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One of the major advances in GPS over recent years has been the introduction of high sensitivity internal GPS antennas. Internal antennas have been around for many years but traditionally they could only be used on open boats as the antennas themselves were not very sensitive. Around four-years-ago manufacturers started putting in high speed internal antennas, which can pick up much weaker satellite signals. Traditional GPS antennas integrate the signal for 1ms whereas the high sensitivity ones integrate them for 1000 times longer, in theory meaning it can pick up a signal 1000 times weaker.

This means that with most installations now, we can get away with not using external antennas, cutting down on the cost of the unit and also installation time. I have installed units with internal antennas in the galleys of yachts and in many hard tops, without the need for an external antenna; I have even had a fix on some units in the middle of my showroom. However, there have also been occasions where we have had to install external antennas on some boats, especially hard tops that are being flush mounted in the dash. If you are looking at a GPS with an internal antenna and are not sure if you need the external one or not, drive your boat to your local dealer and they can put the GPS in the rough position and test it for you.

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There have been many advances in technology over the years that have given the recreational fisherman an extra edge, but surely GPS has to rank up there as one of the top ones in recent years.

A GPS, when used correctly, can save you time and fuel and also give you a known safe route in and out of a harbour by putting down and saving a track when you leave/enter.

You can now mark the spot where you caught your trophy fish and just head straight back to it the next time, or if you have a generous mate, he can give you the coordinates of his favourite spot that works and you can go straight to it. You can use it to set a drift when fishing a pinnacle for example, and, in the interests of safety, if you have a chart plotter it can tell you where you are at night or when the weather closes in.

This brings me to one thing people often get confused about and that is the difference between GPS and a chart plotter. Essentially they are the same thing and can both give you position, speed, course bearing etcetera, and allow you to add waypoints. The difference between them is a standard GPS does it on a white background and chart plotter overlays all this information over a nautical chart so you can see where you are. These charts are becoming increasingly sophisticated and can show you tides and currents for your local areas. There are many units now that have or will soon have the ability to give you a bathymetric chart of the seafloor allowing you to see rocks, holes and deep water channels very easily.

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Shon and I hit the X Spot in the Kenepuru Sound late evening and deployed the berley. We each rigged a couple of straylines with 8/0 hooks; one fixed and a slider – same size. Attached above the hooks is a tiny ball sinker – just enough to get the bait down – size depends on tide flow – start with quarter ounce. Strayline bait – whole pilchard.

I was testing some Black Magic flasher rigs for Crimpy, so had one of the big 9/0 Snapper Snatchers hanging under the boat, baited with fresh kahawai and mackerel.

We had a few quiets, chewed the fat, moaned about women and de-stressed. About 11pm Shon hooked and landed a nice eight-pound snapper.

We seldom catch pannies up here and never at night. If you hook in, it’s likely to be eight-pound or bigger. We fish the same general area but mix it up a bit, trying to keep away from the mud and get over a bit of foul.

We chilled out a bit more, listened to some music and went to bed about two – together but NOT together!

I was awoken at three by a poke in the ribs from Shon’s elbow as he got up to deal to a screaming reel. It was attached to my rod, so he politely handed it over. It was a nuggety fighter, a real scrapper and didn’t like the boat. It had taken the flasher rig, so was firmly hooked on good gear, which meant I had no qualms about dealing to it. Seven minutes later a chunky snapper nudging twenty-pounds hit the deck.

When fishing the Kenepuru over night, expect to wade through rubbish like sevengillers, dogfish and stingrays. Fish in the dark and only use your headlamp if absolutely necessary. Big snapper get spooked by the light, so we try and fish by the moon and stars. Have your drag set on the light side and if the fish wants to run, let it. Each fish plays differently, so there are no hard and fast rules. Keep a bend in the rod at all times and don’t be in a rush to get the fish to the boat. Have someone on hand to net the fish, without the use of a light if possible.

There is no telling when a big moocher will bite, so patience is required, but it’s well worth the effort.

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Sparksy’s First Kingies!

By Wayne Costar

Goldilocks and the Teeth Bares

Tony Sparks decided a day off the bobcat was called for, so we went chasing kingies. Although a bit of a slow day on the hookups, he finally hooked and landed his first kingy (oh how I wish I’d a video camera to catch these first moments). Fortunately it was over the legal mark so it came home.

Having got the bug, a few days later he decided another day off was called for so we went out searching again.

They finally seem to be getting over the lure shyness that the ‘loopy season’ gave them. Why is everyone targeting the poor sods this year? Anyway after a couple of missed takes the tide started to run and we began to see a few.

I hooked up but lost a real scrapper on the last run at the boat. Sod it, but good luck to the fish!

Then Sparksy hooked up. Another priceless face as he realised he was connected to something that had been eating steroids. After a wicked battle he landed a 21lb beauty.

After harassing a rather large log for a while until it had had enough of us I carried on casting but was running out of time when another log appeared by a buoy and a cast over it’s back got the right reaction. This one bolted across the lines but a bit of speedy boat work found it still on, out in the open. Whew!

After a bit of work a scrappy 22lber came to the net. Don’t you love it when a plan comes together!

By Phil Osmond

My wife, daughter Eva and I shot out early one morning in March for a day’s fishing in Tasman Bay - heading straight out to albacore tuna country for a look.

After catching a couple of large kahawai over the course of an hour, the girls lost interest so we shot up the bay towards Separation Point to drop the set lines and have a fish. We set two setlines about two K out and cruised into the point for calmer waters and a fish, cleaning up on tarakihi, snapper and blue cod and a couple of gurnard.

About an hour later we cruised back out to the setlines. The first setline was thick with school sharks ranging from 2kg to 6kg plus, of which, all went back in alive. All hooks were loaded or gone completely, with a nice little four-hook, fish and line tangle at the end.

We then proceeded to look for setline number two. We eventually found 1 buoy about 500m from the original set spot but no

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sign of the second one. Thinking it had been pulled under, we started hauling. First fish up was a large blue cod completely minus its body. Unfortunately we didn’t take a photo but the head left on the hook had been separated from the body with one bite! Next up were a few snapper, 1 rig and school sharks again.

There were also a few hooks missing. We realised as the line was getting lighter that the other half of the setline was missing.

Eventually we found the other buoy 200m away, full of School sharks and the odd snapper, as well as the head of one snapper as per pictured. The backbone of the setline had been bitten in half but what is a mystery!

Judging by the number of missing hooks and bitten fish, there had been a reasonable set of teeth down there somewhere - dining out for free!

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TOTALLY BOATING’S TOP TIPS This month: How to Prepare Your Boat for Winter The boating season is winding down in many parts of the country, so it is time to start thinking about protecting your valuable recreational asset during winter. Here’s a handy list of things to consider before storing your boat: 1.

Remove squabs and lifejackets to dry storage. Wash them in fresh water before being stored, as salt deposits will stop them drying out fully and cause mould and mildew to form.

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Take gadgets and fishing tackle indoors. Electronic gadgets like GPS and Fishfinders will fare much better over winter if stored somewhere warm and dry.

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Salt accelerates rust and corrosion, and attracts water, so give your boat a thorough clean with fresh water, and a specialized marine cleaner like Salt-Away. Remember to check the bungs are out, seacocks are open and drains are clear so water won’t pool inside the boat over winter.

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Make sure bilge pumps work. Clean out any ‘gunk’ from strainers and float switches if fitted, and your batteries can keep up.

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Keep your batteries charged - they will lose charge gradually, even when not in use, which will reduce battery lifespan significantly.

Turn off your main battery switch to prevent drain-down, or remove batteries from your boat completely.

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Remove rust. A quick scrub with a Scotch-brite or a wire brush should remove surface rust. While you’re checking for rust, have a look for any loose fittings and pick up any stray bits of metal and tackle as well, particularly on alloy boats, to help prevent rust stains and corrosion caused by dissimilar metals.

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Check electrical connections for corrosion, replace corroded ones, and cover all connections with a corrosion inhibitor (like CRC) to prevent further damage.

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Cover it up. A good boat cover will help protect your boat from the weather over winter.

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Prepare your outboard for winter. If you won’t be using your outboard for more than a couple of months, you’ll need to prepare it for storage using the long term storage or ‘Winterisation’ procedure. To find out more about winterisation and what’s involved contact the team at Totally Boating.

10. Get your annual servicing done. This job is best left to a fully trained technician, as they have the skills and experience to detect things like water in the gearbox, which, if left, will damage or even write off your gearbox. Imagine missing out on the first weeks of the new season because your motor is playing up and needs work done.

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Otago Harbour

Salmon Competition

By Brett Bensemann

Last year the salmon numbers caught were an all time high – but this year the angler numbers were up ( 220 entries ) and the salmon numbers were disappointing. REASON: Warm seas this Year!

High salmon numbers have been caught in Dunedin City Harbour since September 2012 to January 2013 and great weights up to 25-pounds plus. Yep, just as the Otago Anglers

Association put all their hard work together in holding this competition – the ‘warm’ elements ruled’.

This Year’s winners were (all Wharf fishers): 1st John Jamieson with a 6kg salmon, 2nd Tristan Woodford 4.26kg, 3rd Wan Soo Bae 2.12kg.

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Dad woke me up about 6.00am and we set off down to the Wairau River in Marlborough, walking about 25 minutes to our secret spot.

Dad pointed to the water and said, “Cast about 15ft away.”

So I did and sooner or later my lure got smashed by the trout. I brought her to shore in about 13 minutes and two more casts later I hooked the salmon. By the way I was using 5lbs line to catch those fish.

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Marine ‘No Take’ Reserves Need Reality Check

By Karin Kos The demands for the creation of more no fishing marine reserves in New Zealand’s maritime zone are coming from many quarters.

University of York marine biologist, Callum Roberts, told Kathryn Ryan on Radio New Zealand’s Nine to Noon programme that the entire New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone should be a marine reserve, since he believes that it is impossible to fish deep water at all and still preserve the seabed ecology.

Jay Harkness, of Forest and Bird, wrote in the Dominion Post that there should be marine reserves over a third of the New Zealand EEZ. More modest still, was the call from the Executive Director of the WWF New Zealand, Chris Howe, for a marine reserve for the all waters within 200 nautical miles of the Kermadecs. These Islands, which lie about midway between the North Island and Tonga, already have 745,000 ha of marine reserve around them.

But the clamour for a one size fits all protection of fish stocks and environment is a bit like setting fire to your house any time you are cold. It’s not very targeted to the outcome of getting warm.

First of all, assertions that fish stocks are depleted, on which many of the demands are made, are largely myth. Take our largest fishery, hoki, it’s thriving. Orange-roughy stocks have also been increasing and in the major Campbell Island southern blue whiting fishery, numbers are at an historic high. Indeed, there will be fluctuations in fisheries stock abundance over seasons and in some places. That’s the natural order of fisheries, as much as it is for the land-based world. New Zealand’s fisheries management system is proving itself to be responsive and capable of adjusting catch limits to take account of abundance fluctuations.

protection over 19 seamounts. These measures address many of the concerns of those who want marine protection reserves. Primarily, they were designed to protect, with full force of law, the deepwater benthic habitats and species within them, including fragile corals and sponges which may take a long time to regenerate.

