chambers, and Ranch Govind headed out for an overnight trip targeting swordfish.

After two hours steaming from my base in Seaview Marina, Wellington, we set up for drift fishing over 600-800m water off Palliser Bay where the Nicholson Canyon and Wairarapa Canyon meet. We have been trying to catch a swordfish in the Wellington area for the past 15 years (we're obviously not very good at it!) and we've seen three surface swimming over the past five, and even saw one the week before this excursion.

At midnight on Tuesday 5 April our luck changed and perseverance paid off; either that or we got a lucky roll of the dice! The swordfish loaded up a Shimano 80W and custom 'Ginger Built' rod kindly lent by Greg Head. It was rigged with a 400lb leader and Mustad circle hook and whole arrow squid for bait. A blue lumo stick and diamond light had been added to trace and the bait positioned at about 80m under the surface..

I took the rod and commenced the gruelling battle with this gladiator of the sea, while Al, Junior, and Ranch cleared the other lines and got the gaffs and tail rope ready. Swordfish are powerful fighters, hence the name, gladiator, and this one wanted no truck with us. Several times. Al and Junior had to take over the rod while I manoeuvred the boat, because the fish kept taking line under the boat. Everyone was involved in the process and it needed the whole team to ensure a successful result.

After an hour, victory appeared to be within our grasp; the swordfish was sighted but any thoughts of triumph were quickly checked by the sight of a large blue shark circling it.

Junior quickly grabbed the leader and the swordfish was gaffed and subdued at the side of the boat before being brought onboard.

It was estimated to weigh 140kg!

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Staunch seven-gillers cut no slack Greg Gilbert

Having spent a few weeks chasing silver on Canterbury rivers and having a low patch at work, I figured I should get back to what I know best, surf casting.

After watching the time tick by at work, I raced home on Friday, packed my car and headed north, arriving in Kaikoura about 7.30 pm. I rigged up and fished for about an hour-and-a-half, using scallops as bait. I managed eight moki and a red cod, all undersize, so packed it in.

I met up with Greg Terras around 6.00am next morning.

It was cold but we didn't mind, so we fished for a couple hours but with not a huge amount of success - just a couple small moki.

Then the wind turned and was blowing in our face.

Although it wasn't pleasant, it wasn't bad either and it coloured up the water. I thought there could be some seven-gillers around so on went some salmon for bait. The first big bend in the rod proved me right and I went on to battle it out with three seven-gillers, a decent conger eel, and a small stingray, along with the moki and other fish I

Greg Gilbert with the staunch Kaikoura seven-giller.

caught. Greg also managed two seven-gillers. Of our catch, a couple were small, 20-40lb, but a couple were a bit bigger. We fished on into dark but it was pretty quiet so we retired for a well earned sleep.

Sunday dawned to a beautiful morning, which had us back at the surf full of anticipation. I threw out some rainbow trout as bait but, having seen Greg get a couple of dogfish, I was a little disappointed when my line went slack.

I said to Greg, “Here's a doggy for me,” and started winding up the slack. The moment I felt the weight come on, 50m of line suddenly peeled off my reel, straight out to sea! This was no doggy and thinking it wouldn’t be a

giller, as they usually swim along the beach, it was thrilling not knowing what was on my line. After a solid fight and plenty of rod bending action, some 20min later and 300m down the beach, I saw in the wave the brown shape and mass of a giller. Needless to say, I was very surprised as it was the hardest fight I've had from one. We thought it had to be foul hooked, but once we’d managed to beach it, and with a crowd of over a dozen people that had watched the whole fight standing around, we saw it was in fact hooked in the mouth!

A couple of quick photos and back it went to fight another day. A few others wanted photos and I possibly sounded rude with the way I said, “No, it needs to go back!” (So, sorry if you’re reading this).

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Wylie with a thumper trumpeter.

Coming up trumps with groper Kevin ‘Wylie’ Williams

Red Wickman and I like to chase groper off the West Coast from my 7.5m Osprey, Pamela J. She’s an amazing sea boat and a great platform to fish from, but it still takes a bit of local knowledge and accumulated skill to consistently hook up. For example, over the years we have discovered that the groper feed either side of the tides and as long as you get your gear down through the middle of the fish, you can expect action. Drift to one side and it’s like nobody’s home. If the fish show up on the screen but are not biting, we’ll put a jig on and annoy them until they come back on the bite.

On a recent trip a few fish were showing on the sounder but not much was biting. We did catch one stray groper that tipped the scales at 45lb but that was against the run of play. The next drift both Red and I loaded up with good fish - trumpeter - and they gave us a good scrap.

We were using Hunting & Fishing 14/0 groper rigs with squid/pillie combo baits; Red had a double strike and came up with two medium size trumpeter, while I scored this magnificent 27lb fish. They make splendid eating and are great fun on the rod. Often the trumps will come on the bite just before the groper, which eventually take over.

We were drift fishing in 20m of water and eventually went on to catch a feed of groper, ranging in size from 20lb to the biggie at 45b.

These West Coast groper fight differently to the d’Urville ones, fighting all the way to the surface. All in all, it was another great fishing day.

Red battled this bruiser all the way to the surface.

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The luck of the Irish Ron Prestage

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I had a busy time recently with my grandson James and his father here on holiday from Dublin, and wanting to do lots of outdoorsy things in New Zealand: fishing, mountain biking, kayaking and shooting, to name a few.

The very reliable metservice.com/marine and surf forecast rated the first Friday they were here as 8 out of 10 for Mid Tasman Bay, so that was the day to go fishing!

We traversed the Boulder Bank, crossed Delaware Bay on glassy water and started fishing north of the Whangamoa Heads. James was kitted up with a dropper set and a strayline rig to target snapper and before we got the berley in the water the snapper joined the party on suicide mission after suicide mission. We literally had to stop fishing for them and target blue cod and gurnard.

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STORY

Zac Berkett with his first snapper.

Zac in first class league Having just inherited a son-in-law, I figured I should do my best to make a man of him but things weren’t going to plan.

I’d had him out in Tasman Bay a few times but, despite others getting amongst them, I couldn’t get him onto his first snapper.

He was starting to look at me sideways so I opted for a change of tactics.

With conditions turning to primo on the Fensom Scale, we headed to d’Urville and went to a secret spot only known by 8,000 other fishos. I’d barely finished instructions and started the first drift when Zac mumbled, “Gee, I think I’m on!”

The bend in the rod suggested he was definitely on and it was no pannie; the violent bend in the rod and serious headthumps indicated a sizeable snapper.

We were drifting fishing slow jigs in 80m, using Shimano Trinidad 10a with a Shimano Ocean Jigger rod. It is important

to fish the line close to vertically through the water column, so some manoeuvring of the boat can be necessary. I like to drop the jig to the bottom and then work up through about 10m with an erratic jerk-flick action: a slight pause on each quarter wind with the occasional twitch of the rod tip thrown in. It works for us, as Zac was clearly demonstrating.

