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THE FISHING PAPER & HUNTING NEWS - AUGUST 2018

Kayak Fishing seminar with Rob Fort

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Rob is New Zealand’s highest profile independent kayak angler who is known for writing, photography, film, and design. His passion for the marine environment is reflected through kayaking, fishing, spearfishing, and various enterprises, including education. Rob has been recognized within the marine industry, with international awards for kayak fishing films.

Part of the education and promotion process Rob undertakes includes talks,

seminars, and appearances at various clubs, boat shows, and retail stores.

He also engages with the wider community as a main contributor of kayak fishing columns in NZ Fishing News and NZ Bay Fisher magazines. Rob also publishes various product reviews as part of this: see an example: http://www. bayfisher.co.nz/old-townpredator-pdl-kayak.html This also includes a following through social media platforms and also features regularly (most

weeks) on The Fishing Show, Radio Live.

Rob has been actively involved with various companies in product testing and development within the marine, tackle, and fishing industries during the last ten years. He is a co-owner/ operator of dedicated kayak fishing business Coromandel Kayak Adventures (Go Kayak Coromandel Ltd).

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MARINTEC Dave James Big and grunty gets the job done This month we continue the subject of deep water sounders.

Power is very important when it comes to a fish finder. 1kW, 2kW, 3kW… they sound so similar… but remember that 2kW is DOUBLE the power of 1kW; and 3kW is THREE times more powerful.

When you are trying to target species in 300+m depths, there is no substitute for power. The best analogy I can provide is to imagine holding the garden hose up to a wall, whilst standing 2 metres back from the wall.

Now turn the hose on half flow, and you will get some water splash back at you.

Now turn the hose up to three quarters flow, and with the additional water flow you will get a lot more splash back. Now turn the tap to fully open, and you will get soaked.

Well, it is similar when it comes to power with a deepwater sounder; if you want to see weaker fish targets in deep water, you will need adequate power.

The more power you have, the more chance you have of receiving a return signal

(echo) off that fish/school.

When you think about it, we are usually looking to target a bottom species within 10m of the seabed, but when those fish targets are 400-500m below you they are going to be tough to detect! Most of the signal resonates off the fish’s swim bladder. This is not very much surface area in which to get a sounder ‘ping/return’ off so you need extra power in order to get the best chance of seeing that fish on your sounder.

Some leisure sounders purport to be 1kW, but there is a big difference between recreational 1kW dual frequency (e.g. 50/200kHz) diplexed transducer, and the commercial 1kW rubber transducers. The performance and power of these rubber commercial 1kW+ transducers is significantly higher than those leisure 1kW transducers.

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Five tips for winter diving Wetsuit Thickness During winter there is no denying the sea temperature can get frighteningly cold, especially in the south.

Wetsuit thickness is an important factor to keeping warm and can be key in the success of any winter dive. Sorry to say, that 3mm summer suit just isn’t going to cut it. You really need to be in a 5mm or 7mm wetsuit with a hood to keep your core and vitals warm.

If you’re cold to your core you can’t function properly, run the risk of making bad decisions and ultimately put yourself in the firing line for hypothermia.

It is important to note that changing the thickness of your wetsuit will change your level of buoyancy and so weight adjustments will need to be made to counteract this.

Personally, I use a Wettie

Bryn Williams

5mm open cell wetsuit, which has a built-in hood and even in the heart of winter, my core remains warm. In saying that, the 7mms have winked at me once or twice on the rack in June/July.

Extremities Numb fingers and toes are a classic winter diving trait. This is usually what forces us out of the water before anything else. You can guarantee the winter water will find those holes in your gloves and booties.

Seal those odd holes before winter takes a grip or invest in a decent set of gloves and booties. Having a frozen trigger finger when that big fish swims past is not ideal.

A hood is essential, as brain freeze takes no prisoners.

Most winter dive suits will have a built-in hood but it is possible to buy a hood separately. Consider a dive

Winter diving can be hugely successful off Kaikoura

vest with an attached hood if going for this option, as there will be more warmth hugging the core.

Prepare As with any adventure, remember prior preparation prevents p… poor performance. Use warm water to get into your wetsuit so you’re toasty to begin with. Have warm gear ready for when you get out, a Stanley flask can quickly become a dear friend. You might see a new meaning in the saying, “chicken soup for the soul.” Don’t hang around in wet gear like you can in summer, it’s hard to equalise with colds and flus when you’re off sick.

Pick the conditions

You catch a lot of ‘bugs’ in winter

Winter can offer some settled dive conditions and uncrowded reefs compared to summer. That being said, it is key to assess the conditions carefully as cold diving in poor visibility or choppy seas is a recipe for

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disaster. Diving the majority of the day is great when the water is warm but wintery seas usually put a hold on proceedings fairly quickly.

If you’re making the effort to enter the water in winter, make sure the conditions won’t be a limitation. A general rule of thumb is to look for conditions with a sea swell under one metre and little to no wind. The perfect swell and wind direction will differ between dive locations but often offshore winds flatten the sea. When checking the forecasts online, look a couple of days in advance to see how the sea is behaving.

It might need a couple of days/tides to clear after a significant weather system hits.

Know your limitations When the sea temperature

is at its coldest, your diving performance will change.

The body uses more energy to keep warm, leading to slightly shorter breath holds and dive times. Don’t push yourself. If you start to shiver, listen to your body.

It’s telling you enough is enough. Response times could be slower than usual, so be aware of making good decisions. It is sensible to dive areas you are familiar with. That way there is no wasted time looking for new productive spots. It is better to save scouting missions for when the water is warmer and not a limitation.

For the prepared diver, winter doesn’t have to be a time for hibernation.

Invest in good gear, pick the conditions well, listen to your body and make the most of it!

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THE FISHING PAPER & HUNTING NEWS - AUGUST 2018

Last shot ‘sealed’ the trip

Patrick Noone

Of all my trips to the canals this one was by far the one I was looking forward to the most. The fish were on the move and I had a pretty good idea where they were headed.

Jayden with a Tekapo ‘seal’

I had fished this spot a fortnight ago and got some stunning fish. Then I saw the forecast, which wasn’t looking good at all. I was making the trip down with a few mates and had pretty much guaranteed them big fish, so I was nervous to say the least.

We got there Friday about 7.00pm and headed straight to one of my favourite spots for big browns, hoping to get stuck into a few. My luck on the previous two trips trying to land one didn’t go to plan.

I didn’t hook a single fish and I’d put in a lot of hours night fishing for them, most nights fishing all the way through until first light.

We’d only been fishing 15 minutes and I was hooked into a good fish. Another 10 minutes and he was in the net, a stunning jack, 19lb. Five casts later and I’m in again, another lovely brown, 14lb. I thought this is gunna be some night but not another touch and I fished it trying all my little tricks.

None of them worked, so we called it a night and put the heads down for a quick two hour nap to energise ourselves for the morning.

We only managed small fish and were going to pull the plug but then decided to give Tekapo one last shot just before dark. Great move, second drift Caleb and Jayden were hooked up.

Caleb’s fish took him 100 metres down the canal but Jayden’s wasn’t moving.

“This thing is huge!” he shouted.

“Get the net, get the net, quick, quick, quick, it’s just

Patrick with a hard won brown

in front of me!”

It can’t be that big I was thinking. It’s only been five minutes. I slowly walked over and looked in and my jaw dropped. It was like looking at a seal, this thing was so fat, not that long but just so fat and just sitting one metre out in the current. I

snuck in behind it and told Jayden to drop his rod and it rolled straight into the net.

I’ve seen a lot of happy anglers in my time but the smile on Jayden’s face is one I won’t quickly forget. The fish weighed just over 32lb, twice the size of his previous biggest fish.

It’s hard to believe he’s only 16 and already a fantastic angler, who no doubt will have plenty more fish over 30lb to come. Caleb landed his fish and another straight after, 15 and 20lb.

Well done lads looking forward to our next trip, pray for good weather.