Inside New Zealand’s Territorial Sea there are more than 30 no-take marine protected areas. In mid-April this year, another marine reserve was announced – a 450 ha reserve off Akaroa. Marine reserves have a legally defined role in protecting particular areas for scientific research, either for the unique or fragile nature of the ecosystem, or because they are where fish or other marine species breed. They are targeted and have usually achieved a greater biodiversity within and immediately beyond where they are because of their special nature.

It’s official, we always knew The Fishing Paper & New Zealand Hunting News was a classy read, but now it has been recognised for its prestige. Judith Russ of Nelson was aghast when she saw the paper sharing the spotlight with the official bell of the Queen Mary, which is moored at Long Beach, California.

The majestic ocean liner plied the Trans-Atlantic route from 1936 – 67, but now is set up as a permanent tourist attraction, featuring a museum, restaurant and hotel. Judith told The Fishing Paper that the bell is rung every day to announce dinnertime, but she was unsure as to the significance of The Fishing Paper & New Zealand Hunting News.

We contacted Queen Mary’s owners for an answer and were ultimately referred to maître d’ of the restaurant, Mr Steve Terry. Steve told us that the Queen Mary’s restaurant was catered by a New Zealand company, Pieman Enterprises Ltd, hence the Kiwi connection with The Fishing Paper & New Zealand Hunting News.

He said the fish served on board the Queen Mary comes from New Zealand and The Fishing

Secondly, there are many forms of protection for fish species and the marine environment already. The Quota Management System, the huge area of the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone in which there are 17 Benthic Protection Areas already and the same

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But there are also marine parks and the marine mammal sanctuaries with different rules. There are targeted fishing restrictions to protect, for instance, Maui’s and Hector’s dolphins. As well there are a host of acts and regulations about when and how to catch various species of fish, how big or small they are allowed to be, who you report your catch to, and who or what is monitoring you. And then there are numerous areas where fishing is restricted or prevented for a wide variety of purposes that may have little to do with marine conservation, such as protection of telecommunication cables or defence areas. These have the unintended effect of creating marine refuges.

Though some fishing rules and different forms of spatial closures are dated, overextended or just not sensible, our overall approach means future generations can continue to enjoy our great New Zealand kai moana.

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Anthony Sizzles Summer Ray

By Sabrina Abdelaal Selim

Anthony Westerlund got more than he bargained for whilst spinning for kahawai at the mouth of the Waimak’ this summer. He initially thought he had hooked on to a log or something, as it was so heavy. A torrid battle ensued and Anthony was tested, ending up at least a hundred metres down the beach from where he started - in chest deep water. He could see the bottom of his spool. The huge ray took him about 1520 minutes to land and must have weighed close to 100kg, although we really have no idea. He landed it on 12lb line, 4-8kg rod and released it without harm.

He was knackered after the fight! Two men were watching the action and couldn’t believe how big the ray was.

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From Sinker to Smoker

By Ron Prestage

Interview with Surfcaster Gerry Brown

Gerry enjoys surfcasting and putting a feed of fresh snapper on the family dinner table.

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

Gerry: As a small lad camping at Kaiteriteri with family and going fishing on a family friend’s boat. We didn’t go far up the coast and would return and line up our catches of snapper in the campground for everyone to see.

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

Gerry: School years was catching spotties off the rocks. I left home to work close to the Bay of Plenty. As I didn’t have a boat, I fished from the rocks at river mouths and would put out a long line from off the beach with the help of a mate and his skiff. If there was a good wind offshore, I used a large plastic bag like a sausage filled with air to take the long line out. A charter to White Island was a memorable trip. Moving to Nelson sees me surfcasting locally or fishing in the Sounds with mates as the opportunities arise both on and offshore. I do try and get out on a charter each year from Nelson, Havelock, Picton or Kaikoura.

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

Gerry: Enjoy a game of golf.

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

Gerry: Not bad and improving. Over about the last five-years, on most surfcasting trips, I have come home with a feed.

TFP: What is your favoured rig for surfcasting?

Gerry: A simple running sinker using a 4/0 or 5/0 recurved circle hook.

TFP: What baits do you mainly use for surfcasting?

Gerry: Just squid. Stays on the hook and usually survives the paddle crabs.

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Young Karl Newton has a tale to tell about flying fish!

Fancy, A Flying Fish!

By Brent Newton

We had had a quiet day fishing and had just finished putting away the rods and were getting ready to head back in. My wife, Dee, pulled up the berley pot at the bow and passed it to me down the side. I pulled it in, turned, started the motor; my wife gave me the all clear as she untied us from the mussel farm. I put the boat in reverse and - thump, bang - we thought we had hit something!

We turned towards the back of the boat and here surging, bouncing and flapping about is a large kingfish! We were in complete shock but had to get the fish under control and get out of the mussel farm. I told my wife to grab anything to try and subdue it and while she sorted this I manoeuvered the boat out of the farm. I grabbed the chilly bin lid and we threw it on top of the fish, with both of us on top of it. The power of the fish was incredible. Our kids were up the front of the boat still in shock, as were we. It took us 10 minutes to get it under control and bled. We still could not believe what had happened.

There was a family a few hundred metres away and we are sure they heard us. We both said to each other, “What’s the bet no one believes us?”

I mean, who has a fish literally jump into their boat without any hooks or lines! We got back to camp and showed the camp owners Pic & Pauline, who couldn’t believe it either. Pic checked it all over for hook marks (none) and weighed it for us - 27lb. It has given us a name for our boat ‘Flying Kingi’ and a story for our kids to pass on to their grandkids!

(Eds note: Kingfish love structure because it shelters baitfish, but they also love scratching their backs against mussel buoys, boat hulls and wharf piles etcetera. While I have not heard of one caught by a prop before, they are often lurking there without you being aware.)

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Stick Your Oar In Dear Ed I have never missed an edition of your paper and love the great reads that come out of it.

In recent times I have also enjoyed the addition of the hunting section. As you can imagine, there are not too many stories I have missed over the years, so I wish to make a complaint about a recent profile on one David Hix from Roofline.

I know this is not really the editor’s fault, as the onus is put

back on the person writing their own profile. Those of us who read the paper front to back will remember when David had a profile when working at HR Engineering - which was, coincidently, exactly the same as the last one completed for roofline!

In my mind David needs to sharpen up and add some new contents! After all, it’s not like Kim Swan or Peter Harker tell the same story every time Thanks Paul Clarkson Stockton

Beam me up spotty

My mate ‘Murphy’ has been calling around a lot of late; him and I are now best buddies.

I decided a while back to get back into writing books, something I love to do. So the pen came out of mothballs and the scribe in me set to work.

Publisher lined up, deadline dates set, Christmas release planned, I set to work on my hunting book and then ‘Murphy’ turned up.

Interruption followed interruption, followed interruption.

Stress levels

David did submit an updated profile. I just had to edit out the parts about his working undercover for the Whitebait Police, his advocacy work for Safety Advisors who Drink Seriously And Cite Shite (SADSACS) and the bits he lied about his age!

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I finally finished the manuscript and got it off to the publisher on a Friday, two months after deadline. On the Sunday night ‘Murphy’ had a word with ‘Huey’ and it rained over Stoke, on top of The Fishing Paper, and the rain begat a great flood. Mighty surges of water seriously inconvenienced a heap of people, including the editor of The Fishing Paper & New Zealand Hunting News, whose desk floated like a boat!

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Fiordland (Part 2)

By Ian Hadland

The highly defined wapiti trails surprised us both, especially their economic manner of getting from one place to another. Sidle tracks are easily followed along the rivers edge and if they do climb away from the edge, it is usually for a reason, like an impassable bluffy face. A few single roars were heard on the way, but we could not get anything worked up enough to determine their position.

When the fog finally lifted we were rewarded with a view of the steep tops, but saw nothing through the binos.

We decided to camp near the headwaters, split up, gain height and glass some country. Johnny headed towards the main basin, while I climbed a very steep gut directly behind camp. Part way up, the steep creek looked to narrow and end in a vertical wall of bluffs, but a single set of deer tracks continued up the creek, so I pressed on. After oneand-a-half hours, I was through the narrow slot and could see a patch of open tussock above.

The creamy body of a wapiti hind stood out on the steep face and our eyes locked. I froze then backed off quietly. She resumed feeding. Ditching my backpack, I crawled up a hebe covered spur adjacent to the dry creek.

I poked my head up and could see two hinds feeding on the face, but no bull. The wind was favourable so I watched them for a while, when a third hind appeared from nowhere - with a stag in hot pursuit. He mounted the hind then stopped and let out a roar - a full red deer roar.

Again, I couldn’t believe what was unfolding! I could make

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I raised the rifle and looked up the steep face through the scope.

The sun, which was slightly above the spur, was nearly in direct line with the stag and produced a glary white light in the scope, rendering it useless.

A stray cloud eventually passed over the sun and I could make out three good tops on one side and heavy timber, so decided I’d take him if the opportunity arose. The stag wheeled around and bedded down with only the tips of his antlers showing.

This provided me with a good option, to stay put and wait until the sun dropped behind the spur.

When I next consulted my watch, I had been waiting for 35minutes with my now watering eyes fixed on the antler tips through the scope.

The sun had slipped below the ridge so with the rifle all set to go, I cupped a hand and let out a low moan. The stag leapt to his feet, roared defiantly and glared down the tussock face. He reached around and thrashed a small shrub with his antlers and stepped out into full view - broadside. His next roar was cut short by a 7mm08 round to the shoulder, causing him to roll 50m down the face towards me. He was struggling to find his feet and stopped on the lip of a steep rock chute that I really didn’t want him to go into. I fired a second shot and with a mighty heave, the stag threw himself over the edge.

The sound of antlers scraping

and rattling their way down the bedrock chute had me wincing.

I looked over the edge into the rocky gut and there lay my prize – a heavy 13 pointer.

It was massive and a serious upgrade on the head shot that morning, even with a couple of its tine tips smashed off. I had completed the most rewarding hunting day ever with two lovely stags in the bag. By now I was convinced that the place was alive with trophy stags and Johnny would have no trouble in getting one as well. How wrong this assumption turned out to be.

Despite climbing high and visiting various headwaters, only one other bull was seen and then the weather broke; it was time to get back to the lakeside camp and some decent food. Spurred on by the photos of early Fiordland hunters carrying out 50-inch heads, I persevered with the 13 pointer, although I did threaten to throw the cumbersome rack into the scrub more than once! Johnny and I were both drained by the time we hit the lake shore and staggered into camp.

The second week of the trip proved to be miserable, weather wise, with only one hunting day possible for no reward. I used the time to retrieve the second head and generally lay about camp with a large smirk and admiring my new trophies. I couldn’t have cared less about that last week of rain, hail and snow, as my trip had met all expectations in the first 48 hours of the fortnight!

One Unlucky Deer

By Matt Rouse

We drove down to Murchison in the arvo, arrived down at the Lakes and set off up the hill. Three hours later we were getting towards the tops, but darkness was closing in so we set up a fly camp, had a feed and headed to bed.