The fish gave him a good scrap all the way to the surface and had me constantly on the helm to keep a good position over the fish.

Zac was quite speechless for once but stoked with his first snapper - a stinking 15lb fish that is still his PB. We went on to catch a few more but nothing in the league of his first. I also managed a nice blue cod using the same technique so, all in all, it was a good day and nice to get the monkey off our shoulders.

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Good lobster in - good lobster out!

Daryl Sykes

Knowledge is key to the ongoing management and sustainability of New Zealand’s lucrative lobster fishery, with the cornerstone being science-based research. The fundamental principle, if you put rubbish in, you’ll get rubbish out, is the driver that has kept the NZ Rock Lobster Industry Council (NZ RLIC) focused on appropriate rock lobster stock assessment since 1997.

NZ RLIC has been principal research provider to MPI for almost twenty years and is guided by the business adage:

“Good science informs good management If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.”

Peter Drucker

In essence, this boils down to the need for consistently accurate and reliable data recording and reporting - followed by proper analysis and then use of this information in planning and decision making.

NZ RLIC doesn’t perform this role arbitrarily or in isolation but in conjunction with its regional management bodies (CRAMACs), MPI, and other science providers.

The lobstermen invest heavily in managing the fishery.

objectivity in the overall process.

There is a second research programme run by NIWA that delivers data on puerulus settlement levels from around the country. These are the tiny juvenile lobster, which are good indicators to the health of the fishery, but we’ll look in depth at these in a future column.

The people behind the science

From left to right - Paul Starr, Vivian Haist (sitting), Daryl Sykes, Dr Paul Breen, Darcy Webber and Charles Edwards. (standing) Photo credit - NZRLIC

Research programme process

NZ RLIC undertakes multi-year contracts covering stock monitoring and assessment, which can be broken down into these elements: • Stock monitoring - observer catch sampling, vessel logbooks, and tag, release, and recapture.

• Stock assessment - stock modelling, management procedures, and decision rules.

Each year the research objectives are confirmed in a planning process involving the National Rock Lobster Management Group and MPI Research Coordinating Committee, so it’s a good balance between industry other stakeholders, and compliance that ensures

Again, the assessment contract involves collaboration. NZ RLIC works alongside a selection of independent scientists and technical specialists, the core team comprising: Dr Paul Breen (Breen Consultancy), Vivian Haist (Haist Consultancy), Paul Starr (Starrfish), Darcy Webber (QuantiFish), and Charles Edwards (NIWA).

On the technical side, the electronic logbook database and TagTracker website is managed by John Olver and his team at FishServe, while field technicians, Gill Rowe, Simon Anderson, and Sonja Nissen directly support the fishermen. Observer catch sampling is carried out by Simon Anderson of Lat37 Ltd, independent Otago Fisheries scientist, Dr Bob Street, and a NIWA team led by David Fisher.

the entire fleet of a season produces a net result of significant proportion.

This extensive sampling is more likely to produce data that is representative of the fishery, particularly when there are large differences between catch characteristics of different vessels. There is also a practical, economic side to using logbooks - enabling coverage in remote or weather dependent areas, which can be expensive to sample using independent observers.

Logbooks are efficient, accurate, cost effective, and have the confidence of the fishermen, which means they are then more committed to management regimes that result from data collected.

While this research and science is expensive, it is viewed by the industry as an investment, not a cost.

It’s another adage New Zealand’s lobstermen live by, prudent investment leads to good dividends later - good lobster in, good lobster out!

Electronic logbooks representative of fishery

The traditional use of scientific observers to sample commercial catches has limitations. Logistical constraints mean observers generally only sample a large proportion of the catch from a small percentage of overall trips, and from a small number of fishermen in each region.

Better information is now obtained through the voluntary logbook system operated by individual operators from CRAMACs 2, 5, and 8. While logistical restraints limit each fisherman to sampling a small proportion of their catch on each day, the advantage of the logbooks is consistency and spread; every day fished produces a sample, and that small effort expended by

NZ RLIC technician Simon Anderson measuring and tagging CRA 5 lobsters. Photo Trevor Burkhart.

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Fishing for underrated species is always an exciting way to learn new methods and tricks that you haven’t tried before. Even better when you can apply what you learn from fishing for one species to target another type of fish. What better underrated species to target on rod and reel, than the flounder. Tyler McBeth describes how he…

Went soft for big blacks Sure, using a set net will catch you plenty, but do you really get the same satisfaction when catching one on a rod?

I had tried several times for them while float fishing with worms and had a few small yellow belly and sand flounder, but when the tide is slack, it can be a real waiting game. I decided one time to use a drop shot rig to target them. I had a small soft plastic lure a few inches from the weight on the bottom. I would just jig the rig along the bottom and over marginal shelves in the rivers, but after a couple of hours my target species proved elusive.

I went back to the same area the next day and used a Berkley Gulp! scented soft bait with a 1/8th oz jig head and twitched it along the bottom of the river slowly, keeping the rod tip up and pausing for a few seconds every now and again. On my fifth cast, I hooked in to a heavy fish that lunged back and forwards a couple times, and came up off the bottom slowly, but unfortunately came off only a few seconds later. I was guessing it was my intended quarry. The loss gave me confidence that what I was doing was working, but I didn’t get another bite that session.

With flounder on my mind, I tried for the next few days, giving it a hour or two of fishing. Changing soft baits, retrieval speeds, and location. I had a few small mullet and juvenile kahawai, but the flounder eluded me.

A several days passed and I returned hopeful. This time, I tried fishing for them at

the top of the tide instead of the bottom of the tide. I fished close in to the margins, letting it sink to the bottom, and slowly twitching it along. After 30 minutes of twitching the soft bait on the bottom and after being pestered by small yellow eyed mullet biting off the tail of my soft bait, I felt a solid thump. A heavy object was soon being dragged up through the water on my 1-3kg rod and 1000 sized reel.

Instantly, I knew it was a flounder. Lunging and twisting, I could feel every movement with the braid I was using. As the fish dived back to seek sanctuary on the river bed, I finally managed to lift it up high enough in the clear blue water to see it. A massive black flounder with bright orange markings.

As it rested on top of the surface, I had to try to get my net assembled. As I was busy fumbling around, the fish could have easily broke me off because it swam through some grass on the very high tide. Luckily, when I was ready for it to grace my net, I managed to coax the large fish got out of the grass and into the mesh.

Success!

My first flounder on a soft bait, and what a fish too - 2lb 12oz! Dark belly with what appeared to be several scratch marks on its belly and covered in lovely colouration on its back. Next time, I may find some smaller soft baits and micro jig heads, and hopefully I will catch an even larger flounder.