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For once the weather man was right, it had rained all night and the wind was so bad I could hardly open the door. We got to the Tekapo Canal and it was badly coloured but we decided to fish it anyway. We only caught one fish the three hours we were there so we decided to try Ohau A. There wasn’t much flow but enough to be able to drift our eggs and we managed half a dozen small fish just before the light faded and the wind got worse.

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Lucky Lucanus

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snapper extremely well but are very effective on: trevally, kingfish, tarakihi, gurnard, blue cod and plenty more.

The deep cold waters surrounding the Marlborough Sounds and d’Urville Island are the prime focus of many fishos over winter, and for good reason. The area, at this time of year, provides a fantastic residence for some of our favourite fish like the snapper, trevally, tarakihi, and kingfish. The abundance of baitfish, strong currents, and deep water work together concentrate these fish populations, which very much plays to the fisho’s advantage.

A variety of methods can be used to target these fish, but the one we have been using more than any recently has been slow jigging with Shimano’s Lucanus jigs. These little jigs are available in a variety of colours and weights designed for different water depths and stronger currents. They not only catch

For getting down in the deeper waters surrounding d’Urville Island, the 100gram and 150gram jigs are ideally suited. A lighter weight rod that has a nice parabolic action is suited to fishing these jigs and helps to put action into the jig as well as keeping pressure on the fish during a fight. Shimano has some great offerings available for this, such as the new KAOS series of rods and the Energy Concept series, which should be paired with a small over head or spin reel. Shimano has a variety of these reels available at all price points.

The technique when fishing these jigs is very minimal so you don’t have to be an expert to catch fish! Drop the jig to the bottom and wind up very slowly for the first 10 to 15 metres, then simply drop it back down and repeat. When you do feel a bite try to resist the urge to strike but keep winding instead; you should feel the bites continue and the fish will, most of the time, hook themselves.

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Tench moments after rainbows’ release With word getting out about rainbow trout being released in arguably the country’s finest tench fishery, Vaughan Morrissey and I were keen to investigate.

We arrived on a cold, rainy afternoon. The wind was southwest. Focusing on the deep water on the western side of the lake, we decided to focus our efforts using heavier jig-heads to get distance and also to fish with a moderate speed near the bottom. Without much avail,

we tried walking around the lake to see if we could see any fish rising or find a shoal of these fish. Lure fishing in Rotokohatu felt alien to us.

We had only coarse fished the lakes with bait in the past when targeting tench.

Finally, after a couple of hours, I had a follow from a rainbow trout, which confirmed to us they were present in the lake. A few casts later and I had hooked my first target species. The trout didn’t fight nearly as hard as a tench of the same size but I was glad to finally

Tyler releases a rainbow for the enjoyment of others

Tyler McBeth

have a jack of around 2lb in the net. The caudal and dorsal fin were worn down, which was unsurprising for being a stocked fish. Not long after, I had caught a female rainbow trout, which I returned. The flesh of the male trout was orange and would be perfectly fine for eating. The water quality in these lakes is good after all.

The session ended with us hooking five fish in one area. We saw plenty more fish rising in the place we were targeting as well. The best approach we found was using small white or yellow soft-baits on 1/12th– 1/8th sized jig-heads, keeping contact with them as they fell through the water column, then twitching the soft-bait back gently just above the bottom.

The lakes at Rotokohatu have been without predators for years, causing the numbers of tench to be very healthy. These lakes have been the nursery for tench in North Canterbury since the ‘60s. A sudden abundance of predators in both lakes could have a negative impact on the population of tench in the lakes in years to come.

This could affect other coarse fisheries in the region, due to Rotokohatu being the ideal waterway where Fish&Game

can transfer large numbers of adult tench to other existing ponds without affecting the population in Rotokohatu itself. The coarse fishing competitions that take place at the lakes, such as the trans-Tasman event, could also be in danger. People come from all over the country, and even Australia to fish Lake Rotokohatu for the amazing tench fishing to be had!

Coarse fishing is a sport to be enjoyed in the warmer months of the year when the tench are actively feeding.

With the lake being open all year, the rainbow trout in the lakes could provide the fishermen of Christchurch with an easy trout fishing venue in the winter months, when most waterways nearby are closed to fishing.

The trout are said to be unlikely to spawn in the

lakes, as the gravel pits are full of aquatic plants. The lakes are also quite sheltered from the wind, which is not ideal for spawning as well.

Overall, whether you prefer to eat or release stocked trout, or even use them for shark fishing bait, Lake Rotokohatu is a lovely lake to fish and plenty can be caught in a single session if you locate those shoals.

If our marine environment is not closely monitored, we will be invaded.

This is not a trailer to a Steven Spielberg movie, but a reality that is already upon us.

We are all familiar, to some degree, with the risk ballast and bilge water from foreign vessels poses to our biosecurity, but how serious is it?

Larnce Wichman opens the lid on…

Greeblies that could turn our sea into soup Members of CRAMAC 5 recently attended a Marine Bio Security workshop in Nelson run by the Top of the South Marine Bio Security Partnership, in conjunction with NIWA and Cawthron Institute.

Our primary focus was to learn how we as a local industry can better contribute to monitoring marine biosecurity, particularly in our own backyard. In part, this was motivated by a scare we had with squat lobster at Cape Campbell.

What the workshop did highlight was just how vulnerable New Zealand is, being an island nation we are exposed to all kinds of marine pests.

This is not scaremongering but a problem we all need to be cognisant of, particularly in light of recent changes to the marine environment: the way water temperatures are rising throughout the year, we must expect to see a proliferation of marine pests, which will rapidly mobilise on the back of warm currents. This could impact directly on our valuable

weeds like Undaria or Asian seaweed is a type of kelp that can quickly take hold and dominate native species; and organisms like the Mediterranean Fanworm can all arrive here via boat hulls.

On a positive note, the workshop showed us that a lot of innovative work is being done behind the scenes to combat these issues, like the designing of a plug and pump sterilisation unit that will flush pipe work in yachts and other vessels.

commercial and recreational lobster fishery; there are pests out there that consume crustaceans, which could prove devastating to juvenile lobster. An attack like this could also trigger the spread of other bad diseases throughout our fishery.

The pests are not only swimming creatures but come in other forms:

We at CRAMAC 5 believe we, and other fishers, can play an active role in contributing to the monitoring of our coastal ecosystem. Lobster fishermen, recreational or commercial, have regular contact with the sea bed when we harvest. I know there are some weird things that come up with pots at times, that we can’t identify. CRAMAC 5 has issued all our vessels with New Zealand Marine Pest ID Guides to help our fishermen identify any strange ‘objects’ or pot ‘hitch-hikers’. If they are just strange, that’s okay, but

if it is a pest we can play our part and report it.

If you have spotted something that you have not seen before, ask your nearest commercial lobster

fisherman if it is identifiable in the ID chart. More eyes on what is in the water and on vessels, and the greater the success in keeping our marine environment healthy.

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Salmon derby ‘bloody marvellous’ - The Judge We were in Cold Bay Alaska because of the salmon fishing. The weekend we arrived was the local salmon fishing derby, so all the locals were out fishing.

It is a huge community fundraiser, and a lot of people come in just for that weekend.

We had, over the week, four sessions salmon fishing.

The first we went to a small stream on the edge of town

salmon. The Judge and I kept one each and we ended up eating one of the fillets for dinner a couple of nights later.

I mentioned to Jeff one evening that the weather was looking good, but he said to give it five minutes and it would change. We are used to four seasons in one day here in New Zealand. Cold Bay can have four in one hour!

Graham Gurr

would be an understatement, it was superb; in three sessions totalling only eight hours of fishing I landed 21 salmon, most were silver salmon (best eating) but also pinks (aka Humpies) and chum (aka dog). Both the Judge and I lost a whole lot more.

In fact, our last session was the morning of our departure and we managed to get two hours in before we had to

Gurr reckoned the salmon fishing was worth going back for

you could jump across and not get wet. Some of the salmon in it though would have difficulty turning around — they were as long as parts of the stream were wide. Under overcast skies and intermittent rain, we used spinning rods to catch

Our other salmon fishing was done on Russell Creek; the locals have taken the road right to the best pool on the river so it is easy access for them. The Judge and I fly fished whereas most of the locals used spinners.