We started for the tops nice and early, but just before we made it, we scoped out the area in the distance. A nice young

stag was feeding along a spur, so my brother walked down the hill a bit and settled in for a shot. He lined up the rifle and let rip, but missed. However, the shot spooked a young yearling down in a little gut and the deer ran towards me, but my brother couldn’t see it.

It stopped when I whistled from where I was lying in the tussock and next minute

my brother piped up again, spooking the deer a second time. He took a shot as it

was fleeing and knocked it over. It was a nice treat, so we cut it up, chucked it in my bag and headed to pack up camp.

I was relieved because it was my

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Mountain Californian Fitness Covey Camps

By Paul Clark

Thirty years ago I was camped in Tussock Hut when a good friend, Gary, arrived with his cousin who was a very successful marathon runner. They were heading down to Harkness Hut, so I suggested the cousin might like to head up the track behind the hut and knobble a deer from the tops. He was fit as buggery and the tops were only 600-metres above, although the track was a bit of a gut buster. There was plenty of time to get up and back before dark. For a guy who could run all day and compete in marathons, I would have thought that it would have been a doddle.

I caught up with them sometime later and was surprised to learn that he hadn’t actually made it and that he’d run out of daylight.

“Those hills were bloody steep,” he explained, “ and it was just plain hard yakker.”

It got me to thinking, because it can’t have been just an issue of fitness; this was Marathon Man for goodness sake.

Over the years my initial post mortem of that incident has been born out by subsequent examples and it did come down to fitness – both physical and mental. While he was fit for running marathons, his muscles weren’t trained for steep hill work, so he wasn’t physically fit for the situation he’d found himself in.

Also, he was in unfamiliar and foreign territory, which likely played havoc with his state of mind. If you don’t know what is around the next corner, how long it should take you to get to a certain point and don’t know where you are in relation to a given point or location, say the hut, the stress it creates can be exhausting. Imagine being suddenly implanted in a new environment such as the mountains of Mars and being expected to perform to the same level as you would in your natural environment. The not knowing of what to expect, the wondering of what was over the next rock and the general lake of parameters to operate by, would be hugely taxing. Hence, you need to be mentally fit for the environment you choose to put yourself in.

The two go hand in hand to a degree. As has been demonstrated with the above story, if you are not mentally fit, you cannot be a hundred percent physically fit. It also applies today to hunters who go into the mountains and may find themselves ill prepared due to a lack of physical fitness, mental fitness or both. I know that I have to work a lot harder now that I’m older just to maintain the fitness level required to hunt at a moderate skill level and I was a mountain climber for years.

The reality of maintaining mountain fitness is that it takes a lot of hard work and effort. The upshot of attaining mountain fitness, which is a high level of physical fitness matched to a high degree of mental fitness, is that you will be able to hunt harder and longer and it is often that extra hour that produces the animals. Being in tune with, and comfortable in your environment will also help keep you safer, as mountain fit hunters are less prone to making the wrong decision, taking uncalculated risk and less likely to put lives at risk with foolish thinking.

Close

By Ron Eddy

Most people on seeing a Californian quail would rate them as flighty and rather secretive individuals, because you usually see them in a riverbed or on the side of the road and they move quickly into cover if disturbed. Where we live, they have become part of our lives for most of the year and in the ten years we have been here, they have progressed from the flighty bird you occasionally saw crossing the lawn, to a bird that has accepted us as much as we have accepted them. A couple of years or so back I had shot a rabbit on the lawn with my .410 shotgun and as I walked up to retrieve it, a male quail wandered past me as if nothing had happened.

This last breeding season we were accepted to the point, that a breeding pair set up their nest at the base of a coarse tussocky garden plant just five metres from our house. Early in the season I was gardening there and not knowing this, was rather surprised when the female exploded into the air at my feet. I realised why she was there, so didn’t touch anything and we avoided that particular area until after the twelve young ones were hatched.

After hatching, the family disappeared for a couple of weeks or so, but then returned and our place became one of the feed areas they used in the general area around us. By that time there were ten young ones

left and over following weeks, there was further gradual reduction until there were just six left, but by that time they were nearly fully grown and looking out for themselves very well. Mum had taken a backseat and followed on behind.

The most interesting part was when they were still quite small, their wing feathers had developed to the point where, if they were suddenly frightened, they had the ability to fly up and into the nearest cover very quickly. I feel the long, hot, dry summer had a bit to do with the demise of the young ones, but I guess a 50% survival rate was a good result considering the number of predators that prey on these birds.

They had their favourite spots to rest up in, with the house and sleep-out veranda’s being favoured; to get a bit of warmth in the early morning after moving out of their night cover. We now look forward to see if there is a repeat of this enjoyable interlude next season.

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DUCK HUNTERS TOLD TO ‘LAY OFF THE BOOZE’

By Nicole McKee, Firearms & Hunter Safety Programme Manager, Mountain Safety Council

Duck hunting season opens on Saturday 4 May with more than forty thousand passionate duck hunters expected to head off to their maimais to enjoy this highlight of the hunting calendar. The season can run up to three months, depending on the region, and for the majority of participants it’s a good opportunity to bag a few of the 4.5 million mallards that populate New Zealand’s ponds and wetlands.

However, each year the careless use of shotguns and risky behaviour potentially leads to non-intentional firearms incidents.

Injuries can be minor but tragically there have been a number of fatal incidents in recent years. ‘The message is that ALL incidents can be avoided if duck hunters maintain responsible shooting behaviour and follow the seven basic and common sense rules of the Firearms Safety Code.

Here are the key points to remember: Avoid alcohol and drugs Duck hunting is often a social event and family tradition enjoyed by generation after generation. It’s fine to have a drink or two when all the guns are safely stored away, but those hunters who choose to imbibe alcohol or drugs prior to or during shooting, put themselves and others at risk.

Not only is mixing alcohol and firearms extremely unsafe, it is also illegal and in breach of rule seven of the Firearms Safety Code.

It is also myth that a tot of rum or brandy will keep you warm on a frosty morning. In fact, alcohol decreases body temperature and increases the risk of hypothermia.

Take heed of warning labels on any

medication whether prescribed or over the counter as some products can make you drowsy or slow your mental and physical reactions.

Maintain a safe muzzle direction

Many shotgun injuries are caused by a carelessness and complacency. Maintaining a safe muzzle direction is especially critical when using the safety catch with a semiautomatic shotgun.

Remember safety catches are mechanical devices and can malfunction so whether it’s loaded or unloaded (or safety catch on or not), never ever point a firearm at you or anyone else.

Make sure you have the safety catch checked by a qualified gunsmith prior to the season opening.

Unload your shotgun when not in use

Unload shotguns completely before leaving the hunting area. Injuries and deaths have occurred when firearms have discharged accidentally whilst being transported in a vehicle, during cleaning or when shooters move from one hunting area to another.

At the end of the day make sure those in your hunting party lay off the booze, moderate the social activity and follow the Firearms Safety Code to ensure you have a safe and enjoyable season.

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Game On

By Darryn Palmer

Young Motueka hunter Liam Hobbs can’t wait for the duck season to roll round every year.

The ten-year-old has been shooting for the past few years and his successes are increasing every season.

His dad Justin, says there was a lot of frustration for the youngster in the first years, as the birds seemed to be a bit too quick for him, but now he has his eye in he’s putting his Rossi 410 to great use.

The pair shoot at a pond near Motueka and like to get out as often as possible during the duck season. Sister Shannen

likes to join the boys on opening weekend, making the shooting trips a real family affair.

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A Royal Dust Up

By Dave McDonald

“Wake up,” Steve snapped, “It’s getting Light!”

“Oh No,” I thought, “I was just getting to sleep”, It was a long, rough, cold and windy night, perched high on the ridge top in the pines. I forced myself out of the warm bag and quickly threw on my Swanny and boots. The wind was bad and already blowing straight towards our hunting area. Steve said he would cut right and down, to avoid too much scent getting to the native. I cut extreme right, up onto the open tops, staying away from the bush I intended to hunt.

After ten minutes I paused and faced the native, giving a loud roar and letting the wind carry the sound down into the valley, to see if there was a reply. Instantly a stag roared behind me. I could not believe it, so I roared again - he replied and I was able to pinpoint him just over an open ridge to my left. I found cover, as it sounded close and was just about to roar again when his antlers appeared on the skyline. I snapped up the .270 and saw that he was big and coming my way.

I zoomed him up and noticed that he was a 10 pointer, 300 yards or more away and closing. I took a rest and as he stopped to roar again, I saw that he was a magnificent beast, but was about to disappear into the gully between us. I quickly settled the cross onto his chest and fired. At this, a great cloud of dust exploded off him and he shuddered, but advanced quickly toward me.

With him almost out of sight in the very low light, I lined him up again. Taking extra care this time and realizing the importance of a good hit, I touched off another again and sent the 130 grain on its mission. Again I heard a loud thump as the bullet struck hard.

Another huge cloud of dust hung in the air where he had been standing. I went to full zoom and could see that he was down in the tussock.

This was a big animal that I would not be able to move by myself, so I turned to look for Steve, who had heard the shots and was already on his way up. On arriving at the spot where he dropped there was nothing; no blood or tracks. I was in a state of shock.

After an hour of searching, Steve yelled out from the other side of the ridge; he had found a trail of blood, which we followed into

a deep gully. The stag suddenly jumped up above me and headed up towards Steve.

“Steve,” I shouted, “he’s coming up!”

All I could do was follow him up because I could not get a shot.

When I came out on the open top, puffing like a steam train, I saw him escaping into an even deeper gully and I took a snapshot at him as he reached the bush. Another cloud of dust and I knew that I had hit him again.

We descended slowly into the gloomy, bottomless pit. He was caught in some tree roots on the edge of a creek, still very much alive. I went around behind him with my knife and grabbed an antler to pull his head back; he had the strength of ten tigers and

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“Shoot the ‘borstard’ again,” he screamed.

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THE CHAIR

By Greig Caigou

(Subtitle: Ya clever sod Murray) Chair: n. a moveable seat for one, with a back on it: the seat of one in authority . . . or presiding over any meeting: the instrument of punishment . . . (Chambers Dictionary) Being a ‘new-b’ to luxury fly-in camps, I was less well prepared than other parties I saw flying into the outer blocks of the Wapiti country this year. (You see, I’m used to living and moving with everything carried on my back – typically this is all about weight reduction in Fiordland; lightweight gear, dehy food and no luxuries!)

However, in a last minute stroke of lavish ‘treat-thinking’, Murray raced into Bunnings to buy a foldaway chair - $8.99 he reckoned would be well spent. On the way out he grabbed the rugged tent pegs he’d forgotten to pack at home (and the main reason for being in that shop in the first place, or so I thought anyway.)

Now, that chair came in for 600kms of ribbing on the way to Te Anau and even more mockery while waiting at the heli-hangar.

However, Simon and I began feeling a little uneasy when we started seeing other such chairs

appearing amongst the heaps of clever stuff being flown in by other experienced parties – bottles of Rum, sealed paint pails of food, small foldaway spades for digging drainage channels, massive thick tarpaulin flys etcetera.