Tyler finally cracked the code to landing flounder on ultralight tackle.

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Captain’s Log: Beam me up spotty

Cuddling pandas or head-butting the buffalo?

I have just returned from a safari in Africa and while the hunting surpassed expectation, African nations do face major challenges, such as rural poverty, corruption, raping of resources (including wild animals), and economic mismanagement.

Most staggering is the damage the worldwide anti-hunting brigade and animal rights activists are doing to the people and ecology of that continent, which relies hugely on managed hunting to enhance wildlife and support local economies.

The Cecil the lion debacle, for example, had a huge negative impact, resulting in a downturn in hunting, increased poverty, and an escalation of poaching. To appease the bleating Disney crusaders and social media’s elite but ignorant keyboard warriors, several airlines banned the transport of legally hunted trophies, which resulted in many international hunters cancelling hunts. The net outcome was that more lions (and other animals) were then slaughtered by peasants turned poachers, simply because they needed the money to survive.

The locals, blacks and whites, are at a loss to understand the world’s outrage. Their cultures view animals differently to other countries and they put a value on them - commercial not esoteric. They

Shark… blown right out of water! story

also ask the question, “What business is it of other people in far off countries how we manage our wildlife, when we don’t interfere with the way others manage theirs?”

Vast areas of Africa have long been denuded of game for various reasons: to make way for settlement, poaching, or as a result of farming and habitat encroachment. But now wild animals are being re-established and complete biospheres rebuilt, and it is hunting operations, like the one I visited, that are doing it. Massive breeding operations all over South Africa are repopulating areas with game at huge expense and no government or animal rights movement is funding it. It is local farmers who have a passion for enterprise and a love for their endemic wildlife who have taken the buffalo by the horns and made this bold step to address the ravages of exploitation.

And how are they doing it? By selling hunting experiences to people like me!

It’s a commercial reality that no amount of ‘panda cuddling’ is going to change!

Linda Randall

We were enjoying the solitude of fishing in Spencer Bay, Queen Charlotte Sound, when it occurred to me that it was a long way from Doubtful Bay in Fiordland. While the connection mat seem tenuous to some, the link came via a rather nasty bend in my rod.

I was using my trusty Penn rod and reel, and hoping to do battle with something suitable for the plate, but the ensuing struggle told me whatever was on the end of my line had no table manners. It took an age to wind in and even had the grandchildren laughing that Nana had caught a rock. I wish!

There was great excitement when the water exploded beside the boat and this rather ‘displeased’ seven gill shark appeared.

My husband Roger, who does a lot of fishing, assured me that ‘they would never hurt anyone!”

“They just swim around the bottom,” he said. Yeah, right!

I was pleased he watched a programme on the Doubtful Sound shark problem a few weeks later … blew that theory right out of the water!

Doubtful I’ll be swimming in Spencer Bay anytime soon!

*”I have no intention of biting you!” Yeah right... clearly a female shark!

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Madison and Lachlan Greenaway

Our holiday was amazing. We had a bach at Duncan Bay and Uncle Mark said we were going out on the boat at 6.00am, so we went to bed early.

On Saturday, Madi, Jo (Mum), Win (dad), Uncle Mark Cotton, Miranda (au pair), and I (Lachlan) got up early because our brother Gabe woke us up at five!

We packed the boat and backed it into the water. Dad had forgotten to pack a life jacket and had to head back to the bach, so Uncle Mark asked me to help him around the boat.

We got the squid out ready for fishing; it was gross and when I pushed down on it, brown stuff came out.

Then we headed off to some mussel buoys, which had seals on. We decided they were eating all the mussels on the farm. Uncle Mark took the boat up really close and I named a seal ‘browny’ because it was brown.

That was pretty exciting.

Then we headed a long way to a place called ???????????. Gabriel caught a cod and dad caught one too.

Then we headed to the spot that mum was trying to find with the fish sounder that had all the fish, but it took ages to get in the right spot because mum is not a good driver. We finally got in the right place and did some fishing. Then we had to go around and around a few times, as there was a strong current. It was good though as we caught some cod.

Then my dad and Uncle Mark wanted to catch some kingfish, so we headed to ???????????? and we didn’t catch a kingfish, so headed back to Duncan Bay. Next morning we had pancakes for breakfast, then headed to the mussel farm spot for more fishing. We put some berley in the water and Miranda grabbed a jellyfish

out of the water. She told us all about it. It was slimy. We were there for ages and didn’t catch anything. I was so bored (Madi) I wanted to go home.

Then Uncle Mark decided to go to a spot that actually had some fish. We were getting lots of bites and then I caught a dogfish. Dad caught a carpet shark and my brother Gabriel caught two fish at once. It was pretty cool.

One was big and the other was small, so we had to throw the small one back. In fact we had to throw a few back. We saw some penguins also.

On the way back me (Lachlan), Madi, and Gabriel got to drive the boat. When it was Gabe’s turn, Uncle Mark told him to punch the gear stick down, so Gabe did and we all went flying backwards and almost fell off the back. Gabriel was also driving straight towards an island; he was a crazy driver. On the way home we stopped at another spot and caught our big snapper; it was huge.

Everyone was cheering and we got a photo with it. It was pretty cool.

We had loads of fun and it was cool fishing with Uncle Mark, and seeing animals we haven’t seen before.

Thanks Uncle Mark - till next time on the water!

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Science vs science not a science!

Dear Ed, Readers might have seen Fairfax papers feature an article ‘Battle for the Birds’ in which Department of Conservation scientist, Graeme Elliott, promoted DoC’s use of 1080. What I noticed was that it came down to DoC scientist Graeme Elliott versus ‘Ban1080’ scientist Bill Wallace. Bill Wallace is an ecologist with broader ecological views. I don’t know what science Mr Elliott is but botanists, for example, don’t always see the big picture - rather the small picture of a narrow botanical view.

What is not mentioned is within hunter ranks are scientists. The Sporting Hunters Outdoor Trust (SHOT) executive for example has several with degrees, three being well qualified science ones.

But a DoC scientist as a scientist by salary, has a vested interest. Even a Landcare Research scientist has a vested interest in working for a client such as DoC.

back - within three years, reaching three times the original number. No wonder monitoring three years later, shows a population explosion. So DoC, unthinkingly drops 1080 again!

1080 first developed as an insecticide, kills everything including birds, animals and insects. It’s an ecosystem poison. DoC is poisoning the ecosystem with such broad spectrum toxins as 1080 and brodifacoum.

Laurie Collins Sporting Hunters Outdoor Trust

Hidden evil in 1080?

Dear Ed,

The reality is DoC’s aerial bombardment with 1080 is ecological stupidity.