To say the fishing was good

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The Judge’s judgment on the trip was, “Bloody marvellous, where shall we go next?” Personally I’d go back tomorrow. Anyone want to join me?

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PISTOL SHOOTING

Brian Bishop

Chaos in super shoot out My new pistol, a 9mm Chaos race gun, has finally arrived and the big question is — is it as good as I have been led to believe?

It looks smart, has a new style of grips, new magazine well, and has had some serious machining to help grip it under recoil, so much so that it can actually cut your hands. I have some work to do on my magazines due to the gun being a 9mm whereas my last gun was a .38 Super. Not a big problem though, as it is an easy fix.

The next step is to develop a new load so the ammunition is optimal for this gun. Every open pistol needs a custom load and it is a matter of trial and error until you get the load that best fits the new gun. I have had to shorten the overall length of the rounds and take a small drop in powder. All simple fixes and things that we often do.

So how well does it work? Happy to say that it is going very well; it shoots tight groups, which is ideal. By this I mean shot after shot is landing within a very area creating a small

group, which was promised and delivered.

To go with this, the recoil is sharp, quick, and giving very little movement, which means follow up shots can be fired rapidly. This is critical when shooting IPSC due to ‘double tap’ being required on all paper targets, shooting as fast as you can to score the highest points with the shortest time taken.

So, you may be wondering am I happy? The short answer is YES, as it has shown me that it can perform well and is very accurate and flat. The true test will be how well the gun and I perform at the next big match, which is the North Island Champs in September. This will not only be a test for my new Chaos but also for me because I will be going head-tohead with Aaron Manson and his new .38 Super. Let’s hope Chaos reigns supreme but watch this space and I will let you know.

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Last One Standing Kim Swan

Rehydrating with the umpteenth cup of tea after a long hard day on the hill I pondered my situation. I’d been pig hunting for 36 hours, tag-teaming two dog packs in this vast and extreme country. Between pigwrestling, the tough underfoot conditions and the brutal cold of mid-winter in the high country, four of my five canines are lame and fatigued.

Out in the wilds all creatures great and small are doing it hard. Days are short, the sun is dismal and food is hard to find. Pigs are thin and hungry, newborn litters perish quickly and survival is not assured for even the most mature of animals. Only today I found the cannibalised carcass of a skinny sow, her gut devoured, her bones cracked for the marrow within. Desperate times call for desperate measures, her misfortune is another pig’s saving grace, albeit temporarily.

I prodded another couple of kanuka lengths into the fire and nursed a final hot cuppa, deciding tomorrow I’ll take the one dog with me. The one dog who’s still entirely sound and with reserves of energy and enthusiasm.

My oldest by age but not my oldest by nature, the irrepressable little Chop.

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Chop has small dog syndrome. He has no tail. He’s had an injury in the past so one eye isn’t looking the same place as the other eye.

He currently has fang marks on his snout ‘cos Rocky, a dog with a tall and proud tail, sneered at Chop’s small bob. There was a ferocious fight, Chop won but not without battle scars. He fights pigs too, pulls their ears and insults them as best he can. He shows them, oh yes he does.

We headed out into the sparkling white frost in the morning, just Chop, the rifle and I. Went past the cannibalised pig, past fresh goat innards and past a dead cow, none of which had overnight attention.

Annoyingly we alarmed paradise ducks,

which wheeled overhead warning other animals of our stealthy existance. Not that Chop needs ducks to announce him. I do believe he’s magic. He can make just a few laps of creek water into hundreds of squirts of urea-based foliar feed. He’s very conscientious about it, ensuring every straggly manuka shrub and every ice-fringed foxglove gets its share. Rocks, dead thistles, deceased creatures, everything gets a signature squirt which says, “Chop was here.”

Several kilometres into our walk the little fella lifted his nose and deciphers porcine scent on the frigid downdraft. Up there in the manuka and matagouri he finds dung and prints and digging. He carefully unravelled the tracks till he sources a pig. It’s a black sow just a couple of kilos heavier than him.

Without formal introductions or further ado he grabbed her ear and hung on.

It’s steep, almost vertical and when I arrived dog and pig are equal to each other. Despite my best endeavour I lost my footing and the sow’s tail pulled out of my grip. She hurtled downhill with Chop in pursuit. On the flat they once again began to compete for ground, him pulling back, her pulling forward. Chop has done this hundreds of times in his short lifetime and he can be a doggedly determined holder, when he makes up his mind nothing will stop him, not the pig nor me.

On arrival I ditched my rifle and gear, quickly aware the dancing duo are circling towards a 20 metre drop into the river. The flat was sodden in a recent flood and now it is an ice rink, slippery and unforgiving. Once again I bungled my grab, flailing and sliding uncontrollably. The pair circle and at my next attempt, Chop dragged the pig away from me, not wanting me to spoil his fun. One more go, frantic now as the drop is looming perilously close. I momentarily grasped a wet and slippery trotter, then it’s gone.

Seconds later they’re tussling right on the brink.

The sow’s back feet dropped over the edge and I yelled in desperation, “Chop, no!”

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For the first time ever ever - Chop let go without hesitation or defiance.

The sow dragged herself forward and sought the security of a lone matagouri, while Chop stood back from the dangerous edge.

Forewarned perhaps by a sixth sense, or the fear in my voice, he knows he’d been in dire straits. Cool-as he gave me a look, with his good eye, “no drama boss, settle down.”

With a cuddle from me, the delicious warm pig’s heart to eat and a few laps of water, the little white dog escorted me homewards. There’s a strut about him indicating he is very aware this time he is unusually lucky to be the last one standing. At 200 special signature sites he pees a second time, Chop is still here!

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New season tackle from Black Magic Black Magic’s range of freshwater products continues to expand and the next few months will see some further additions as they look to build on their growing fan base. Here are a few things to watch out for as we head towards spring.

Leader has long been a strong focus in the range. They already have fluorocarbon tippet and Deception, a green coloured copolymer tippet. One to watch out for in your local store around the end of September is their latest offering – Deception Ultra Pink. Pink leader has a following amongst some anglers as a line that is seen as having lower visibility, particularly when water

conditions are less clear.

Deception Ultra Pink will be available in 4lb, 6lb, 8lb, 10lb and 12lb. Being a copolymer rather than a fluorocarbon, it offers great value while still maintaining quality performance.

The lure range has also seen some expansion in recent times and there will be more to come by November. Earlier this year, the BMax 60 bibbed lure range expanded by 5 colours, so if you haven’t sighted those, it’s worth trying them out.

There are also two yet to be released lures. The first one is the Rattle Snack, a “ribbed” metal spoon with a treble hook. Like the name suggests, it has a rattle to give it that extra attraction.

There will be five colours and two sizes – 7g and 14g.

The second one is the Spinmax. This has a weighted body, a spinning blade at the front end and a treble hook adorned with “flash” thread. There will be five colours and 3 sizes – 6.5g, 9.3g and 14g.

The Enticer range has two new additions too in both the 7g and 12g sizes. The new colours are “Red Belly” and “Carp”.

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Marty Bowers —Senior Fisheries Analyst, Inshore Fisheries Management, Fisheries New Zealand

Further measures to support the rebuild of the CRA 2 rock lobster fishery Fisheries New Zealand recently held multi-sector workshops in Whakatane and Thames to discuss ways each sector is, and could contribute to the rebuild of the CRA 2 (Hauraki Gulf/Bay of Plenty) rock lobster fishery.

The Minister of Fisheries, Hon Stuart Nash, decided to significantly reduce the commercial and recreational catch allowances from 1 April this year to ensure a rebuild of this very important shared fishery. The total allowable commercial catch was reduced from 200 to 80 tonnes, and the recreational allowance was reduced from 140 to 34 tonnes.

Attendees at the workshops acknowledged that although all sectors are managed differently, they all need to contribute to the rebuild of CRA 2.

The 16.5 tonne allowance for Maori customary non-commercial fishing interests anticipates the quantities allowed for in the customary permits issued by Tangata Kaitiaki and does not act as a constraint on customary catch.