The flight was glorious . . . no AWESOME! If you ever get to fly across Fiordland, do it. The heli departed and we moved our meagre load 300 metres further along the saddle into a nice area of flat bush we discovered whereupon we set to and set up a great base camp.

Immediately this being done, Murray unveiled his little Bunning extrav-adulgence and dashed out onto the snowgrass to set up for spotting game and studying the country where we were to spend our time out fly camping.

Si and I tried to find a comfy cushion on the uneven terrain amongst the spikey Hebes, with long tickling snowgrass poking

in our ears and up our shorts, and so began a long 10-day banter about us poor sods with no foresight to spend $8.99 on a chair! Dinner times together were spent planning hunts and getting another earful from Murray as he sallied forth, with a massive grin, detailing the advantages of a chair while we jostled for half a cheek on a bit of old soggy log.

Of course the ribbing intensified when the weather packed in, with us being stranded in a big base tent trying to play cards while taking turns sitting on a hard plastic food bin that would have been better as the card table. Otherwise we ended up sitting cross-legged on the cold damp floor. Murray just laughed harder from the comfort of his chair - and our butts got damper (but not our spirits)!

About the only respite I got from all this mockery was when I beat Murray back to base camp from one of our two-day solo missions.

I quickly got out the chair, along with the other indulgence lying around in camp – a beer. Man it was good . . . the chair I mean.

Sooo comfy; what a pleasure – a treat for a tiny trice of time – before Murray could catch me!

(I later found out Si had sneaked back through camp en-route to another hunting ground and he

I sneak a wee moment of comfort in ‘Murray’s chair’. too succumbed to significant slouching in super-soft relaxation . . . we’d both stolen our wee moments on ‘The Chair’. Check out the ‘selfie’ photo Murray!

Suffice to say, I’ve learnt a bit about fly-in base camps. If you’re a softy then they’re a great bit of kit and (cement-pills aside) they ‘might’ make a handy item if I ever yielded somewhat in future to using just a tad of the full 500kg payload of a Hughes helicopter!

Footnote: Si Buschl turned 21 in April . . . I bought him a chair!

Gamebird Food Festival 2013

Gamebird hunters are encouraged to make the most of the opportunity to enjoy their successes by taking part in the Gamebird Food Festival. It’s a great way to learn new ways of preparing your quarry or to introduce non-hunting friends to the sport by offering them an opportunity to sample a well-presented, delicious game bird meal. Make sure you provide the restaurant with good quality game, as the quality of the meal will be dictated by the quality of the product you supply them with! To take part, you should contact the restaurant at least a day or two in advance to make your dinner booking and to arrange delivery of your dressed birds.

The Apple Shed, Shed 3, Mapua Wharf, Mapua, Ph 03 540 3381 www.appleshed.co.nz is currently the only participating restaurant in the Nelson/Marlborough Region at this stage but for more details about the Gamebird Food Festival and to find a list of participating restaurants, check out the website www.gamebirdfoodfestival.co.nz

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100% WORTH IT

By Ezra Oates

I arrived at Archery Direct just after ten, ready to set off on our hunt at 2.00pm, hoping for pigs and goats. After about an hour-and-a-half drive we made it to the house where we were staying for the weekend.

Greg, Nic, Soni and I started unloading our bows and decided to have some practice shots at the target to get our eye in; boy that was fun.

After thirty minutes of arrow flinging we decided to head for a bacon hunt!

We made our way to the back of the farm on a truck, with four compound bows and one long bow. We sprayed ourselves with scent cover and prepared for the hunt.

Craig decided to take Soni and I in one group and Greg and Nick in the second group, so we headed off to a popular spot for pigs, stopping at a pinnacle to see if we could see any pigs. After an hour, Soni saw a pig come out of the bush, venture around and then go back into the bush. After another ten minutes the pig came back out, with about ten pigs following it! Craig looked through the binoculars to see if they were worth stalking and decided we’d have a crack. I asked who would shoot first, so Craig found three pieces of stick at different lengths. We drew straws and compared the sizes. I won by like one centimetre and was pretty stoked.

We started from about fivehundred-metres away so it was a pretty good stalk. As we closed to fifty-metres, I stepped in front and got an arrow ready, then I turned into hunt mode.

I crept up the stream, step

by step, then, about twenty -metres away, I saw them, so I slowly snuck up on the pigs. I closed to 12-metres and saw a boar two-metres in front of me.

It saw me and buggered off. I saw a good sow a bit further out and drew back. I held steady and waited for her to turn a bit more broadside, and then aimed my pin for the heart area. As I pulled the trigger on my release aid, I saw my arrow hit the sow in the heart/lung region, causing it to squeal and run about seventy-metres before dropping from sight.

We searched for a blood trail, finding splotches of blood here and there. Then I looked up quickly and saw this beautiful sow lying there dead.

“OMFG,” I shout, “I just shot

my first pig!” and boy I was happy.

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After the kill, we took a few pictures and gutted the pig.

Craig said we could leave her on the fence and pick her up in the morning.

I had determination to get this pig back

so suggested they carry on hunting and I would carry it.

So off I went, starting the twoand-a-half kilometre walk with my first bow shot pig on my back. It was a big walk.

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Putting the nets out created heaps of laughs and full of high hopes, we wandered back to the hut to make ready for an evening stalk.

Next morning we lifted the flounder net without the use of the boat. Eels got most of the fish; we had been warned that the lagoon was home to a good population of these wriggly rascals.

Dean set out armed with both a camera and rifle and although he got onto several deer he never killed one. The countryside was so burnt off, a result of many weeks of drought, that water for animals living in the surrounding forests was at a premium. I located a young pig that was obviously the tail-end-Charlie of a family group. Squealing and grunting, the porky family continued on their way and I watched, with my rifle still over my shoulder, as the small pig chased after his mum.

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Borrowing a dingy that leaked badly, we tied it onto the ute’s tray and with flounder nets, fishing rods and rifles, left Christchurch under a clear blue sky.

The moon was full and the air as still as a cemetery. We wandered along the bush edge as the sun was setting over the forests and six deer appeared in front of us, while another two trotted in the opposite direction. We watched as they slowly moved onto a well-used game trail and disappeared.

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Son Dean, dog Whissee and I were sitting in a secluded hut perched on a small clearing surrounded by stunted native forests and broken terrain, with sheer rock faces and spurs that end in earthquake torn slips. Stags were roaring halfheartedly and pigs could be heard rooting in the shoulder high bracken.

Fresh wallow holes dotted the skyline ridges and mud was thrown up onto overhanging branches. We decided to do another day in the area then headed over to the east coast, to set flounder nets, chase deer and poke about for pigs.

The lagoon we chose was vast and access to the public was extremely limited, as it was via a winding trail that ended in a slope that would prove near impossible to climb in a 4x4 once rain had set in.

The pig weighed 65lbs and boy I was excited and exhausted, but it was onehundred-percent worth it.

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I turned 71 this year and I have been wandering around in the mountains since 1958. Most of my hunting buddies are boring old farts or dead. The division is bugger all.

Where did all those years go? I can’t remember the names of the dogs I’ve had or the rifles I’ve owned, but never will I forget my mountain memories.

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Capital Fishing with George Michael Care For Your Catch It’s often said that we don’t know how lucky we are, especially from people that have come from or travelled overseas. We have an abundance of valuable and highly prized wild seafood resource in close proximity to most of our large cities and towns. This should be nurtured for future generations and not treating the catch with care amounts to sacrilege.

A big part of why we go fishing and hunting is to put a decent feed of true blue organic kiwi protein on the table.

It’s sad to see, especially over summer, fishers with catches that aren’t going to cut the mustard for the table because they haven’t been cared for and will likely end up in the bin or as garden manure. These fish could have been left in the water to spawn or for someone else to enjoy.

This is often a result of ignorance and not realising how much better the catch would taste if properly processed and stored during the day.

Temperature, moisture and gut/gill contamination are number one enemies for causing your catch go off. Like game meat, having your catch cool and moisture free will prolong the storage time and keep the quality up.

What you need: A suitable chilly bin: 60 - 115 litre capacity would suit most situations; those targeting off shore species may need bigger.

Salt-ice, slicker pads or frozen bottles to really keep

that temperature down; the warmer it is and the bigger the bin, the more you may need.

Note: don’t use fresh water ice if you can avoid it; once this melts, in my experience, fresh water has a tendency to accelerate the rate that your catch will go off.

Some neoprene dive gloves, heavy gardening gloves or heavy cotton gloves for handling your catch while cleaning.

Two or three sizes of scrubbing brushes, including a stiff bristled dish washing bush to help brush your catch clean. I use the dishwashing brush to help remove all the kidney from just under the backbone.

A sharp stout knife for gutting and gilling and a stainless steel scaler for the times you would like to cook your fish whole or prepare cutlets.

Some filleting gloves to safe guard those fingers.

Fish should be ikied or hit with a priest as soon as possible after capture, before being put in the icebox. Once you have finished your fishing, gut, gill and remove all the kidney (dark line just under the backbone) from your fish then scrub it clean and

completely free of any blood before placing it back in your icebox, that you have also cleaned out.

Without any gills or guts and the slime scrubbed off, especially with some deepwater species, your catch will be a breeze to fillet and process later in the day.

Always gut and clean your catch at sea if you can, washing thoroughly in saltwater is the way to go (avoid freshwater unless just before cooking).

Trying to fillet un-gutted fish at sea is far from ideal to my mind; fillets get contaminated and there’s a high chance of cutting yourself or someone else in a rocking boat.

Fish can be filleted at home in the shade or under cover, the super clean fish a pleasure to handle; no slime or blood oozing out all over the place.

Heads, frames and pectral fins can be used for smoking or stock, so your catch is fully utilized.

Vac seal units and bags are definitely worth the investment, prolonging the freezer time of your catch.

Hope this all helps, good fishing, care for your catch and enjoy.

BOOK REVIEW

Moa - The Life and Death of New Zealand’s Legendary Bird

By Quinn Berentson Published by Craig Potton Publishing Price $49.99 Reviewed by Tony Orman

Quinn Berentson of Dunedin, scientist, writer, documentary filmmaker and photographer, became intrigued with moa when he was researching for a documentary on the Otago goldfields. He noticed numerous references to the old miners finding moa bones, so delved into it and the result is a terrific book beautifully produced by Nelson publisher, Craig Potton.

What could have become a plodding and tedious history is fascinating and full of human drama.

When European science first came across the moa in the 1840s, the flightless birds were described as, ‘the zoological find of the century’ and moa became the symbol for New Zealand.

In 1901, when the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall visited New Zealand, the menu from the royal supper at Wellington featured a moa and not a kiwi emblem! Rugby cartoons of that era showed a smiling moa - not a kiwi - with a battered lion dangling from its beak, after New Zealand beat England.

In the scientific community the mystical, mysterious moa became the focus of intense scrutiny with some scientists jealously scrambling to get recognition and accolades.

“Baser human nature took over and highly personal and nasty infighting soon broke out amongst those who competed to study them,” says Quinn.