Research has proven fast breeding species like rats surviving 1080, surge

The recent Parliamentary process released information telling us that TB Free NZ/OSPRI NZ and Landcare Research had deliberately released possums inoculated with bovine TB into the Rimutaka Forest Park is mind boggling. Last year OSPRI told us they had spent $1.2 billion of public money trying to eradicate the possum, now they are boosting the numbers of TB infected possums in the wild. An OSPRI propaganda article (Dominion Post, 30/3/16)

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is laughable but also so damned serious. OSPRI are now going to aerially 1080 poison the Rimutaka’s to try and rid the area of possums. OSPRI are empire building - they release TB inoculated possums so as to gain further public funding to kill the possums they have helped to infect! Have OSPRI and their mates also released TB infected possums into the Mt Cargill, Mt Allan, and Berwick areas of Otago? Six TB infected possums have suddenly turned up in the Mt Cargill area.

The Government, OSPRI NZ, and Department of Conservation have no real research that backs their maniacal ‘blitzkrieg’ pursuit of the possum. A 1991 publication ‘Symposium on Tuberculosis’ reveals the great 70 million possum myth the above entities trotted out for years was a ‘guesstimate’. Yes, they also described the use of 1080 ‘blitzkrieg’ operations as well. The disadvantages of 1080 use were discussed also. These included ‘its endangerment of foreign meat markets’ and the ‘persistence of 1080 in sublethally poisoned sheep.’

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Ken Smith, Kentiki

This 15lb one blind eye snapper was caught using a Kentiki longline on the North Beach, Wanganui and was caught on a high tide set.

One eye was a pinky glassy eye, but I have no idea what happened to make it blind . The snapper had clearly been living on the reef, because of the colour and the bumps on the head . It took a fancy to a piece of fresh kahawai bait, which resulted in its demise.

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It doesn’t happen very often but recently it did, twice! We were skunked on two occasions and came home with zeros against our names.

Noisy cicadas, shrill and intense for weeks, led us to take a selection of that pattern to a favourite lake just east of Darfield.

It was a blazing blue and gold day and on arrival we found there were boat trailers parked absolutely everywhere – every square metre of the parking area, up along the road-sides, in the nearby reserve, up trees - nah we thought and quickly decided to go elsewhere.

We drove to a more remote location where our spirits rose in anticipation of a great day on the water. All day we rowed, drifted and stalked the edges and were puzzled by the dearth of finny creatures. Yes the cicada choir still sang but no, of fish there were none – where were they? Even switching flies did nothing to draw something from the nooks and crannies and change the state of things, although near the latter part of the day we both saw a single fish each – mine leapt clear of the water and my mate’s one briefly swirled just ahead of the boat.

Both agreeing the water was far too warm, we decided to call it quits for the day but undeterred, planned another trip to a deeper, perhaps more likely lake a couple of days later.

This time we thought – this time! We arrived to a bunch of spectators from other cultures, taking selfies while peering curiously at these two Occidentals with their boat. Again we stalked the edges looking for fish and after a time began to get that ominous feeling it was Groundhog Day. Undeterred we flailed on, remarking on the quality of the water and how easy it would be to spot fish – if there were any around. It’s a wonderful place to be with its mountainous backdrop in the distance and forest all around, filled with birdsong and cicadas!

“Yeah think the water is too warm again – after lunch let’s try a sinking line and get down deep – that’s where they’ll likely be.”

We drifted down the gentle breeze into a sunny corner where there was a tiny creek trickling into the lake and broke out sandwiches.

“Hey there’s a fish just where the creek comes out.”

“Oh and there’s another one –its fins are right out of the water – just in a few centimetres for goodness sake – OH and there’s ANOTHER one!”

The only fish we’d found were a rod length away, jostling

for the meagre in-flowing supply of cold water but while not readily spooked, they had no interest in the cicada fly.

Photos taken, lunch eaten, we set up with the sinking lines for a slow troll back to the other side of the lake. What happened next was, in youthful parlance, pretty stink and in full keeping with the ‘skunky’ nature of this tale.

My mate’s reel somehow ‘leapt clear’ of the boat as he was setting up but being on free-spool it plummeted rapidly to the bottom. Ever had to haul in hundreds of metres of line and backing? Course you have, it’s an everyday occurrence isn’t it?

Luckily no tangles ensued and we resumed fishing – you guessed – for no result. The wind became stronger so we headed back to the ramp, getting a soaking as we bashed through the whitecaps. Lately there’s been a bit of rain, the lakes will be cooler so let’s get out there again eh!

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Shots with lads AFTER the shoot

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There are few other events that drive such feverishly excited participants as the opening weekend of duck shooting.

It’s about this time of year that perfectly rational people all over this country begin to finalise their plans to sit in, on, or around a cold pond or paddock for hours on end.

Opening weekend has an exciting and festive atmosphere. Gear stores report a good spike of customer numbers in the shop. Many of these people are experiencing the ‘Call of the Duck’ for the first time, and their excitement is plain to see. They are often the guys with a new camo hat, slabs of shotgun ammo and a ute full of decoys, who start to turn up all over the country.

Participation in opening morning starts months in advance and some groups go to

great lengths to make the event special.

Some have even taken to using jetskis in favour of smelly wet dogs to retrieve the prize!

All this excitement can have an unfortunate and sometimes deadly side effect. Whipped up in the frenzy of the season some hunters push the boundaries of what is acceptable firearms behaviour.

Every year there are stories of people who either forget, or consciously disregard the basics of firearms safety. Normally sensible folks are lulled into believing that it’s okay to drink and handle firearms. It’s not.

There is something of a ‘boys weekend’ feel for some groups, particularly those having a go for the first time. Despite its traditional roots and cultural norms surrounding drinking and opening weekend it’s clear that unlicensed hunters,

drinking, long waits, and firearms can be a lethal combination.

Social and cultural change is a community’s collective responsibility. We collectively create culture, and what we’ve got currently is the result of our action or inaction.

Drink driving in NZ was slowly shifted to ‘culturally unacceptable’ by good people saying something. Morally, if you see someone drinking and in charge of a firearm you have a responsibility to say something. Letting this stuff happen means we accept this as a culture. Unfortunately, the consequences are often fatal if we don’t act.

MSC are advocating strongly for an enjoyable and safe duck season. Follow the Firearms Safety Code. You can refresh yourself on our YouTube channel if the last

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Hay River rescue David Guise

In February 2012, a launch dropped me off at the Hay River, at the head of Lake Hauroko. I intended to proceed west, past Sphinx Lake, over a low range to the Princess Burn, then continue south down the Cameron Range to the South Coast track near Lake Hakapoua. I was well equipped with 406 beacon, satellite phone, GPS, maps, compass, bivvy sack, fifteen days food, two solid sticks and ten years experience of wandering around Fiordland.