Many Tangata Kaitaiki in the CRA 2 area are already limiting customary permits of koura (rock lobster) to do their bit to contribute to the rebuild, with overall harvest considered to be well within the allowance.

The commercial catch reduction has already seen some significant changes to the fleet, with several vessels off the water,

causing some negative socioeconomic implications. Given that commercial catch is tightly constrained to the allowance through existing reporting and catch balancing requirements, no further measures are being considered for commercial fishers at this time.

This leaves recreational fishing, and the requirement to look at measures to manage recreational catch on average to adjust to the new 34 tonne allowance. The National Rock Lobster Management Group and the multi-sector workshop attendees agree that making a change to the recreational daily bag limit is the most effective way to manage recreational take from the fishery. There is general support for reducing the recreational daily bag limit from six to three rock lobsters. Other measures such as reducing recreational pot limits, setting an accumulation limit and introducing a closed season have been discussed, but have been parked for the time being and will be considered in the future if they are needed to support the rebuild of the fishery.

Another measure that is being considered to assist with minimising illegal take in the CRA 2 fishery is the introduction of telson clipping – the requirement for a recreational fisher to cut onethird of the central/middle telson

of the tail fan of a rock lobster on taking. Telson clipping is a tool that can assist with reducing illegal black market sales of rock lobster on the domestic market. The actual level of black market trading from within CRA2 is difficult to accurately assess, but is not thought to be as high as allowed for. The usefulness of telson clipping in this particular fishery as a tool to slow the illegal take is debatable, but will be left open for the full public consultation round.

Fisheries New Zealand will be

consulting on further measures for the CRA 2 fishery in the next couple of months, so please look out for this. Your views and feedback will be sought on proposals to reduce the recreational daily bag limit from six to three lobsters, and whether you support the introduction of telson clipping.

In the meantime, we encourage you to fish sustainably and to look at ways you could support the rebuild of the fishery, be it through taking less crayfish or targeting other species.

For up to date information on your local fisheries sign up to the recreational fisheries mailing list by emailing us at recreationalfisheries@ mpi.govt.nz or by visiting www.fisheries.govt.nz

Marlborough Sounds area closed for blue cod fishing The Marlborough Sounds is closed for blue cod fishing from 1 September until 20 December.

This is to support the reproduction of blue cod by reducing disruption to spawning behaviour and reducing catch numbers.

No person may take blue cod from areas marked on the map. You could be fined up to $10,000 upon conviction.

During the closed season, you may transport blue cod from the Challenger East area into the Marlborough Sounds area as long as you can prove where the fish were taken from.

To check the fishing rules for your area, download the NZ Fishing Rules App, visit www.mpi.govt.nz/fishingrules or email recreationalfisheries@mpi. govt.nz to sign up to fishing related updates in your area.

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What’s in my daypack?

Carol Watson - Advanced Archery NZ The contents of my daypack aren’t quite as comprehensive as my handbag and the list of essentials are quite different. This list is by no means all I carry but these are the things that relate specifically to bow hunting.

Allen keys to tighten any screws that come loose.

A small plastic container to put a broad head in. I shot a deer on my last hunt and recovered the arrow in two pieces so it couldn’t go back in my quiver. It was handy to have the container my Helix broad heads come in - for my safety and for the sake of my favourite daypack.

Wind Check, I go through at least a couple of bottles of it every year. Knowing exactly what the wind is doing is vital to planning a successful stalk on an animal.

Face paint. I have tried face veils and masks and always feel hot and bothered in them. So I put my glamorous face paint on and I’m way more particular about keeping my ‘make up’ fresh when I’m hunting than working! So I take face paint with me to reapply if I’m out all day. I use Camo FX which doesn’t come off in the rain but I still like to check it

and add a bit more if it has rubbed off.

I always have a spare release aid, and I had to call upon it for the first time on my last hunt. My Carter Quickie suddenly felt a little rough and wasn’t going off smoothly like it should. I could feel a bit of movement in the trigger before it fired and it needed a bit of TLC. I do alternate between the two release aids so I am confident in which ever one is designated the spare should I need it. Apart from a spare release aid in case of an equipment malfunction, my friend Shirley told me the story of walking to her blind to hunt whitetail with husband Tim filming, getting settled and not being able to find her release aid. They walked all the way back to camp - in silence I imagine!

R.I.P.

Garry Sharland

H.O.T.F.W. Ivan Wilson

My wife Jilly came home one evening and said, “There’s this interesting guy at work – you’ve got to meet him, he likes fishing.”

A bow sling so I can carry my bow slung over my shoulder or across my back if I have a long walk back.

Especially if it’s dark and the terrain is a bit tricky, having two free hands is useful.

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When I finally did, he was wearing brightly coloured braces and I thought, ‘Yeah trendy guy – interesting alright.’

That was many years ago and since then there has been a huge number of fishing trips, leg pulls, gags, and laughs to remember.

You might already know this guy from earlier Coastlines stories in the TFP where he was known as He of the F Word (H.O.T.F.W.) I gave him this moniker after we began our tradition of not mentioning ‘fish’ en route to the lake or river; like taking bananas, it’d be bad luck.

Tricky when that one thing is the very essence of the day.

Fishing was never dull with Garry Sharland on board, such as the classic time we launched his boat without the bung in – we all do it at least once. He quickly turned around and went full noise out onto the lake to get suction going and when most of the water was out, he somehow managed to get the bung back in while steering simultaneously.

Back he came with his big trademark grin.

His imagination devised another little game: playing at Guide or the Client, depending on who was fishing or rowing at the time.

“Now Mr Wilson, if you drop a fly to the right of that clump of reeds by the flax, I think there might well be a fish.”

Then we’d swap roles and that sort of thing would

amuse us on and off all day.

With H.O.T.F.W. you had to be on your guard - I have been the butt of one or two of his pranks including the time I had a fly up a tree that was standing in the water around the lake edges. While reaching up to retrieve it, the boat mysteriously began to move away and I was left grasping the tree in order to avoid a dunking. Clack went his camera and I was captured as a ‘tree hugger.’

Debate about fly versus threadline led to another one. He’d begun to play with softbaits on fine braid using a light threadline. When I said it looked quite nice for a threadline he said, “Ive, just try it, give it a go.”

Having not threadlined for decades, I was curious so made the mistake of falling for his ruse. The retrieve began and clack went his camera – he produced a fine likeness of the Cheshire cat. But its all been in fun (I think).

He got me out spotlighting, however my night vision is a bit suspect and somehow he reckoned I had the light ‘a full metre behind the animal all the time - you

I’m impressed with how he managed to get so much out of a day – early morning fish, followed by some hunting, then on into the evening for a night shot.

A recent Saturday morning my wife got a message and suddenly exclaimed, “WHAT! Hey Ivan, Garry’s died!”

Both of us were incredulous over the news.

The funeral brought together a big crowd to show support to his family and demonstrate how many lives he’d touched with humour and friendship. They biffed the mould away when they made Garry and he made our lives better with his big personality and his humour.

But at 59?

Be you angler or hunter, never lose an opportunity – go do it, enjoy it, and come home a better person for it. Oh and don’t be afraid to keep in touch with your well-being and GP, so you can carry on being a fishing buddy or hunting mate.

R.I.P. H.O.T.F.W. — my good friend.

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Optically Speaking

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easy to use. It fits onto a Weaver/Picatinny rail by means of an elevation and windage adjustable mount, enabling precise alignment with the riflescopes crosshair. The unit is activated by a wired remote control that can be conveniently attached to the rifle stock. A high quality anti-glare OLED screen displays both distance and inclination, which can be set to single measurement or scanning.

The new Sternhelle AUX-LRF 7 is designed to read distances up to 700 metres in daylight and more importantly at night, when a shooter has no reference points for gauging distance being reliant on a night vision or thermal optic to spot and shoot. From my own experience of shooting rabbits with a suppressed .22LR, the combination of a small target and a low velocity bullet makes distance calculation critical. Due to the clarity of Yukon and Pulsar night vision, combined with a magnified image, I tend to underestimate distance. A target that looks 50 metre away is actually 70 or more metres away causing my shot to fall short.