The moa are of relevance to the debate over whether deer - other browsing big game animals - are damaging to vegetation. Fervent green groups argue that New Zealand’s vegetation evolved in the absence of browsing animals. That claim is simply not true. Before the extinction of the moa about 1400 AD, pristine New Zealand was heavily browsed from grasslands to forest, to snowgrass tops.

Moa thrived for probably 50 or 60 million years before with arrival of Polynesian migrants, but were virtually wiped out in a mere 100-years by direct killing or widespread burning of their habitat.

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Somewhere Over The Rainbow

By Frank Cartwright

There have been numerous songs written about rainbows.

Virtually all have romantic lyrics but I have yet to hear one song about a particular type of rainbow - the rainbow that a fisherman hopes to find lustily cavorting about in a spawning creek.

A truly beautiful place where I can find genuine, piscatorial versions of rainbows is Central Otago, which embraces lakes Wakatipu, Wanaka and Hawea; all interconnected via the Clutha river system. These spectacular lakes as well as their out-flowing rivers can be fished virtually anytime of the year, but streams flowing into the lakes from surrounding mountains have a short season. November through April is usual for ‘high country’ fisheries with early November being a prime time to target rainbows as they ascend streams to pair up and spawn. Such streams are much more fun than fishing the big lakes - and a lot less leg work!

For more seasons than I really care to remember, I make my way in late October to Central Otago to suss out which streams are holding good populations of rainbows so that I am well prepared come opening day.

I well recall a ‘mast’ year in ‘98 when rainbow trout were spawning

in thousands. I fly-fished, catching and releasing 86 over two days, which later prompted me to write a magazine article in which I identified a principal spawning stream. I wanted other anglers to enjoy my extraordinarily good sport as well.

However, this incurred the wrath of a certain Fish & Game ranger who was waiting for my return the following season. He really took me to task for divulging the location of the best spawning stream in his region.

“For God’s sake keep that information to yourself!” he bellowed.

“On Saturday I had to contend with a bloody traffic jam on a 4WD dirt track, all because of your damned article!” He then described what he might be tempted to do if I erred again - which sounded like a layman’s version of a colonoscopy but employing a fly rod for the surgical procedure!

There after, he announced, the ‘patient’ would find it extremely inconvenient to sit down. Point taken, I apologised and as a token of reconciliation, offered him my flask, which I had fortuitously filled that morning with good single malt whisky. As we passed the flask back and forth, former animosity gently subsided, an unexpected air of conviviality somehow evolved and well before we said our goodbyes, we had turned things around to depart as friends.

Since that fateful day, I have refrained from identifying specific locations. It’s not that I’m fearful of a certain Fish & Game ranger’s possible retribution but I’m mindful of protecting fragile fisheries from excessive exploitation. In the intervening years since 1998, I have become much more aware of increasing threats to wild fish stocks.

4 pound jack rainbow taken on #12 Waipahi Red fly.

A Canterbury Fish & Game ranger once said to me “Protect the environment and the fish will look after themselves.” I’ve kept that in mind and now keep all my possies to myself. Each season I look for ‘my’ rainbows returning to ‘my’ special streams.

Would you like to fish them too? Just keep looking. You’ll find them - somewhere over the rainbow.

Wavewalk W500 vs Single Kayak Trial I was considering upgrading my kayak so started cruising the internet and discovered an interesting catamaran kayak called a W500. I contacted the distributor and arranged to do a sea trial.

Specifications: Single kayak - 4.2m long x 73cm wide. Payload - 180kg.

Paddle - 2.2m long.

W500 - 3.45m long x 72cm wide. The single is 28kg, the W500 is 27kg. Payload 350kg which means you can take two people with their kit.

Paddle – 2.75m long, because you sit higher out of the water and can also stand up and paddle.

On the Water: I found the W500 easy to paddle and was able to change position while paddling moving my feet forward, stretching my legs out and back tucking them in behind me. The seat was firm and after eight-hours I had a sore butt; foam seat on next trip. Standing and casting took a few goes before I felt comfortable and mastered the wobbles. I comfortably landed half-a-dozen snapper, seven gurnard and a couple of kahawai.

I headed for shore with a tailwind and following sea.

My single kayak has a rudder

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Playing the Blue’s

By Malcolm Halstead

While we are restricted in the South Island in the way of game fish, there are still some challenges out there in the shark world. Each year I spend a week in Kaikoura doing just that, targeting blue and mako sharks on light line. What follows is just one of the great battles we had this year.

We hit the water at 7.00am on another flat, calm day and after checking the craypots, getting 16 nice crays, we headed out approximately 10 kms from the end of the peninsula. Today we were on a 7.5 metre Seamaster, which is more than capable for this blue water activity. While drifting at 1 km per hour, we put out a surface burley trail. The trail comes from a 20kg frozen block of minced fish that slowly gets smaller as it thaws and enters the trail. We get about three-hours out of each block.

Two hours into the trail our first customer turns up, a blue shark about 20kg; we hook him up and get him to the boat quickly so as not to harm him. A tag is inserted into his back and then he is released. Over the period of the week we will tag approximately 30 sharks, which will add to our knowledge of our local shark populations. Next up is a blue of about 40kg - ideal for targeting on light line.

We decided to have a go on 4kg line, which is sticking to our 10 to 1 ratio. A slab of barracouta was put on the hook and over the side it went.

While the shark made a bee line for the bait, we set up the lucky angler, Shaun Bates, with the rod. Shaun was a shark virgin so being good

Weather Bombs

By Daryl Crimp The recent flooding in Nelson raises the issue of localised weather ‘bombs’ and the devastation they can wreck. There has been considerable discussion about whether these are new events, a result of global warming or natural occurrences that are increasing in frequency. For my money, they are natural events that are more common than you think and unless they impact on someone, go largely unnoticed.

Back in the seventies, Sam Burrows and I were hunting in the Hawdon area in Arthur’s Pass and made our first night’s camp, the road end shelter.

There was an electrical storm throughout the early morning and we awakened to the sound of distant thunder, far off toward the head of the mountain catchment. Right on daylight, five trampers disembarked their vehicles and announced they were crossing the Hawdon.

The leader was a middle-aged bearded bloke, in charge of a lanky teenage boy and three teenage girls, all laden with heavy packs.

Sam and I warned them not to go because of the risk of flash flooding; it wasn’t raining heavily where we were, but we knew there’d be flooding from upriver as storm-fed streams emptied into the main river. In situations like these, a large braided river will rise imperceptibly and can readily fool you. Smaller tighter streams rise more quickly and dramatically and it is easy to find yourself cut off or trapped in such circumstances. The bearded one clearly thought he knew more than a couple of skinny eighteenyear-olds, ignoring our protestations as he herded his care toward pending disaster.

By the time we’d debated their folly and scrambled, we came into sight of them just as they were heading down a steep shingle bank into a wide slow moving stretch of water above a nasty 500-metre stretch of rapids. They were clutched to a long driftwood pole, with ‘Old Beardy’ at the top and skinny ribs at the bottom,

but they’d failed to ‘read’ the water properly; the water ‘appeared’ slow moving because it was deep and they hadn’t allowed any ‘run off’ room above the rapids should they get into trouble.

We were running and screaming but they ignored us and I can still picture the sight of five people disappearing completely into the turgid waters, as if it were yesterday. Ironically, ‘Old Beardy’, who thought he knew better than us, abandoned ship first and saved himself; so too did skinny ribs. The girls were left bobbing, face down in the frigid water, to their own devices.

Sam and I slid down the bank, linked arms and managed to drag two of the victims to the bank but the third was now in dire straits. She was wearing a heavy, knitted woollen jersey and the weight left her incapacitated and unable to roll onto her back. She was drowning under her pack and being drawn inexorably towards the rapids – and certain death.

Screaming at the ‘apologies for men’ to take care of two girls, Sam and I were off, sprinting downstream over boulders and rocks as if they were little more than shingle. I made the eye of the rapids just as the girl was being drawn in and accelerating. I thought it was all over and she was heading for ‘Tombstone’. However, Providence smiled on us that day. Just as she was whizzing past me out of reach, her hand bobbed out of the water and I was able to grasp the cuff of her knitted jersey by the slimmest of margins; it was enough to swing her round so that Sam was able to get a better hold and drag her ashore. I took a bit of a swim but came to shore a few yards downstream.

Learning appropriate river safety and crossing techniques is imperative if venturing into the mountains, but so too is being able to ‘read’ the bigger picture and make sensible judgement calls. Localised ‘weather bombs’ can wreck havoc miles away!

TURBO CHARGE YOUR VHF Samaritans, we decided to take the virginity.

Once hooked the shark cruised around a bit before Shaun applied some pressure and let him know he now had a virgin to deal with.

As 200 metres of line peeled off the reel pretty quickly, we decided to follow the fish. Over the next hour we had a few glimpses of the shark as he came to the surface, before diving deep to slug it out. We also got a visit by six large dolphins which played around the boat. During this time Shaun had to be careful that the line did not come into contact with them as this would lead to a bust off.

Finally, the double line came into view and we could make out the shape of the big blue below the boat. Slowly Shaun worked him closer until finally the trace broke the surface.

This gave Andy the chance to secure the trace and hold the shark in close, while I sank the flying gaff in. Together we then hauled our catch on board to a series of yahoos by all. As it was now late afternoon we called it a day and headed for the local weigh station where Shaun’s big blue went 42.4kg. This is a good ten to one fish, i.e. the fish weighs in more than ten times the line weight. A great effort on Shaun’s part and by the look of the smile on his face we have ensured another game fisherman for the future.

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TIDES OF CHANGE

By Poppa Mike

Just What We Always Wanted Our family have always been keen campers; the erecting of our tent being a fun team effort as the kids held the poles and banged in the pegs. However, my wife and I got a wake up call last year when we put up our two person nylon tent. It was a very hot afternoon, with family arriving from far and wide for a Christmas get together. As twelve different tents started going up and I banged in the first peg, I realised I had another twenty-nine pegs still to go. Where were the kids when I needed them? As I looked around I noted they already had their own tents up and were helping others. I banged on while my wife gave the instructions.

That night it rained, heavily. When I woke I was lying in a large puddle of water contained by the contours of the airbed.

Clearly it was time to consider a new tent – something easy to erect, and rainproof.

As I looked around camping grounds, the internet and sports shop brochures I came across the perfect answer … the Oz Trail 6 camper trailer.

Quick and easy to put up, a one person pull-out requiring only two pegs and one minute of time. Another couple of minutes and a couple more pegs to square everything off, then another couple of minutes to erect the awning (easy for one

person, easier with two). Inside the pop-up tent the full size double bed awaits; already made up and stored that way. The foam mattress is thick and comfortable, with lots of headroom and flyscreened windows on all sides.

The fully galvanised trailer is of high quality construction, with a spare wheel and corner stabiliser stands. The interior of the trailer can be accessed at both ends, and through an access hole under the mattress. This provides enough room to store all the extra camping gear. When making my purchase I opted to pay extra for a sunroom, which provides two functional rooms when attached to the awning.

Heavy duty high quality canvas, strong metal framing, quality pegs and guy ropes, built in waterproof flooring, strong zip fly screens on all windows (5) and doors (2) and a heavy duty waterproof road cover round off this high quality product.