The launch operator, a veteran of Fiordland had told me that the Hay River valley was tough going and I could take eight hours to cover the 4.2km to the head of Lake Sphinx.

It was indeed as tough as any place I had been in fifty years of tramping.

Mostly, there was too much water in the river and it was too fast to wade upstream.

Frequently it ran deep and fast between sheer walls and it soon became apparent it would take me more than eight hours to reach the head of Lake Sphinx and a night in the bush was likely.

I was standing on a coffee table sized

boulder, when the piece I was standing on suddenly broke off and instantaneously pitched me face first into another broken rock.

‘Is this it?’ I thought. I impacted the rock with considerable force and knew it was serious.

I struggled back to my feet and felt a heavy drip of blood fall from my face. I fished a small mirror from my pack and was horrified to see a fat gash on my cheek welling a steady stream of bright blood. My field dressings were too small and would not stick to the fresh blood.

My first impulse was to dump most of my supplies and walk back to the lake. As I began to unpack, blood soaked everything.

At the rate I was losing blood, I might not make it back to the lake, so I climbed down the slope to a hole in the bush canopy and set off my beacon.

I then got a neck covering, folded it into four and pressed it tightly on the wound, but it didn’t stem the bleeding. I put on extra clothing to ward off shock, found a safe

seat where I would not fall if I blacked out and put my sleeping bag over my head like a tepee. I was unsure whether a helicopter would come before nightfall so I tied a small LED light to my GPS. My beacon was working but I was uncertain if it had managed to collect GPS coordinates through the bush canopy.

About 2.5 hours after I had triggered the beacon, the rescue helicopter hovered overhead, so the coordinates sent were accurate. At first, they could not see me through the tall dense bush, so I waved a red hat and eventually they spotted me and winched a medic onto a big rock some distance below me.

He helped me down the slope and up onto the big rock where I could be winched from.

After twenty stitches to my face, I was left with a scar from my left eye to my lip. It could have been very much worse. Even with the best equipment and years of experience, accidents happen. Beacons are essential equipment in the mountains and the search and rescue guys do a wonderful job.

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Safety colours - let’s do some digging!

Marie Willis

Every hunter should be aware that an essential element to hunting safety is remaining visible. This is where highly visible colours come into play.

If you check the origins of safety colours in the New Zealand hunting community, there is such a huge variety of information available, it is easy to get bogged down to the point of becoming utterly confused.

So how do we know what colours are best?

With Ridgeline in particular, it is interesting when you get to the bottom of it. Along with the industry standard High Vis Orange that Ridgeline use across their range, in both Blaze Orange apparel and Blaze Camo apparel, there is another colour that is prominent blue camo.

Blue camo gear is peppered throughout their catalogue, but not as a guess as to a great alternative colour. It’s an educated and calculated decision.

Mountain Safety NZ report that the United Nations Blue was confirmed as

Plenty of field testing takes place on the visibility of high vis gear before it hits the shops so, by the time we get it in our pack, we know all the hard work has been done and it’s not just a colour picked because it looks good.

the most visible colour in the greatest variety of conditions, across a range of hunting environments in New Zealand.

This is where the new blue Ridgeline range was born: the United Nations Blue is the base colour utilised in all Ridgeline blue camo garments.

The source document for the report referred to earlier is a document published by Mountain Safety New Zealand called: To Hunt and Return – developing safe hunting practice.

This project further demonstrates that Ridgeline puts a huge amount of research and development into its apparel and keeping us safe out there.

If you have the time I recommend it as an interesting read to give fellow hunters out there a deeper understanding of safety colours in New Zealand.

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“It was a hot summer afternoon and the family was picking blackberries. A hunt seemed a

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better option, so I grabbed the bow and set off through the trees; after years of rifle hunting it was time for a new challenge - the close up action of bow hunting.” Karl Barlow explains the exhilaration of…

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GIVING the bow a go

love the mix of technology and the primitive aspects of the sport. There is a real primal feel not prevalent with a rifle.

The discipline needed to accurately shoot and the sequence of steps required takes practice. After a year, I’m just starting to get the feel of a correct shot when there is no pressure; throw in the excitement of being only 20-30 yards from an animal, and placing an arrow on target becomes a HUGE challenge!

I’ve had to slow down a lot more and move quieter, which my 42-year-old, 6ft 2, 95kg body struggles with.

I glass more but my old binos didn’t cut it, so with major brownie points promised to the missus, I secured a new pair of Swarovski SLC

Karl shares the sweet taste of success with son, Sam.

10x42! Wow, what amazing kit: crystal clear, it is the best gear I have bought. Binos get you more animals than you believe, not just spotting game but also planning stalking routes. They are expensive but I was told once, if you buy quality - you only cry once - when you pay for them. I know, shut up, get back to the hunt.

I stalked on through the pines, making for a long thin grassy slip that often held animals.

Glimpses of the slip through the trees soon appeared, so I slowed to a crawl but looked for deer everywhere. I stopped short of the slip and glassed carefully. Below, I could see a couple of redskins feeding about 80 yds away. Soon, two turned to six!

They were feeding in my direction, so I formed

a plan to intercept the two closer deer. Crawling on hands and knees to a gap in the trees gave me a clear shooting lane. I rose from a small depression into a kneeling position but must have made too much noise, as the lead deer’s head snapped up and looked straight at me. I froze mid-crouch until she went back to feeding.

By this time, my thighs were burning. Every few mouthfuls, she’d look in my direction, so I daren’t move a muscle. I had earlier ranged the spot they would feed past at 26 yards, so now it was a waiting game, which had a detrimental effect on my noggin.

I started to overthink the shot. Would I stuff it up, would she keep feeding into my lane, should I move? Got to focus, keep my mind on the task

at hand. She was close now but kept looking my way. I waited until her head dipped behind a tree and pulled the bow up to full draw. I then went through my shot sequence: 1)

Check stance. I’m kneeling! Have practiced like this.

2)

Bow hand relaxed, arm slightly bent.

3)

Sight pin floating on target.

4)

Sight bubble level. Not quite! I twisted my wrist.

She was looking straight at me! I felt panic rising like bile but I fought to focus. Using back tension to release the shot, I still managed to ‘pull’ the trigger, but the shot felt good. Time yawned as the arrow closed the gap, striking perfectly in

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the fold behind the front shoulder!

The hind spun and bolted across the slip and into the trees. I could clearly see the arrow in her side but lost sight of her for a few seconds.

Then she reappeared in a gap and I noticed blood running down her front leg. She faltered, stopped, extended her neck, swung her head from side to side before keeling over and rolling out of sight.

There’s a saying that bowhunting allows you to experience the feeling of your first hunt, every time.

There’s a saying that bow-hunting allows you to experience the feeling of your first hunt, every time. Well, it’s true. I was rapt: pumped full of

adrenaline and doing cartwheels.