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My first experience with the AUX-LRF 7 was very positive, shooting a rat and five rabbits with seven shots with a suppressed .22LR BRNO Model 2 and a Yukon Photon 6x50 night vision riflescope. The ranges varied from only 20 metres out to 70 metres. Check our website for more information: www.foco-optik.com The Sternhelle AUXLRF 7 fitted to a Yukon Photon 6x50 night vision riflescope.

Melody of a mallard mourned Ben Sowry

This wasn’t the best hunt of the season for me, nor was it the most memorable.

It was a solo trip and only a 10 minute drive from my front doorstep so didn’t incorporate an element of adventure. In fact, it was just a quick outing before work.

What this hunt represented for me is the stock standard morning in Marlborough. If I was to mix heat and distil my season, this day would be the average.

The dark was cut by the obnoxious drone of my alarm. One eye open, the other rusted over by sleep, I swiped it to snooze in my zombified state and resumed my slumber. Five minutes later, deja vu sets in and the damn thing blasted at me again. Met this time with slightly more cognitive activity. As I slapped at the light switch, I muttered something under my breath, questioning why I took up wildfowling, rather than golf or badminton, or some other sport involving sleeping in.

I could’ve stayed. It wouldn’t matter in the long run. I headed out shooting most days, right throughout the whole of the three-month season.

The freezer brimmed with duck and out there, it was as dark and as cold as, well, my freezer. It was too bloody early in the morning for analogies.

“I’m awake now,” I said to myself and threw on the uniform of fleece and neoprene and headed out the door.

A couple of birds flushed off the pond from the headlights when I arrived. They’d be back. Or not. This is my backyard possie and the last thing I wanted to do is void it of all birds, I actually wanted some to get away from me.

I threw out my decoys.

Six home flocked grellard imitations set as three separate pairs. I prefer using less decoys mid-season. I could conjure a plethora of reasons. They’re in smaller groups and pairing at this time of year. They’re used to big spreads at this stage of the season and too many will put them off. My reason for six? Honestly? I can’t be bothered setting out and picking up any more, no further reasons really. It’s early and I’m lazy.

The first customer arrived, whistling in the ink of shadow. A lone drake, I heard his guttural plea for company. I complied with a single hail call and he was cut with a single shell from the double. The pukekos

shrieked in resistance and the drake struck the water hard. The retrieve was the first and done with the headtorch, flaring off other birds as I walked back to my flax bushes.

A few more pairs passed over and the odd single.

Some responded to my ‘good mornings’ from the Hammond and others carried on in their midseason aloofness. Pair of swans passed over, well within range.

“Take them?” I asked myself.

Instead I kept working my clucks and chuckles on the lone, pleading greenhead, that was on his fifth pass.

Just one more swing around and I’d slice him. I didn’t. He carried on over the flooded land, in the same direction as those still living swan.

At 8.00am and it’d gone cold. The ceiling voided of mallards.

I pulled in my six deeks and, true to the laws of Murphy, a last pair hooked over low. A couple for tomorrow eh? Gotta go get ready for work.

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They tell us that we only use a small portion of our brain, but we know that when we see ‘something’ there are a whole lot of neurons that go flying around our brains that tell us a myriad of information such as how close are we, what colour it is, what it smells like, who or what it is, are they/it happy or angry.

Do we like it or not. Fight or flee? And a huge range of other information that gives us the reaction to the ‘something’ we have seen.

In all this, ALL our senses are used to identify and

react to the ‘something’.

The advice we are given when we go boating is to take two forms of communication. But what does that mean?

Perhaps it should say two forms of APPROPRIATE communication. What you take to cross the Cook Strait may be different to what you take to Lake Taupo — then again, you may decide to cover all your bases and take it all.

What is appropriate you say?

A cell phone MAY be appropriate, however is it waterproof, and can you charge it? Can you use it with cold, wet fingers?

Who you gonna call? Ghost busters can’t help you. Is it

Know your VHF? “Yes, over!”

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Am I going somewhere that I may be in restricted visibility? So if no one can see me, how can I communicate I am here?

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close to us and not showing on the radar! They needed a reflector triangle to communicate they were out there! Otherwise they were completely unseen and unknown.

What about a winding bendy waterway? How are you going to communicate then? One prolonged blast of a horn as you approach a bend will alert an oncoming vessel that will then reply with the same signal…

Communication!

Flares are a means of communication if you are in distress but make sure you know what type of flare you need in the area you do your boating. Remember, they are a form of communication, however, if no one can see your flare it is like a tree falling in the forest; if no one is around does it make a noise?

The same could be said for waving a flag, if no one can see you, don’t waste your energy!

But if you see a flag, you need to know what it means.

A blue and white flag with a swallow tail means there is a diver in the water so you

must keep to no more than 5 knots or less within 200m of the vessel it is flying from — but where is the diver?

Make sure you are keeping a good lookout! The flag is communicating a diver is in the water but not their whereabouts! Other items being waved frantically about may mean someone is communicating they need help and don’t know how else to attract attention!

So there you go, a few ideas as to how you can communicate, some ‘out of the box’. And don’t forget that a torch can be used to flash a light at someone if you need them, a horn will attract attention from anyone within hearing distance, and a Marine VHF Radio tuned to channel 16, even if you don’t know the correct words to say, will alert any number of vessels also listening on 16, and a number of coast radio stations that you need assistance.

Don’t be afraid to communicate.

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Captain’s Log: Beam me up spotty The cradle of civilisation

Africa is just one of those places words and pictures fail to do justice. You have to experience it to understand it.

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I could write a million words about our experiences

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Butch barbecues the bait!

Barrie Clark It happened a few years back now. It’s a simple but happy memory of one of those superb summer evenings in the Marlborough Sounds, the air warm and the water calm in the little bay where our bach was tucked beneath the spreading ferns on the terrace.

“Shall we head out for a fish after tea as the tide comes in?” asked my brother-in-law Butch.

“Sounds good, there’s bound to be snapper about,” I replied.

“But we’ve got no bait.”

“No worries, we’ll take the dinghy out and grab some mussels off the rocks.”

The girls were on tea duty, with a barbecue planned, so, having been assured we would return to the sounds and smells of sizzling sausages and steaks, Butch and I were away. We dragged the wooden dinghy, which had enjoyed a good soak on our arrival earlier in the week, so its timbers had expanded and become watertight, off the grassy terrace and across the shelly beach. Then we pushed it out.

Manning the oars, I rowed over the clear water, out of the secluded bay and around the point into Onahau Bay

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towards Postman’s Rock.

So named because, years earlier, mail had frequently been dropped off there for later collection by the locals, who lived isolated lives in the bush and among the hills along this stretch of the Grove Arm. From nearby rocks, exposed at low tide, we harvested a great collection of large mussels, prising them off with the back of the blades of our knives.

Soon the bucket was full.

We sat on the rocks as the sun began to drop in the sky and planned our assault on snapper which, we knew from experience, slipped with the rising tide into many of the little bays to enjoy a feed of shellfish and crustaceans.

Butch took the oars on the return journey and soon we were stepping ashore back at ‘The Anchorage,’ a tiny bach and boatshed set in the punga-dominated bush and our home for the week.

To our disappointment, we were not greeted by barbecue smoke curling upwards into the still air, nor the aromas of red meat and snarlers almost ready for consumption.

Instead, although the girls were still where we’d left them, their previously quiet conversation had been

replaced by Chardonnayinduced and somewhat raucous laughter, and it was obvious the evening’s tucker was a long way away and might even be forgotten.

“Do you like fresh mussels straight off the rocks, Baz?” enquired Butch.

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“Too right!” I replied, with a chuckle of happy anticipation.

The barbecue hot plate was soon in a fit state and half-a-dozen mussels were quickly steamed open. A trickle of lemon juice and a quick extraction with the fork followed.

“Hell, Butch, they’re great, do a few more!”