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Coastlines

By Ivan Wilson

That Old Feeling!

I’d been hanging out for a fish. A day was made free for a trip and after fuelling up and grabbing some coffee-to-go, it was off to the lake. Fog and mist all the way up the valleys made visibility difficult, but I was entertained on the drive by the familiar tones of Lloyd Scott, a one time resident on the Coast, as he worked his way through the last hour of the All-Night programme on National Radio. Half a dozen hares were loppitying around amongst the baches in the pale early morning light - something I’d not seen before in that area.

Perhaps this has something to do with my not always going out this early.

As Freddy the fisherman always said, “No need to go out until the sun’s on the water.”

I like his style!

The fog thinned, I backed down the ramp and the Osprey was on the water just after the 6.00am news. The Yamaha horses harnessed to the backend rumbled into life as they always do and the Osprey’s beak was pointed in the right direction. Sensations following the throttle twist and getting onto plane, almost made me understand what fizz boaters and jetskiers see in it, but there are really only so many mindless circles one can do eh!

A likely spot brought a first touch but with no other takes a move to spot number two produced much more activity -

touches, takes and some trout in the net. Sunshine overcame the mists and it began to get warm to the point where layers of clothing began to come off and sunscreen went on. A glorious morning followed with rises all around.

The birdlife was a bonus waterfowl of many breeds going about their business - families of duck, pied stilts delicately stalking the edges, white faced herons wafting down for a feed and the ever-vocal paradise duck making a fuss if you got within three-hundred-metres of their brood. The sound track was augmented by some rowdy Ozzies, spur winged plovers protesting and attacking the odd hawk gliding past along the shoreline, on the lookout for a cheap meal of fledgling.

A backdrop of forest-clad mountains rising directly up from the lakeside and topped with the last vestige of winter snows completed the postcard.

As sometimes happens there

were a few things that upset the charm of this bucolic morning - several really good snarlups; including my forceps well enmeshed in the landing net.

Little setbacks to waste angling time, but that’s fishing ain’t it!

Then followed something that just wasn’t fishing - flies not on the leader but embedded in the ointment. Just around the point there was a sudden loud BANG. Seems a couple of people were using the solitude and remoteness of the lake for some clay bird practice.

“Pull!”... BANG ... BANG. “Pull!”... BANG ... BANG. “Pull!”... BANG ... BANG. On and on it went.

However all good things come to an end eventually - they ran out of clays, ammo, or just got bored.

The afternoon deepened and in spite of some human and equipment shortcomings, the glass was still well more than half full rather than half empty, so the moment was right; time to head to the ramp.

After hanging out for a fish I’d had my fix and it was time to go, but I know that old feeling will be back - and … so will I.

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By Peter Hyde Ministry of Fisheries Field Operations Manager for Canterbury and Westland Phone 0800 4 Poacher

Lake Ellesmere Set Netters Continue to Cause Problems Lake Ellesmere (Te Waihora) near Christchurch is one of New Zealand’s most important wetland systems. Its brackish waters cover around 20,000 hectares at an average depth of 1.4 metres and is New Zealand’s fifth largest lake. 43 species of fish have been recorded in this lake.

The lake is regularly opened by diggers to prevent flooding and to maintain fish stocks by allowing ocean spawning fish, such as eels, mullet and flounder to enter and leave the lake.

Currently, the salinity of the lake is high and species such as gurnard and small sharks are being caught.

Set netting for flounder is a popular method of fishing for recreational fishers. You don’t need the expense of a boat.

Most people will simply wade out in waist deep water with a net contained in a bin, floating on an inner tube. The net is then set and left overnight.

When the net is retrieved the following morning, a good meal of flounder is almost guaranteed.

This is to allow trout a sporting chance to migrate from the sea to the rivers.

• No person may set or possess more than one set net.

• The net must not be staked.

• Each end of the net must have a surface float that is marked clearly, legibly and permanently with your initials and surname.

• The maximum allowable daily limit of flatfish (all species of flounder) is 30 per person. To claim a daily limit, you must be actively engaged in setting, retrieving

and removing flounder from the net.

Any nets found in the prohibited area or unmarked are seized by Fishery Officers.

Some people aren’t content with feeding their families and are taking flounder in large quantities to sell. Fishery Officers caught and prosecuted two flounder poachers last year, This has not put an end to the activity.

Based on recently received information from the public, we have increased our patrols in and around Lake Ellesmere.

A few rules that must be adhered to: You can’t set a net within an arc of 1.2 km around the centre of the mouth of: - the Irwell River; - Harts Creek; - the Selwyn River; - No. 2 Drain; - the Halswell River.

From Westport: Greymouth +05 minutes Hokitika +10 minutes Karamea +35 minutes Whanganui Inlet -1 hour 05 minutes From Nelson: Picton is -47 minutes on the high tides and -1 hour 19 minutes on the low tide Elaine Bay -35 minutes Stephens Island -30 minutes Collingwood -25 minutes Croisilles Harbour -18 minutes on the high tides and -02 minutes on the low tides From Akaroa: Kaikoura +1 hour 08 minutes on the high tides and +1 hour on the low tides Lyttelton +43 minutes on the high tides and +42 minutes on the low tides Moeraki -1 hour 08 minutes on the high tides and -35 minutes on the low tides

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MAY MAY 2013 2013 1 Wed Wed 1 2 2 Thu Thu 3 Fri Fri 3 4 Sat Sat 4 5 5 Sun Sun 6 Mon Mon 6 7 7 Tue Tue 8 Wed Wed 8 9 Thu Thu 9 Fri 10 Fri Sat 11 Sat 12 Sun 13 Mon 14 Tue 15 Wed 16 Thu 17 Fri 18 Sat 19 Sun 20 Mon 21 Tue 22 Wed 23 Thu Thu 24 Fri Fri 25 25 Sat Sat 26 26 Sun Sun 27 27 Mon Mon 28 28 Tue Tue 29 29 Wed Wed 30 30 Thu Thu 31 31 Fri Fri

02:41 02:41 03:47 03:47 04:58 04:58 06:06 06:06 00:49 00:49 01:46 01:46 02:37 02:37 03:22 03:22 04:03 04:03 04:41 04:41 05:18 05:18 05:55 00:22 00:59 01:39 02:23 03:13 04:12 05:14 06:13 00:55 01:49 02:40 02:40 03:30 03:30 04:19 04:19 05:08 05:08 05:59 05:59 00:38 00:38 01:32 01:32 02:30 02:30 03:31 03:31

Westport Westport

3.0 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.5 2.9 2.9 2.8 2.7 2.6 2.6 2.6 2.7 0.8 0.7 0.5 0.5 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0

08:59 08:59 10:06 10:06 11:16 11:16 12:21 12:21 07:08 07:08 08:03 08:03 08:51 08:51 09:34 09:34 10:14 10:14 10:51 10:51 11:27 11:27 12:03 06:32 07:11 07:53 08:39 09:32 10:30 11:30 12:28 07:09 08:02 08:52 08:52 09:42 09:42 10:32 10:32 11:23 11:23 12:16 12:16 06:52 06:52 07:47 07:47 08:46 08:46 09:48 09:48

0.5 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 2.9 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.8 2.8 2.9 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.3 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.5

15:21 15:21 16:28 16:28 17:36 17:36 18:41 18:41 13:21 13:21 14:14 14:14 15:02 15:02 15:44 15:44 16:24 16:24 17:01 17:01 17:37 17:37 18:13 12:41 13:20 14:03 14:51 15:44 16:44 17:44 18:42 13:23 14:15 15:06 15:06 15:55 15:55 16:44 16:44 17:34 17:34 18:25 18:25 13:10 13:10 14:07 14:07 15:06 15:06 16:08 16:08

2.9 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.6 2.9 2.8 2.7 2.6 2.5 2.5 2.6 2.7 0.7 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.9

21:27 21:27 22:35 22:35 23:44 23:44

0.6 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7

19:40 19:40 20:32 20:32 21:18 21:18 21:59 21:59 22:36 22:36 23:11 23:11 23:46 23:46

2.8 2.8 2.9 2.9 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0

18:50 19:28 20:10 20:57 21:51 22:53 23:56

0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0 1.0 0.9

19:37 20:29 21:19 21:19 22:08 22:08 22:57 22:57 23:46 23:46

2.8 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.3 3.3 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4

19:17 19:17 20:12 20:12 21:11 21:11 22:13 22:13

0.2 0.2 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.6

Waimakariri Waimakariri Mouth Mouth

1 Wed Wed 1 2 2 Thu Thu 3 Fri Fri 3 4 Sat Sat 4 5 5 Sun Sun 6 Mon Mon 6 7 7 Tue Tue 8 Wed Wed 8 9 Thu Thu 9 Fri 10 Fri Sat 11 Sat 12 Sun 13 Mon 14 Tue 15 Wed 16 Thu 17 Fri 18 Sat 19 Sun 20 Mon 21 Tue 22 Wed 23 Thu Thu 24 Fri Fri 25 25 Sat Sat 26 26 Sun Sun 27 27 Mon Mon 28 28 Tue Tue 29 29 Wed Wed 30 30 Thu Thu 31 31 Fri Fri

01:24 01:24 02:19 02:19 03:23 03:23 04:35 04:35 05:47 05:47 00:39 00:39 01:34 01:34 02:20 02:20 03:01 03:01 03:38 03:38 04:12 04:12 04:46 05:20 00:02 00:37 01:15 01:58 02:50 03:53 05:00 06:03 00:37 01:33 01:33 02:23 02:23 03:11 03:11 03:58 03:58 04:46 04:46 05:34 05:34 00:22 00:22 01:11 01:11 02:04 02:04

4.0 4.0 3.8 3.8 3.6 3.6 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 1.1 1.1 1.0 1.0 0.9 0.9 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.8 3.9 3.8 3.6 3.5 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.5 1.1 0.9 0.9 0.7 0.7 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.4 4.3 4.3 4.1 4.1 3.9 3.9

Nelson Nelson 07:30 07:30 08:35 08:35 09:48 09:48 11:00 11:00 12:04 12:04 06:48 06:48 07:40 07:40 08:25 08:25 09:05 09:05 09:44 09:44 10:21 10:21 10:58 11:36 05:56 06:35 07:20 08:11 09:09 10:10 11:10 12:07 06:59 07:51 07:51 08:41 08:41 09:30 09:30 10:20 10:20 11:11 11:11 12:02 12:02 06:26 06:26 07:21 07:21 08:20 08:20

0.8 0.8 1.0 1.0 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.1 1.1 3.6 3.6 3.8 3.8 3.9 3.9 3.9 3.9 3.9 3.9 3.9 3.9 3.8 3.8 0.9 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.3 1.2 1.1 3.6 3.8 3.8 4.0 4.0 4.1 4.1 4.2 4.2 4.2 4.2 4.1 4.1 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.9 0.9

13:59 13:59 15:00 15:00 16:06 16:06 17:17 17:17 18:27 18:27 12:59 12:59 13:47 13:47 14:31 14:31 15:11 15:11 15:49 15:49 16:24 16:24 16:58 17:33 12:15 12:56 13:40 14:27 15:20 16:18 17:22 18:26 13:01 13:54 13:54 14:45 14:45 15:36 15:36 16:27 16:27 17:16 17:16 18:06 18:06 12:54 12:54 13:48 13:48 14:43 14:43