‘YEE HA’, stoked!

Once the nerves had settled, I started to bloodtrail the deer. I’d read that it is recommended to always do a blood trail, even if you know where your animal has gone down. There will be times you don’t know where the animal is and being able to blood-trail requires skill and practice: it’s not just blood, but scuff marks, broken foliage, tuffs of hair, and even smells that you have to detect.

Starting with the odd speck, the trail led me to the broken arrow shaft, so I knew the lethal end was still inside doing damage as the hind moved, then on to my quarry. She’d only run 50 yards before toppling.

A year ago I would have shot that deer from 100 yards with a rifle but would not have had the same rush I had from this close encounter. Bow hunting is the ticket.

So, any rifle hunters looking for a new challenge, give the bow a go.

Feeding deer.

Shot from here.

Deer fell here.

Karl outlines how the hunt played out.

AUTOPSY ARSENAL: Bow - Hoyt Charger; set 60lb ARROWS - Easton Bloodline BROADHEAD - 100gm G5 Havoc I was trying this mechanical broadhead for the first time: the Havoc passed through a rib bone, passed through both lungs, smashed a rib on the far side, and only just broke the skin on the far side. Both blades had opened fully and there was no damage to ferrule or blades - one blade was still razor sharp, while the other was blunt. I had hoped for a complete pass through for better blood trail, but two ribs soaks up a lot of energy.

The perfect shot - middle lung.

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SALE TIME! We are also selling-off new stock items that have been recently superseded. These items will be fully warrantied, and tested. There will also be a few ex-demo models available. For more information phone Jayden 03 9700 570, or visit: www.foco-optik.com Till next issue, happy and safe hunting!

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RIDGELINE CAMLITE BOOTS Daryl Crimp

OVERVIEW:

Part of Ridgeline’s new range of outdoor performance footwear, the Camlite is rated as a lightweight, waterproof, and breathable, high-cut boot suitable for extended back country applications. Available in sizes US7 - US14 I recently gave a pair a hammering on a three-week intensive hunting foray to the UK, South Africa and Botswana. While marketed as ideal for New Zealand conditions, this trip enabled me to test the boots intensively, over a short period, and in polarising conditions. I went from the miserable cold, damp, and wet of Yorkshire to hot the dry of South Africa, and then the very hot and humid conditions of Botswana. SO HOW DID THE CAMLITE STACK UP? Nyala are notoriously shy and difficult to stalk but, using the Camlite boots, Crimpy shot this from 25m in dense riverine bush

DESIGN AND FUNCTION:

For a start they look and feel well made: double stitching, sporty design and lines, light to the feel, and modern tread patterning. Good tongue shape and soft design, with strong semi-stretch laces fed through four eyelets across the bridge of the upper and three strong riveted hooks at the top, with good open gaps. This ensures they are easy to put on and remove, which I can attest to and this becomes an important feature when using daily over a long period.

The soles are well constructed: medium depth, quite flexible, medium rigidity, and constructed of semi-firm rubber. This translates to a boot of good grip, comfort, and medium foot support to accommodate a wide range of general hunting situations, rather than extreme pursuits like high alpine or snow.

The insole is medium soft rather than spongy, which should provide greater durability in terms of comfort. Importantly, it offers good arch support.

The welt, where the upper attaches to the sole appears well sealed and robust.

spectrum and in the hilly, bluff-speckled terrain where I hunted the mountain reedbuck, the boots were great. I often had to grapple with a mix of rocks and long grass and the tread was up for it, with the high cut design offering good ankle support and protection.

In Botswana, I switched to sneakers for stalking the bushveld but had to quickly switch back to the Camlite; quite surprisingly, the tread design and construction proved much more quiet and proved the Camlite to be a good stalking boot!

Strong hooks and double stitching.

IN THE FIELD:

The first thing I noticed was that the sizing is generous, so there were no immediate pressure points and, surprisingly, the was no need to wear them in. I took a back up pair in case of blisters but gave them away part way through the trip. The Camlite were light and comfortable from day one.

In terms of warmth, waterproofing, and breathability, they performed well overall in the grisly English conditions. We were often stalking drains, very wet grasses and crops, and always in mud soaked terrain, and I was hunting from 5.00am through to 9.00pm, on average, everyday for seven days. The boots never had a chance to dry out and showed signs of slight dampness seeping through to the socks by the end of day five - but no obvious leakage.

Africa took them to the opposite end of the

We were averaging 10km per day hiking and stalking, so it was a good measure of the boots all round comfort and functionality. Overall, the performance was very good and I was only just beginning to notice pressure points in two places on the sole of my right foot (not uncommon because both feet are never identical), which is not bad considering the prolonged use and miles racked up.

The temperatures in Botswana were up in the low to mid thirties with moderate humidity and here the breathability of the boots started to struggle, but not to the degree of being unbearable.

OVERALL RATING:

Given the rigorous schedule I put the boots through and the price point, I think the performance was impressive. As a lightweight, robust yet comfortable general performance hunting boot, they are definitely worth checking out. Any shortcomings or flaws were only exposed at the far ends of the spectrum so, for New Zealand conditions, they fit the bill. The proof being in the pudding: would I use them again? Well, the fact that I left a more expensive pair behind in Botswana, should answer that.

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Heat a heavy based saucepan over a high heat and when hot, sear fillets all over until coloured.

Remove to an oven dish and bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for eight to ten minutes, or until just cooked. Remove and rest the meat for ten minutes to allow juices to spread back through each fillet.

While the fillets are baking, reheat the saucepan over a hot element and pour in stock. With a wooden spatula, scrape the pork residue from the base of the pan to add flavour to the stock.

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Add more oil and fry cabbage until edges colour, turning occasionally to avoid burning. When cabbage is cooked, pour over a couple of good glugs of Worcestershire sauce, but don’t overdo it!

Make a bed of cabbage on each plate. Slice each fillet portion diagonally into three and arrange on cabbage - top with fried mushrooms. Spoon the sauce around the plate and the dish is ready. Trust me - this dish is sensational!

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They shoot horses don’t they?

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There are pigs up yonder hill, predominantly rooters with hooters grubbing busily. They may be grubbing but theirs is a rock garden - from pebble to portaloo size, there's more rock than soil. The pigs will be hunting skinks, tipping over their homes then eating them as they try to escape. They're tipping over young pine trees too, or squashing them with displaced skink homes.

I like skinks. I like trees. So I begin a stalk up the open face above me, rifle at the ready. Halfway there and a back-wind warns the sows of my evil intent. Just one little puff that shoots up my chute and relays them a short story of human endeavour.

They leave.