So, with stubbies or wine glasses in hand and the forks in constant use, the pattern for the evening emerged, as the setting sun, the lapping of water on sand and shells and the calmness of the bush all worked their magic on the four of us.

Sometime later, I recalled our original plans for the late evening.

“Hey Butch, the tide’s nearly in. We’d better get out for a fish,” I urged.

“Won’t happen,” he laughed, peering into the bottom of the bucket.

“We’ve got no bait!”

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For the next two hours the family rode their mountain bikes along the Chasm Creek walkway, so called because of the deep chasm-like gorges cut by the creek flowing under narrow footbridges and down steep sided gullies. The track passes the site of old timber mills, first Watson’s Mill then later Mumm’s Mill. The Department of Conservation has established information stops along the way and made efforts to preserve old timber milling and coal mining relics wherever possible. Also to be seen are the vague remnants of early grazing land, established once the native bush had been cleared.

The track then meets the Mt Glasgow Walkway, then links up with the Charming

Creek Walkway, originally the access route and rail line into the Charming Creek coal mine. Other tracks crisscross throughout the region, remnants from the early endeavours to reach more and more trees and in the search for new pockets of coal as the current ones began to run out. The region is full of historical surprises at every turn - the site of the distinctive bowstrung suspension bridge over Chasm Creek, the Mangatini Falls and a 50 metre railway tunnel provide additional interest.

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The new mountain bike trail over the Old Ghost Trail, which starts at Lyell, ends at Seddonville. After a stopover and refresher at the Seddonville Hotel, beds are available there, or at the Seddonville Holiday Park, the old school with all facilities including bunk rooms for mountain bikers, the ideal finish is to ride the extra two hours over the ‘Ch – Ch’ trail and end at Ngakawau.

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Smart new kid on tech block

Julie and Callum McDonald

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Relative new kid on the block, electronics specialist MARINTEC was established in 2013 but it boasts an impressive lineage. Julie and Callum McDonald seized the opportunity to purchase the electronics arm of respected Timaru company Sullivan & Spillane and, in doing so retained the highly professional team but with new name and direction. Callum had worked for the company since 1988, after leaving the Royal New Zealand Navy as a qualified marine technician, his depth of knowledge adding to the 200 years of combined in-house experience to MARINTEC. The company is progressive and agile, which is as much a product of its environment as it is the combined vision of its owners and staff.

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The workshop facility boasts a comprehensive inventory of electronic

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Crimpy’s Goat Pho COOKING with CRIMPY

The Broth

Serving

2 onions, halved

500 grams rice noodles

4” knob of ginger, halved lengthwise

Cooked goat meat from the broth

1 x goat leg not boned

Raw goat fillet thinly sliced

5 Ltr water

2 limes, cut into wedges

1 cinnamon stick,

2-3 chilli peppers, sliced

1 tbl coriander seeds

1/2 cup chopped fresh mint

1 tbl fennel seeds

1/2 cup chopped fresh basil

5 whole star anise

1/2 cup chopped fresh coriander

1 tel cardamom seeds

Fresh asparagus if in season

3/4 tablespoons salt

Bean shoots

1/4 cup fish sauce

Hoisin sauce

1 Tbl sugar

Sriracha hot sauce

To prepare the broth Turn your griller on high and move rack to the highest spot. Place ginger and onions on baking sheet. Brush just a bit of cooking oil on the cut side of each. Broil on high until ginger and onions begin to char. Turn over and continue to char. This should take a total of 1015 minutes.

Parboil the goat leg. Fill large pot with cool water. Boil water, and then add the leg keeping the heat on high. Boil vigorously for 10 minutes.

Drain, rinse the goat leg and rinse out the pot.

Refill pot with 5 Ltr of cool water, add meat.

Bring to boil over high heat and lower to simmer. Using a ladle or a fine mesh strainer, remove any scum that rises to the top Place the cinnamon stick, coriander, fennel, anise, and cardamon in fine mesh cloth and tie at the top add to the broth then, add the ginger, onion, sugar, fish sauce, salt and simmer uncovered for 2 1/2 hours or until the meat is tender and falls from the bone. Remove the goat meat and set aside (you’ll be eating this meat later in the bowls) Continue simmering for another 30 minutes. Strain broth and return the broth to the pot. Taste broth and adjust seasoning - this is a crucial step. If the

Smoky Venison Burger Simple, classic and full of flavour!

INGREDIENTS FOR THE BURGER PATTIES • 1kg venison mince • 150 ml Glasseye Creek Sauce • 1 medium onion, finely chopped • 1/2 cup breadcrumbs • 1/2 teaspoon crushed garlic • Salt and freshly ground black pepper METHOD Mix all of the ingredients in a bowl. Divide into equal portions and roll into balls before flattening into burger patties. Place all on a tray, cover with gladwrap, and leave in fridge for 30 mins or so to allow the flavours to penetrate, and burgers to firm.

The rest is pretty straightforward. Bang on a barbie, or grill in a hot pan, but avoid over turning the burgers as they tend to lose the juices, which is flavour! Sear and cook one side.

Depending on how thick you have made your patties, should be a couple of minutes each side, then flip and cook the other side. Once cooked, ideally slightly rare in the middle and full of flavour from the juices of the venison and the sauce, then serve with fresh, or toasted buns and your favourite condiments eg. lettuce, onions, tomato, grilled cheese (great with brie or blue cheese), pickles, etc etc.

A wee hint. Venison goes great with fruity and sweet sauces and chutneys. So with Glasseye Creek Sauce in the meat, which will impart a sweet and smoky flavour, try using a plum, cranberry or similar fruit relish as a topping. Up to you. Obviously goes best with Glasseye Creek as the topping sauce, but no rules. A good pattie is the key, let the rest just evolve. Enjoy!

broth’s flavour doesn’t quite shine yet, add 2 teaspoons more of fish sauce, pinch of salt and a little sugar. Keep doing this until the broth tastes perfect.

Serving Cook noodles, follow the directions on your package of noodles - there are many different sizes and widths of rice noodles, so make sure you read the directions. For some fresh rice noodles, just a quick 5 second blanch in hot water is all that’s needed.

Slice your raw goat fillet as thin as possible - try freezing for 15 minutes prior to slicing to make it easier. Remember the cooked goat meat that was part of your broth? Cut or shred this meat and set aside. Arrange all other ingredients on a platter for the table. Your guests will “assemble” their own bowls.

Ladling: Bring your broth back to a boil. Line up your soup bowls next to the stove. Fill each bowl with rice noodles, shredded cooked goat meat and raw goat fillet slices. As soon as the broth comes back to a boil, ladle into each bowl. The hot broth will cook your raw goat slices.

Serve immediately. Guests can garnish their own bowls as they wish.

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New Zealand aviation pioneer Mike Alexander is a man of many talents who had extraordinary adventures, from grassroots agricultural flying, deploying cables for the South Island hydro-electric schemes, to ‘live capture of crayfish from choppers’! That’s right — skip deer — we’re talking rock lobster. Daryl Sykes looks at a fledgling Chatham Island fishery where …

Two Ton Johnson took a chopper to a cray fight!

At the invitation of Bill ‘Two Ton’ Johnson, Mike’s company Alexander Helicopters stationed a helicopter at Waitangi on the Chatham Islands, in June 1967, to trial airborne pot-setting and vessel unloading.

The operation was under the direction of Chatham Islands Packing Company, which was under the control of ‘Two Ton’ and his managers, Reg Wills and Cecil Scott.

The old Gisborne lighter Endeavour, with its large deck space, was also purchased for the trials. The craypots were baited, and laid from Endeavour, but retrieved by helicopter.

A special buoy system was developed to allow the helicopter to hook on quickly, lift the line vertically, and deposit the pot on the deck of Endeavour, from where it was emptied, re-baited, and then re laid.

The vessel size and speed of the retrieve and re-setting cycle made it possible to run 80 pots over a large area. The results quickly

The Chatham’s lobster industry grew quickly, with some 200 vessels fishing a wide area. At the peak of the boom there were seven packhouses operating and three helicopters unloading the fleet. Processors had two machines on the Chathams and a third operating at Pitt Island.