Akaroa Akaroa

3.7 3.7 3.5 3.5 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4 1.0 1.0 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.9 3.7 3.6 3.4 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.5 0.9 0.7 0.7 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 4.0 4.0 3.8 3.8 3.6 3.6

20:02 20:02 21:05 21:05 22:18 22:18 23:32 23:32

0.9 0.9 1.1 1.1 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2

19:28 19:28 20:19 20:19 21:03 21:03 21:43 21:43 22:19 22:19 22:54 22:54 23:28

3.6 3.6 3.7 3.7 3.9 3.9 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.0

18:09 18:47 19:29 20:16 21:13 22:20 23:32

0.9 1.0 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.4 1.3

19:27 20:22 20:22 21:13 21:13 22:01 22:01 22:48 22:48 23:34 23:34

3.7 3.9 3.9 4.2 4.2 4.3 4.3 4.4 4.4 4.4 4.4

18:56 18:56 19:48 19:48 20:45 20:45

0.6 0.6 0.8 0.8 1.0 1.0

1 Wed Wed 1 2 2 Thu Thu 3 Fri Fri 3 4 Sat Sat 4 5 5 Sun Sun 6 Mon Mon 6 7 7 Tue Tue 8 Wed Wed 8 9 Thu Thu 9 Fri 10 Fri Sat 11 Sat 12 Sun 13 Mon 14 Tue 15 Wed 16 Thu 17 Fri 18 Sat 19 Sun 20 Mon 21 Tue 22 Wed 23 Thu Thu 24 Fri Fri 25 25 Sat Sat 26 26 Sun Sun 27 27 Mon Mon 28 28 Tue Tue 29 29 Wed Wed 30 30 Thu Thu 31 31 Fri Fri

01:10 01:10 02:05 02:05 03:09 03:09 04:21 04:21 05:33 05:33 00:06 00:06 01:01 01:01 01:47 01:47 02:28 02:28 03:05 03:05 03:39 03:39 04:13 04:47 05:23 00:23 01:01 01:44 02:36 03:39 04:46 05:49 00:04 01:00 01:00 01:50 01:50 02:38 02:38 03:25 03:25 04:13 04:13 05:01 05:01 00:08 00:08 00:57 00:57 01:50 01:50

Havelock Havelock

3.0 3.0 2.8 2.8 2.7 2.7 2.6 2.6 2.6 2.6 1.0 1.0 0.9 0.9 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.8 0.8 2.8 2.7 2.6 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.6 1.0 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.5 3.2 3.2 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.9

06:57 06:57 08:02 08:02 09:15 09:15 10:27 10:27 11:31 11:31 06:34 06:34 07:26 07:26 08:11 08:11 08:51 08:51 09:30 09:30 10:07 10:07 10:44 11:22 12:01 06:02 06:47 07:38 08:36 09:37 10:37 11:34 06:45 07:37 07:37 08:27 08:27 09:16 09:16 10:06 10:06 10:57 10:57 11:48 11:48 05:53 05:53 06:48 06:48 07:47 07:47

0.8 0.8 0.9 0.9 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 2.7 2.7 2.8 2.8 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.8 0.9 1.0 1.0 1.1 1.1 1.0 1.0 2.7 2.8 2.8 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.8 0.8

13:45 13:45 14:46 14:46 15:52 15:52 17:03 17:03 18:13 18:13 12:26 12:26 13:14 13:14 13:58 13:58 14:38 14:38 15:16 15:16 15:51 15:51 16:25 17:00 17:36 12:42 13:26 14:13 15:06 16:04 17:08 18:12 12:28 13:21 13:21 14:12 14:12 15:03 15:03 15:54 15:54 16:43 16:43 17:33 17:33 12:40 12:40 13:34 13:34 14:29 14:29

2.8 2.8 2.6 2.6 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 0.9 0.9 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 2.7 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.6 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 3.0 3.0 2.8 2.8 2.7 2.7

Rakaia Rakaia Mouth Mouth

19:29 19:29 20:32 20:32 21:45 21:45 22:59 22:59

0.8 0.8 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0

19:14 19:14 20:05 20:05 20:49 20:49 21:29 21:29 22:05 22:05 22:40 22:40 23:14 23:48

2.7 2.7 2.8 2.8 2.9 2.9 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 2.9