Onwards and upwards. The sows may have gone but their offspring remain. The little fellas are not yet fully educated but they're learning quick. From under boulders, from behind mounds and out of

till I can’t see (this fat lady does not sing). Aha, binoculars on black. Big black. Boris!

He's way over there, I'm way over here. I look at my watch, I look at the skyline. I can do this.

Sidling, sliding, I dash towards a lone manuka two gullies around the basin. That lone manuka is my marker. Below it, feeding in waist-high matagouri and hip-high wild grasses is my target. If luck is with me I will spot him, if not, he will ghost away in the dark never knowing I was on his case.

Almost there, I slow my scurry, steady my breathing and unsling my rifle.

Sneaky, sneaky, beady eyes darting hither thither.

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Boris’s downfall was a wild carrot patch.

gutters young pigs of various sizes emerge. They're like a herd of migrating wildebeest all grunting and instinctively walking in the tracks of those who've walked before them.

Goodbye pigs. Hello rain. I see it coming, a squall which bounds over the main range and blows my way. A wind-whipped downpour that soaks me to the skin. I manage to keep the binoculars dry but the top end of my rifle scope resembles a kiddies paddling pool.

As I emerge bedraggled and panting onto the top plateau, I see pigs’ bums wending their way through the matagouri on the skyline hundreds of metres away. It’s late evening, I'm saturated and I have not one but two dicky ankles. Camp is kilometres away and killing naughty porkies is losing its appeal. Yeah, nah.

Empty-handed, I limp dejectedly over the top and down the far side. Campward bound this January evening towards a loving husband of fourteen years and a cold beer to celebrate that fact.

Stopping intermittently, I scan the surrounding basin; darkness is drawing in but it ain’t over

till I see black ears amongst them. Then a black forehead.

Rifle crosshairs centre on porcine forehead. Bullet flies, brain splatters. Boar down amongst the wild carrot and he's a beaut.

Now its 9:10pm and overcast (and no torch). The road is a kilometre away, which would be fine if it wasn't all sidling through hip-high wild grasses that hide an assortment of rocks from pebbles to portaloo size. I shuffle and stumble, shin-whacks and bum-bruising-bounces emphasised with 'oohs' and 'ouches' as I hurry towards a hair-pin bend far below.

Reaching that corner and the beaten track is a hallelujah moment. It means I can now crack into an arthritic amble. With two dicky ankles I'm not sure which to favour, nor when. I wobble off towards my long-suffering husband and that cold beer like a broken-down standardbred racehorse.

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No troll Joel strikes gold with Toby Jimmy Teen

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Did a sneaky mid weeker recently; all the stars lined up and we shot out of Okiwi Bay in a light SE wind on a beautiful autumn morning.

Popped around into Taipari for a look on a rock that used to be a reliable cray spot. No luck on the crays but the water was clear and we managed a few tarakihi each, plus a pair of chubby goatfish – or red mullet as

they call them up north.

These are a tasty fish and are often overlooked as a takeable species.

We moved up to the Paddock Rocks and, as is often the case, the water was a lot dirtier, although quite fishy on the spot we chose. We managed a few more tarakihi , butterfish and a moki for the smoker.

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breeze came up it actually felt warmer in the water than on the boat; thank goodness for the hardtop.

My advice here is if you are cold and can’t warm up, go home. Don’t be afraid to tell your buddies, don’t think you can tough it out, and don’t get back in the water.

Watch for signs that your buddies are cold too. Wear a windbreaker over your wetsuit at this time of the year and don’t wait until you are cold before you put it on - its too late.

We tend to find that we don’t venture so far during the winter mainly because the days are just too short to do it. Putting on and taking off wetsuits in the dark is no fun, so the local spots get a few visits. So stay safe and look out for your mates.

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Spearfishing in the backyard

The jet boat skimmed effortlessly up the Hokitika and in no time Mike McClunie was setting us up for a drift from above Kokatahi. It was a boys’ day out: me and son Joel, and Mike and his boy Finn.

Mike attached the Minn Kota featuring integrated GPS technology with i-pilot: with a remote around your neck you could control drift, programme drifts, and hit anchor lock when you find a nice stretch that requires fishing.

I’d only ever had Joel trolling before so casting for trout was a new experience for him. I made him cut his teeth on the classic black & gold Toby and he soon got into the rhythm. We hit anchor lock and proceeded to fish a nice looking deep pool under overhanging willows. On his tenth cast for the morning he struck solid and the nine-year-old proceeded to give it stick. He was a bit overgunned, armed with a soft-bait rod and braid, but the trout leaped a couple of times and created a thrilling spectacle.

Once it was boated, he leapt about, high-fiving Finn and admiring his first brown from the ‘Hoki’.

Now he can’t be bothered with trolling and is nagging me to go ‘casting’ all the time. I might have to introduce him to the fly next!

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Shoot it and you die!

Jason Searle

Every hunter loves the Roar, but many overlook another very productive period immediately after.

May is a time when many switch focus to duck shooting, but Heath and I also like to slip away and see if any stags are lurking in the open.

We arrived at our hunting area and were soon climbing the hill to a lookout over the valley. We spotted a couple of spikers taking a nap in the sun but decided to leave them, as we knew there were bigger stags in the area.

Reaching the top, we dropped into the next valley where we headed around to a spot I’d found the weekend before. It afforded a good view down into the creek where there were some nice grass areas.

I was busy watching the scrub face opposite us when Heath spotted a stag on the flat. I looked down and, bloody hell, was he a goodie!

I have been chasing a good 12- point stag for a couple of years now and the boys know their lives aren’t worth shooting him from under me.

Heath quietly asked me if I wanted to take him but we also have a rule the spotter

gets first choice at shooting the deer, so I declined.

As we were getting closer for the shot, he looked in our direction. Dropping to his elbows, Heath sent the Berger the 270 yards to drop the stag on the spot. At the shot, a good 8 - point stag and two hinds appeared from the face we are on and make off.

To say Heath was smiling when he rolled the solid 13-point head out of the grass would be an understatement.

Man, was this guy big and I was relieved when I saw him up close because it didn’t look like the head I had been chasing, but it still didn’t stop me giving Heath shit for shooting him. Care was taken to not damage the cape as he skinned him for a mount and we were soon climbing back over the top and making our way back to the ute.

As we descended, Heath spotted a couple of hinds on the opposite face. Darkness was closing in so I rushed to get into a shooting position, spooking them and they moved off up the face, two turning into four. Before they reached the top, they stopped and looked back. Taking a seat in the long grass I sent

It was a long night before we got home, loaded with lots of meat and a head most would be stoked with.

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The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) annually reviews catch limits and management controls to make sure we are managing fisheries to best provide for use, while ensuring the long term sustainability of our fisheries resources. The review uses scientific and other fishery information to identify the stocks that may need changes ahead of the new fishing year on 1 October 2016. Once the group of stocks for review have been identified, MPI produces consultation documents outlining what management options could be considered for introduction. These documents are published on the MPI website so interested people can provide feedback.