Land was purchased and a house and workshop established for the engineers to look after the helicopters. Two fishing boats – the Waiiti and Breaksea — were also deployed in the lobster fishery in conjunction with the Alexander Helicopters’ operation.

Alexander Helicopters was then catching and carrying their own fish, as well as all the other product they handled.

Ultimately, lobster bait became short so Endeavour was used to freight fish frames from Gisborne. Local paua, which was then worthless, was also used along with blue cod. All very different now of course but at

packhouses to take up the opportunity so, unfortunately, the wastage continued. What a contrast to the modern lobster fishery where the whole fish is prized by the market.

A record day was 55 tonnes of crays landed off the boats by the helicopters at a cost of $10 per 400kg basket, even if it was not full.

enabled the crew to gauge where the crayfish were plentiful and to re-set the gear on more productive grounds. The system worked too well — other fishermen quickly latched onto ‘Two Ton’s’ detection methods and bombed these more productive areas with their gear.

This resulted in mayhem and the airborne fishing system was scrapped. The helicopter then concentrated on unloading the lobster from the boats and transferring to the various fish packing houses.

the time only the lobsters had any real value.

However, not the whole lobster — all that was taken was the tail. The rest was ground up and put back into the sea. A shocking waste!

The entrepreneurial Alexander saw an opportunity and negotiated a deal with the Japanese to use the heads and claws for wedding catering. For the initial trial they required 20 tonnes of heads per week but Alexander was unable to convince the

The fishermen tried to overload the lifting baskets, which became dangerous, so pilots were told to flick the basket in the water and float the top 200 mm off. This quickly fixed the problem.

It was not uncommon for fishermen to engage a helicopter to take them from their boat deck to the pub for a bit of R’n’R. Expensive, but some were earning $80,000 per year and that was in the 60’s - a couple of

hundred bucks was nothing.

There was the odd boat (which for obvious reasons must remain nameless) that did not have any cray pots, but they seemed to do pretty well. No need to explain how.

Lots of deals were done at the pub too!

There are many stories that could be told of the Chathams era but they can never be published – even fifty years on.

By August 1970 things had slowed down

considerably. Alexanders had one helicopter left and in spite of the locals wanting the government to subsidise that, it too was withdrawn. The land and buildings along with Waiiti and Breaksea were sold. It was the end of an extraordinary and exciting era for the many who shared it.

Mike Alexander recounts many more stories in his self-published book: Beat of the Rotors

24 THE FISHING PAPER & HUNTING NEWS - AUGUST 2018

Enhancing pāua fisheries by out-planting

Storm Stanley - Chairman, Pāua Industry Council

Experienced pāua divers will be aware that some bays, which are now home to only a few sparsely distributed pāua, previously produced big pāua catches. No matter how much time passes or how well pāua populations along the rest of the coast are rebuilding, certain areas just never seem to recover.

Why is this and what can be done about it?

The problem is that in these depleted areas there are not enough mature adults to support viable spawning.

Pāua are broadcast spawners that need a critical mass of mature adults to breed successfully. Because pāua don’t move from one bay to the next and the larvae settle very close to where they were spawned, an area that is depleted becomes stuck in a never-ending cycle of poor spawning that prevents recovery. The only way to break this cycle is to transfer more pāua into the area so that a viable spawning population can be established again.

The pāua industry has developed several different techniques for enhancing pāua fisheries, which we will explore in a series of articles. In this first article we look at a technique known as ‘out-planting’.

Out-planting involves selecting brood stock (parent pāua) from the area that will be out-planted, and using them to grow juvenile pāua in land-based hatcheries. The juveniles are grown to a size that offers them the best protection from predators such as fish, starfish, and crayfish.

In New Zealand we have typically outplanted pāua when they reach 10-15mm in length, which is why the technique is sometimes referred to as reseeding.

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Although it’s hard to determine precisely, we estimate that over the first few months it is likely up to 50 percent of the out-planted juveniles are killed by predators. Four or five years later, when they reach harvestable size, only 10 to 15 percent of the original pāua will still be alive. Hatchery-reared pāua are particularly vulnerable to predation because they are not used to predators. Also, the smaller the juveniles are, the more predators can fit them in their mouths and eat them.

Whatever the reasons, out-planting in New Zealand is not achieving good survival rates, so we’re looking into how other countries have overcome this problem.

Western Australia is a good source of research about successful out-planting.

The Western Australians have a system of artificial reefs so scientists can readily survey the survivorship of juvenile pāua (abalone) and continue to monitor them as they grow to adulthood. The monitoring results show that when abalone are out-planted at 40mm, only 20 percent are eaten by predators over the first three months. This suggests that increasing the size of out-planted pāua should greatly enhance survival rates.

Another important result from the Australian programme is that once the juveniles adapt to their new surrounds their mortalities

Abundant paua are required for successful spawning are greatly reduced. After the first three months, survival and growth in the outplanted population was the same as in the wild population. By harvest time, the Western Australians can expect 50 percent survival – a lot more successful than in New Zealand. The lesson from this research is that increasing the survival rates over the first three months from out-planting is the key to success.

The challenge for us in New Zealand is to develop an economically-viable method of growing pāua to 40mm for out-planting.

This will require a two-step process, with the first step being to grow the juveniles in a land-based hatchery for six months until they are 10mm long. The second step is to transfer them to a marine farm where they

can be grown for another year to reach 40mm. While New Zealand is proficient in land-based hatchery technology, we have no marine farms producing juvenile pāua.

However, we can adapt technology from the experiences of countries like China, where the majority of abalone production is from marine farms.

Although it will take more experimentation, we have no doubt that our investment in outplanting will be worthwhile. Increasing pāua biomass up in bays that are currently not contributing to a fishery will produce more pāua to support commercial, customary, and recreational catches. With a larger biomass of mature adults, we can be confident that spawning will be successful and that pāua fisheries will continue to be sustainable.

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Deerstalkers support freedom of access

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and fishers.

All New Zealanders should have free access to publicly owned land, says a spokesman for the New Zealand Deerstalkers’ Association, Bill O’Leary.

Owing to a missed opportunity during the OIO process, public access to conservation land in the Hunter Valley remains as only by grace and favour of the managers of the Hunter Station. This should never have happened and needs to be set right.

The proposal to retrospectively provide an easement across nearly 40 kilometres of pastoral lease would be supported by many recreationalists including trampers, climbers, hunters

“However, NZDA recognises that the vehicle track would requires some upgrading and ongoing maintenance and believe this should not be a charge on the station owner. The fact that he is a foreigner is irrelevant to this case, it’s just a matter of setting the matter of free access that was intended at the start but somehow overlooked. So public money should pay for improved access, including any realignment of the track to preserve the manager’s privacy,” said Mr O’Leary.

He added that one proposal to manage an increase in vehicle traffic on the track was for the

Department of Conservation to operate a booking system. “This is common on other tracks around the country and recreationalists would put up with the minor inconvenience.”

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Mail your letters to Stick Your Oar In The Fishing Paper, PO Box 9001 - Annesbrook, 7044, NELSON email: editor@thefishingpaper.co.nz Kea slaughter An article in the Marlborough Express (5 July) by Laura Young of Kea Conservation Trust (KCT) applauded that on May 26 one young kea was sighted in Marlborough.

Laura says predators are high on the list for the kea's demise yet recently the Kea Conservation Trust, along with DoC and Wapiti Foundation, caught and tagged 43 kea in one valley in Fiordland, where significantly no 1080 had been used. Kea then obviously have survived over a 120 years of predators, including rats and stoat.

When DoC starts meddling with traps and disastrous poisons, birds are disturbed.

At one meeting of the KCTrust I attended, it was stated there were hundreds of abandoned nests. Even at primary school the rule is don't interfere with birds nests as they will abandon them. Perhaps DoC and KCT need to go back to school?

seeing The Fishing & Hunting Paper go from strength to strength over the years.

The quality presented in a complimentary newspaper is remarkable and your resourcefulness is equally remarkable.

Take a bow Crimpy!

According to my scrap book, I started writing for you 10 years ago and notched up 77 articles over that time and to be truthful, it was fun all the way – but I’ll miss it.