Some of the fish stocks planned to be reviewed include PAU7 (paua in Nelson/Marlborough) and SNA7 (snapper in Nelson/ Marlborough and the West Coast). More stocks will be added as they are currently being reviewed.

The latest scientific information for PAU7 indicates the stock is at a low abundance and measures are required to rebuild the fishery. The commercial fishery has voluntarily not fished a significant portion of the commercial catch limit over the last four years to support this rebuild; however, the rebuild has slowed and the commercial sector has asked for the fishery to be reviewed.

The upcoming sustainability review will consider catch limits across all sectors to ensure they are sustainable and likely to result in more paua being left in the water for future generations. Meetings with various sectors groups have begun and will continue over the next few months to discuss information on stock status, and options to ensure a healthy fishery for all.

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In line with our recreational initiative for these important fisheries we have brought together a multi-sector group of recreational and commercial fishers. They will consider if any changes may be required and develop options and look at the future of the fishery, as we did with blue cod in the Marlborough Sounds. This group has been meeting since the start of this year. They recently held a series of public drop-in information sessions in April to present the latest information on SNA7 and to discuss the fishery prior to considering if any changes are required.

Once the multi sector group, in conjunction with input from stakeholders and the public at the drop in sessions, identify what they think the best management options are, the group will be holding further drop-in centres around the top of the South Island to give people an opportunity to have their say on the proposed options. If you live in the Nelson/ Marlborough area and have an interest in the fishery, please come along and have a look at the information presented and provide your feedback.

If changes are ultimately recommended, further consultation will occur later this year. These are both key shared fisheries and it is important that if changes are recommended that they have wide understanding of why they are needed and are widely supported. Keep your eye on the consultations section of the MPI website for more information on PAU7 and SNA7 and other proposals for October 2016 or email recfishingteam@mpi.govt.nz to let us know which areas you would like to be kept updated on.

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Tata Beach is in Golden Bay, over the Takaka Hill from Nelson and not far from the Takaka township. You pass through Pohara and Ligar Bay to get to Tata Beach. Plenty of holiday accommodation is on offer there.

Over Easter Weekend I shared Tata Beach with a host of other users. Fortunately as a surfcaster the times I needed to be on the beach were when others were still tucked up in bed, or were back home enjoying dinner and a relaxing evening after an action packed day on the sand and water.

At dawn I had my rods in the water and the only other person there was a sole swimmer, in for a very early morning dip!

As the sun came up others started to stir. Next on the beach was a stand up paddle boarder who carried three SUP’s down to the shore near me. She then came over and explained she was a yoga instructor, who took her classes out on the water balanced on SUP’s. Three of them paddled out using their arms and proceeded to do yoga positions about 200 metres offshore. A lot of laughing came from the group when one of them toppled off into the drink from some contorted yoga position.

I was ready to pack in the surfcasting around 8.30am. By then the commercial kayakers had started to place their fleet on the shore and the customers were lining up for a briefing.

From then on the beach action increased. The boat ramp at the other end of the beach was being used by a steady stream of recreational fishers. Two kayak fishermen arrived next to me with their kayaks bristling with rods, buckets and sounders.

Two females in conventional kayaks were along for the ride and the fun.

Later in the day the beautiful golden sands of Tata Beach were taken over by swimmers and sunbathers. The designated water ski area was also well used by skiers and sea biscuit riders. The rocky headlands at each end of the beach drew a lot of people, especially young ones, who clambered over and

An idyllic surfcasting spot at the Wainui Bay end of Tata Beach.

around the rocks.

The first evening there I went to the beach a bit early as the last of the swimmers, sunbathers and beach exploring crew were still active and a couple of 14 foot surfcasters in action amongst them was just too dangerous. The next evening I waited until the sun had sunk low and the beach had cleared.

Surfcasting on a weekend trip with family requires a bit of extra planning. With other weekend supplies filling the wagon minimal fishing gear was taken. This required a checklist to make sure I had the essentials, bait, rods, reels, tackle box, rod stands and small chilly bin.

Other evening fishers told me they had been catching pannie snapper but all I had to report for the weekend was a huge hit from what I assume was a stingray, as these could be seen in numbers from the road above Wainui Bay which is next to the Tata Beach. Baitfish were easily caught from the beach using sabikis laced with mussel from the nearby rocky headland.

Tata Beach is a very relaxing surfcasting spot with the favoured Wainui Bay end only 50 metres from the car park. It is a great place to spend time at, especially if family members are keen on other beach activities besides surfcasting.

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My young son, Dominic Johnson, loves fishing and will go as much as he can, as often as he can, so when we heard the Appleby Fish Out Ponds were holding an opening day in early April, the stage was set for another excursion.

We had to book a time, which is not surprising, as there must have been over thirty kids there. It was brought together by Blue Light Police and Tradezone Gone Fishin’ with an appearance by host, Graeme Sinclair.

Sponsors gave the kids treats and older anglers gave up their time to teach the kids how to fish with a fly.

Dominic had caught a little trout while fishing with Grandad Glenny Johnson at Karamea, but that was more a fluke than

by design. This was his first attempt at fly fishing and he persevered, with expert tuition from his guide, Richard. He’d been flogging the water for at least an hour and ended up the last kid on the pond; all the others had drifted off for the prize giving, but Dominic was determined to catch a fish. Richard changed the little fly and put on an orange arrangement, and - BANG! He hooked up to great delight and ultimately brought in the biggest catch of the day - a beautiful, plump rainbow trout weighing over 3.2kg.

He was delighted and got to show it off to Mr Gone Fishing, and collect a brand new rod and reel for his effort.

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BOOK REVIEW THE COASTAL GARDEN

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Reviewed by Mike Whittall When I first picked up this weighty publication I immediately thought it was another gardening book, in the same mould as I view the plethora of cooking books. Even the blurb on the back cover which stated, “essential reading for gardeners and garden designers,” reinforced my initial thoughts.

It wasn’t until I flicked through the many sections of the book I found myself totally absorbed by the wonderful array of photographs - and some helpful diagrams – all placed to illustrate key points the author is making. Throughout the theme of ‘connecting with nature’ prevails, taking into consideration the wide diversity of location, landform, geology and life forms in our small island nation.

In this respect the reader will find chapter two particularly helpful. Here the author has identified 13 diverse geographic regions of our islands, then set about identifying key features of each. My attention was immediately drawn to the Tasman Bay- Golden Bay section, given my family has recently bought a coastal property there. Here I was introduced to buggar grass, sand sedge and trip me up. A wonderful photo of Wainui Bay estuary also caught my attention. Elsewhere I also read about kohekohe that grows well in the lower

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