I wish you, and team members at The Fishing & Hunting Paper, continued growth and success long into the future.

Tight lines!

Frank Cartwright

Paper aids salmon research While The Fishing Paper & Hunting News front page headline didn’t prove prophetic on this occasion, the paper remains the favourite read of International Salmon Avoidance expert Professor Brent Collingwood of Brighton, who is the leading authority on the psychology of free-range unhooked wild salmon.

Prof. Bright is pictured

reading a copy of the paper during a long period spent not hooking salmon on the Columbia River, Wells Dam, Wenatchee, in the United States.

Professor Collingwood, who pioneered the ‘should have been here yesterday’ technique for not catching salmon was testing his theory that anglers who travel huge distances to be avoided by salmon actually contribute to the health of

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wild fish stocks.

It has long been thought that salmon not caught by tourists actually live longer than those that are caught and eaten, but just why they avoid some anglers and not others is largely misunderstood. Professor Collingwood has no definitive answers to the dilemma but thoroughly enjoys reading The Fishing Paper & Hunting News in weird locations!

DoC will use anything as a scapegoat to deny 1080 is a lethal poison on kea.

DoC has even blamed lead head nails and wheel weights off cars as poisoning kea. Yet recently around 3,000 tahr were killed by DoC using lead buckshot in kea habitat. That would equate to two hundred odd kilograms of lead. The empty plastic cartridges and and plastic wads are also a hazard to inquisitive kea.

Having spent 50-plus years in the hills and bush, I've noticed a rapid decline in kea numbers since 1987 when the DoC bureaucracy was born and 1080 poison became the department’s obsession.

L Hore Oamaru Frank bows out Dear Ed, I have retired from writing.

Advancing years and declining health are the main reasons but being unable to fish over the past two years has meant that retirement was probably overdue!

I have enjoyed writing for you and

Ed replies: Thank you Frank for the kind words but I fear it is writers like you who make me look good; what a privilege it has been to have you as an integral part of our team. There are writers and then there are WRITERS and Frank you possess that tiny undefinable essence that separates the good from the greats. You are an editor’s dream.

All scribes have a shelf life and what a tremendous accolade and testimony to your skill and professionalism that you sign off on your own terms, rather than becoming obsolete to changing tastes and new trends.

Enjoy your retirement and your lovely wife.

We will genuinely miss your input but thanks for being a valuable part of our journey.

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Clint Eastwood hunts Kaikoura I had scheduled a trip down the West Coast to some of my favourite chamois country in the hope of securing a trophy animal, a personal goal for 2019.

They say the weather is made on The Coast and this weekend was to prove no exception, with what was perhaps the worst forecast I had ever laid eyes on.

I searched in vain for a positive reason to make this trip, staring at the weather map as I would a bleak

mountain face for hours, willing an animal to appear.

I couldn’t. It didn’t. The aberration of a trophy buck on a West Coast slip in this kind of weather eluded even my optimistic nature. It was time for a re-think. A quick couple of phone calls and I determined that the east coast was the only option; not even the Top of South was going to avoid this weather bomb!

After a seemingly neverending drive we made it to

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Kaikoura and my faithful and, quite frankly, naive hunting mate followed me into the unknown — up a previously never hunted valley. The anticipation was real even if my local knowledge wasn’t. As we picked our way up the cold river bed, icicles warned me that the sun was not a frequent visitor of this valley floor. We trudged further and further up the valley and I caught myself thinking how lucky it was that we could do this. The level of freedom individuals have in New Zealand to pursue outdoor adventure is truly something special. Pure freedom.

My thoughts were rudely interrupted by a very deerlike bush in a very odd place. I quickly recognised

time, enjoying reliving the hunt and remarking at how the day had panned out when a rock tumbled behind us. We turned in unison to find two chamois bucks in a standoff — something Clint Eastwood would be proud of. The bucks moved first,

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it was a red stag feeding on the edge of a slip – leaning out to pluck some tasty morsels from where no other deer dared venture. I wasted no time in getting my new hunting mate in position and, with the precision of a well-trained sniper, he sent the stag into a 30m free fall.

To say he was relieved with the quick kill is one thing but I suspect the lack of need to climb vertically was the real cause of his relief.

After dragging the stag to the river bed, we hoisted it into a beech tree and began skinning and breaking it down. We were taking our

bolting back up the slip but I was fast too, with the 7mm stopping the buck clad in a beautiful dark pelt. I handed the rifle to my shell-shocked mate, but he missed the first shot. Not hard when his heart was pounding so far out of his chest he couldn’t keep the gun steady.

I calmed him down and he made the third shot count.

Two bucks and a deer - all in an afternoon on public land… you wouldn’t read about it!

(Ed replies: Dickhead — they just have!)

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HUNTING INSIGHT Long range shooting continues to grow in popularity and this includes hunters taking much longer shots in the field. Probably, more so, steel gong shooting has seen a real increase in participation, which is great for the sport as it is a great way to learn the many aspects of long-range shooting, that you can then apply to hunting.

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hit or a miss. Once you have confirmed your rifle’s scope elevation adjustments are true to your ballistic data, the trickiest aspect to master is reading the wind accurately and this is no easy accomplishment. Even seasoned shooters often make wrong wind calls causing a miss, which can be corrected for the next shot if the bullet splash is seen by

Learning your limits taking into account your experience, the distance, and weather conditions — especially your wind reading skills. Steel gongs don’t move but an animal can take one step during the flight time of the bullet, turning a clean kill shot into a gut shot, and no hunter wants to wound an animal.

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I had been on short hunting trips from about the age of four but never had the opportunity to shoot a deer until this trip.

We spent the rest of the trip in this area where we camped in the open, saw plenty of deer and shot just what we needed.

On returning to school, I learnt there was to be another army cadet practice parade, which was being put on for some visiting army bigwig. I had taken part in the original one but missed the second while I was away hunting. The one scheduled for the next day was to be the final practice. I started out alright but suddenly all the new moves they had

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The teacher in charge of cadets, Ian ‘Inky’ MacLellan, a Second World War Air Force officer, called a stop to proceedings, called me out, and asked me what was going on. I explained that I’d missed the last practice and knew nothing of the changes to the drill.

“Where were you?” Inky barked.

“Out Karamea way on a hunting trip,” I stated simply.

He just looked at me and said, “Bugger off over there and tell me about it later.”

I went and sat down, watched proceedings, and gave ‘Inky’ the story of the trip afterwards. I also sat out the main parade a week later.

‘Inky’ MacLellan was also one of my teachers and was always in charge of his classes even though he never raised his voice.

‘Inky’ was also a top-line trout fisherman and a world renowned authority on the stonefly. He fished McKenna’s Creek, which ran along the back boundary of our farm, and we always knew when he was arriving to commence his evening’s fishing; his Morris 1000, a flash car those days, could be heard burbling along Kew Road. That exhaust burble was the hallmark sound of the ‘Morrie Thou’.’

I was in class with ‘Inky’ the day after one of his nocturnal visits to the creek and realised he was rather

toey. Towards the end of the period, he started to get into some of the other students about the standard of their work, which wasn’t the norm from him. As he moved towards me, I decided I had to short circuit this behaviour. When he leaned over to check my work I said to him, “I saw you were fishing the creek last night sir, did you catch anything?”

An immediate grin split his face and he recounted how he had caught a couple of good fish that had given him a lot of fun.

It was then I realised I was no longer his student and he was no longer my teacher, we were equals. We were two like-minded people who had one thing in common fishing. The strangest thing about that incident was, the classroom suddenly had a different mood to it, and our teacher had a smile on his face and spring in his step.

My classmates were looking around with questioning looks but there was no point in telling them what had gone on ... most of them were nerds, even though that word hadn’t been invented then.

I was lucky I had a teacher like ‘Inky’ and several uncles like Jim. Outdoor recreation classes weren’t part of the school curriculum those days, so my teachers were the people around me who hunted, fished, and loved the great outdoors.

I have learnt a lot from fleeting acquaintances with like-minded people.

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