18:14 18:56 19:43 20:40 21:47 22:59

0.9 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.2 1.1

19:13 20:08 20:08 20:59 20:59 21:47 21:47 22:34 22:34 23:20 23:20

2.8 2.9 2.9 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2

18:23 18:23 19:15 19:15 20:12 20:12

0.6 0.6 0.8 0.8 0.9 0.9

1 03:00 0.3 09:14 2.4 15:22 0.3 21:41 2.5 1 02:08 0.6 08:21 2.4 14:30 0.6 20:48 2.5 1 02:04 0.3 08:18 2.4 14:26 0.3 20:45 2.5 1 Wed 1 Wed 1 Wed Wed 03:00 0.3 09:14 2.4 15:22 0.3 21:41 2.5 Wed 02:08 0.6 08:21 2.4 14:30 0.6 20:48 2.5 Wed 02:04 0.3 08:18 2.4 14:26 0.3 20:45 2.5 2 Thu 03:59 0.3 10:11 2.4 16:20 0.4 22:38 2.5 2 Thu 03:07 0.6 09:18 2.4 15:28 0.6 21:45 2.5 2 Thu 03:03 0.3 09:15 2.4 15:24 0.4 21:42 2.5 2 2 2 03:59 0.3 10:11 2.4 16:20 0.4 22:38 2.5 03:07 0.6 09:18 2.4 15:28 0.6 21:45 2.5 03:03 0.3 09:15 2.4 15:24 0.4 21:42 2.5 3 Thu 3 Thu 3 Thu 04:57 0.3 11:08 2.4 17:19 0.4 23:36 2.4 04:05 0.6 10:15 2.4 16:27 0.6 22:43 2.4 04:01 0.3 10:12 2.4 16:23 0.4 22:40 2.4 Fri Fri Fri 3 Sat 3 Sat 3 Sat 04:57 0.3 11:08 2.4 17:19 0.4 23:36 2.4 04:05 0.6 10:15 2.4 16:27 0.6 22:43 2.4 04:01 0.3 10:12 2.4 16:23 0.4 22:40 2.4 Fri Fri Fri 4 4 4 05:54 0.4 12:05 2.4 18:18 0.4 05:02 0.6 11:12 2.4 17:26 0.6 23:40 2.4 04:58 0.4 11:09 2.4 17:22 0.4 23:37 2.4 4 4 4 Sat 05:54 0.4 12:05 2.4 18:18 0.4 Sat 05:02 0.6 11:12 2.4 17:26 0.6 23:40 2.4 Sat 04:58 0.4 11:09 2.4 17:22 0.4 23:37 2.4 5 Sun 00:33 2.4 06:49 0.4 13:01 2.3 19:15 0.4 5 Sun 05:57 0.6 12:08 2.3 18:23 0.6 5 Sun 05:53 0.4 12:05 2.3 18:19 0.4 5 5 5 Sun 00:33 2.4 06:49 0.4 13:01 2.3 19:15 0.4 Sun 05:57 0.6 12:08 2.3 18:23 0.6 Sun 05:53 0.4 12:05 2.3 18:19 0.4 6 Mon 01:29 2.3 07:41 0.4 13:55 2.3 20:10 0.5 6 Mon 00:36 2.3 06:49 0.6 13:02 2.3 19:18 0.7 6 Mon 00:33 2.3 06:45 0.4 12:59 2.3 19:14 0.5 6 Tue 6 Tue 6 Tue Mon 01:29 2.3 07:41 0.4 13:55 2.3 20:10 0.5 Mon 00:36 2.3 06:49 0.6 13:02 2.3 19:18 0.7 Mon 00:33 2.3 06:45 0.4 12:59 2.3 19:14 0.5 7 7 7 02:21 2.3 08:32 0.4 14:47 2.3 21:03 0.5 01:28 2.3 07:40 0.6 13:54 2.3 20:11 0.7 01:25 2.3 07:36 0.4 13:51 2.3 20:07 0.5 7 7 7 02:21 2.3 08:32 0.4 14:47 2.3 21:03 0.5 01:28 2.3 07:40 0.6 13:54 2.3 20:11 0.7 01:25 2.3 07:36 0.4 13:51 2.3 20:07 0.5 8 Tue 8 Tue 8 Tue Wed 03:11 2.3 09:21 0.4 15:37 2.3 21:53 0.5 Wed 02:18 2.3 08:29 0.6 14:44 2.3 21:01 0.7 Wed 02:15 2.3 08:25 0.4 14:41 2.3 20:57 0.5 8 Thu 8 Thu 8 Thu 03:11 2.2 2.3 10:09 09:21 0.5 0.4 16:24 15:37 2.3 2.3 22:40 21:53 0.5 0.5 02:18 2.2 2.3 09:17 08:29 0.7 0.6 15:31 14:44 2.3 2.3 21:48 21:01 0.7 0.7 02:15 2.2 2.3 09:13 08:25 0.5 0.4 15:28 14:41 2.3 2.3 21:44 20:57 0.5 0.5 Wed 03:58 Wed 03:05 Wed 03:02 9 9 9 9 9 9 03:58 2.2 10:09 0.5 16:24 2.3 22:40 0.5 03:05 2.2 09:17 0.7 15:31 2.3 21:48 0.7 Thu Thu Thu 10 Fri 04:44 2.2 10:55 0.5 17:09 2.3 23:25 0.5 10 Fri 03:51 2.2 10:03 0.7 16:16 2.3 22:33 0.7 10 Fri 03:02 03:48 2.2 2.2 09:13 09:59 0.5 0.5 15:28 16:13 2.3 2.3 21:44 22:29 0.5 0.5 10 Sat 10 Sat 10 Sat 04:44 2.1 2.2 11:40 10:55 0.5 0.5 17:53 17:09 2.3 2.3 23:25 0.5 03:51 2.1 2.2 10:48 10:03 0.7 0.7 17:00 16:16 2.3 2.3 23:17 22:33 0.8 0.7 03:48 2.1 2.2 10:44 09:59 0.5 0.5 16:57 16:13 2.3 2.3 23:13 22:29 0.6 0.5 Fri Fri Fri 11 11 11 05:29 04:36 04:33 11 Sun 11 Sun 11 Sun 05:29 0.6 2.1 06:15 11:40 2.1 0.5 12:24 17:53 0.6 2.3 18:37 2.2 04:36 2.1 2.1 11:32 10:48 0.8 0.7 17:44 17:00 2.2 2.3 23:17 0.8 04:33 2.1 2.1 11:28 10:44 0.6 0.5 17:41 16:57 2.2 2.3 23:56 23:13 0.6 0.6 Sat 00:09 Sat 05:22 Sat 05:19 12 12 12 12 12 12 00:09 0.6 06:15 2.1 12:24 0.6 18:37 2.2 05:22 2.1 11:32 0.8 17:44 2.2 05:19 2.1 11:28 0.6 17:41 2.2 23:56 0.6 Sun Sun Sun 13 Mon 00:52 0.6 07:01 2.1 13:07 0.6 19:20 2.2 13 Mon 00:00 0.8 06:08 2.1 12:15 0.8 18:27 2.2 13 Mon 06:05 2.1 12:11 0.6 18:24 2.2 13 Tue 13 Tue 13 Tue 00:52 0.6 0.6 07:47 07:01 2.0 2.1 13:50 13:07 0.6 0.6 20:04 19:20 2.2 2.2 00:00 0.8 0.8 06:54 06:08 2.0 2.1 12:58 12:15 0.8 0.8 19:11 18:27 2.2 2.2 06:05 0.6 2.1 06:51 12:11 2.0 0.6 12:54 18:24 0.6 2.2 19:08 2.2 Mon 01:35 Mon 00:43 Mon 00:39 14 14 14 14 14 14 01:35 0.6 07:47 2.0 13:50 0.6 20:04 2.2 00:43 0.8 06:54 2.0 12:58 0.8 19:11 2.2 00:39 0.6 06:51 2.0 12:54 0.6 19:08 Tue Tue Tue 15 Wed 02:19 0.6 08:32 2.0 14:33 0.7 20:47 2.1 15 Wed 01:27 0.8 07:39 2.0 13:41 0.9 19:54 2.1 15 Wed 01:23 0.6 07:36 2.0 13:37 0.7 19:51 2.2 2.1 15 Thu 15 Thu 15 Thu 02:19 0.7 0.6 09:17 08:32 2.0 2.0 15:18 14:33 0.7 0.7 21:31 20:47 2.1 2.1 01:27 0.9 0.8 08:24 07:39 2.0 2.0 14:26 13:41 0.9 0.9 20:38 19:54 2.1 2.1 01:23 0.7 0.6 08:21 07:36 2.0 2.0 14:22 13:37 0.7 0.7 20:35 19:51 2.1 2.1 Wed 03:03 Wed 02:11 Wed 02:07 16 16 16 16 Fri 16 Fri 16 Fri 03:03 0.7 0.7 10:01 09:17 2.0 2.0 16:03 15:18 0.7 0.7 22:16 21:31 2.1 2.1 02:11 0.9 0.9 09:08 08:24 2.0 2.0 15:11 14:26 0.9 0.9 21:23 20:38 2.1 2.1 02:07 0.7 0.7 09:05 08:21 2.0 2.0 15:07 14:22 0.7 0.7 21:20 20:35 2.1 2.1 Thu 03:49 Thu 02:57 Thu 02:53 17 17 17 17 Sat 17 Sat 17 Sat 03:49 0.7 10:45 10:01 2.0 16:50 16:03 0.7 23:01 22:16 2.1 02:57 0.9 09:52 09:08 2.0 15:58 15:11 0.9 22:08 21:23 2.1 02:53 0.7 09:49 09:05 2.0 15:54 15:07 0.7 22:05 21:20 2.1 Fri Fri Fri 18 18 18 04:35 03:43 03:39 18 Sun 18 Sun 18 Sun 04:35 0.6 0.7 11:30 10:45 2.1 2.0 17:38 16:50 0.7 23:47 23:01 2.1 03:43 0.8 0.9 10:37 09:52 2.1 2.0 16:46 15:58 0.9 22:54 22:08 2.1 03:39 0.6 0.7 10:34 09:49 2.1 2.0 16:42 15:54 0.7 22:51 22:05 2.1 Sat 05:20 Sat 04:28 Sat 04:24 19 19 19 19 19 19 20 Sun 20 Sun 20 Sun 06:05 0.6 11:30 12:16 2.1 17:38 18:28 0.7 0.6 23:47 2.1 05:13 0.8 10:37 11:23 2.1 16:46 17:36 0.9 0.8 22:54 23:42 2.1 2.2 05:09 0.6 10:34 11:20 2.1 16:42 17:32 0.7 0.6 22:51 23:39 2.1 2.2 Mon 05:20 Mon 04:28 Mon 04:24 20 Tue 20 Tue 20 Tue 06:05 2.2 0.6 06:50 12:16 0.5 2.1 13:04 18:28 2.2 0.6 19:18 0.6 05:13 0.7 0.8 12:11 11:23 2.2 2.1 18:26 17:36 0.8 23:42 2.2 05:09 0.5 0.6 12:08 11:20 2.2 2.1 18:22 17:32 0.6 23:39 2.2 Mon 00:35 Mon 05:58 Mon 05:54 21 21 21 21 Wed 21 Wed 21 Wed 00:35 2.2 07:37 06:50 0.5 13:54 13:04 2.3 2.2 20:11 19:18 0.5 0.6 05:58 2.2 0.7 06:45 12:11 0.7 2.2 13:01 18:26 2.3 0.8 19:19 0.7 05:54 2.2 0.5 06:41 12:08 0.5 2.2 12:58 18:22 2.3 0.6 19:15 0.5 Tue 01:25 Tue 00:32 Tue 00:29 22 22 22 23 23 23 22 Thu 22 Thu 22 Thu 01:25 2.3 2.2 08:27 07:37 0.4 0.5 14:46 13:54 2.4 2.3 21:05 20:11 0.4 0.5 00:32 2.3 2.2 07:35 06:45 0.6 0.7 13:53 13:01 2.4 2.3 20:13 19:19 0.6 0.7 00:29 2.3 2.2 07:31 06:41 0.4 0.5 13:50 12:58 2.4 2.3 20:09 19:15 0.4 0.5 Wed 02:16 Wed 01:23 Wed 01:20 24 24 24 23 Fri 23 Fri 23 Fri 02:16 2.3 09:21 08:27 0.3 0.4 15:40 14:46 2.5 2.4 22:00 21:05 0.3 0.4 01:23 2.3 08:29 07:35 0.6 14:47 13:53 2.5 2.4 21:08 20:13 0.6 01:20 2.3 08:25 07:31 0.3 0.4 14:44 13:50 2.5 2.4 21:04 20:09 0.3 0.4 Thu 03:08 Thu 02:15 Thu 02:12 25 25 25 04:03 2.4 10:17 0.3 16:36 2.6 22:56 0.3 03:10 2.4 09:25 0.6 15:43 2.6 22:04 0.6 03:07 2.4 09:21 0.3 15:40 2.6 22:00 Sat Sat Sat 24 Fri 03:08 2.3 09:21 24 Fri 02:15 2.3 08:29 24 Fri 02:12 2.3 08:25 15:40 2.5 22:00 14:47 2.5 21:08 14:44 2.5 21:04 0.3 26 26 26 25 Sun 25 Sun 25 Sun 04:03 2.4 11:14 10:17 0.2 0.3 17:32 16:36 2.6 23:52 22:56 0.2 0.3 03:10 2.4 10:22 09:25 0.5 0.6 16:39 15:43 2.6 23:00 22:04 0.5 0.6 03:07 2.4 10:18 09:21 0.2 0.3 16:36 15:40 2.6 22:56 22:00 0.2 0.3 Sat 04:59 Sat 04:06 Sat 04:03 27 27 27 26 Mon 26 Mon 26 Mon 04:59 2.4 12:11 11:14 0.2 18:29 17:32 2.6 23:52 0.2 04:06 2.4 11:19 10:22 0.5 17:36 16:39 2.6 23:56 23:00 0.5 04:03 2.4 11:15 10:18 0.2 17:33 16:36 2.6 23:52 22:56 0.2 Sun 05:57 Sun 05:04 Sun 05:01 28 28 28 27 Tue 27 Tue 27 Tue 05:57 0.2 2.4 06:57 12:11 2.5 0.2 13:08 18:29 0.2 2.6 19:26 2.6 05:04 2.5 2.4 12:16 11:19 0.5 0.5 18:33 17:36 2.6 2.6 23:56 0.5 05:01 2.5 2.4 12:12 11:15 0.2 0.2 18:30 17:33 2.6 2.6 23:52 0.2 Mon 00:48 Mon 06:04 Mon 06:01 29 29 29 28 Wed 28 Wed 28 Wed 00:48 0.2 0.2 07:56 06:57 2.4 2.5 14:05 13:08 0.2 0.2 20:24 19:26 2.6 2.6 06:04 0.5 2.5 07:03 12:16 2.4 0.5 13:13 18:33 0.5 2.6 19:31 2.6 06:01 0.2 2.5 07:00 12:12 2.4 0.2 13:09 18:30 0.2 2.6 19:28 2.6 Tue 01:44 Tue 00:52 Tue 00:48 30 30 30 29 Thu 29 Thu 29 Thu 01:44 0.2 0.2 08:55 07:56 2.4 2.4 15:02 14:05 0.3 0.2 21:21 20:24 2.5 2.6 00:52 0.5 0.5 08:02 07:03 2.4 2.4 14:10 13:13 0.6 0.5 20:28 19:31 2.5 2.6 00:48 0.2 0.2 07:59 07:00 2.4 2.4 14:06 13:09 0.3 0.2 20:25 19:28 2.5 2.6 Wed 02:41 Wed 01:49 Wed 01:45 31 31 31 30 Fri 30 Fri 30 Fri 02:41 0.3 0.2 09:52 08:55 2.4 2.4 16:00 15:02 0.3 0.3 22:18 21:21 2.5 2.5 01:49 0.6 0.5 08:59 08:02 2.4 2.4 15:08 14:10 0.6 0.6 21:25 20:28 2.5 2.5 01:45 0.3 0.2 08:56 07:59 2.4 2.4 15:04 14:06 0.3 0.3 21:22 20:25 2.5 2.5 Thu 03:38 Thu 02:46 Thu 02:42 31 Fri 31 Fri 02:46Note: 31 depth 09:52by2.4 16:00 0.3 22:18 2.5 0.6 Tides 08:59 in2.4 15:08 0.6 order.

21:25 2.5 02:42 2.4 daily 15:04depth 0.3 = 21:22 Fri Tidal03:38 data 0.3 supplied OceanFun Publishing Ltd www.ofu.co.nz chronological Lower daily = low0.3 tides.08:56 Higher high2.5 tides.

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& Venison is very lean and best cooked medium-medium rare. Th e best way to cook steaks is in the ir whole muscle groups by baking them in a hot oven and slicing aft er cooking as this will retain the juices and flavours.

W i l d Ve nison Ba c and Fla med Bra k Steaks ndy Sau ce Cracked pepper

1kg whole venison fillet Salt Cracked pepper

Olive oil

Olive oil Brandy and Mushroom Sauce

2-3 tbsp brandy

1-1/2 cups sliced mushrooms

1 cup liquid beef stock 100ml cream

Cut the fillets into large portions that will fit snugly into a frypan. Season all sides with a sprinkle of salt and a good dash of cracked pepper. Drizzle over olive oil.

Add a thin layer of olive oil to a heavy-bottom pan and heat until it is shimmering.

Add fillets and sear on all sides until nicely browned. Remove to an oven dish and bake in a preheated oven at 200C for about 10 minutes.

Keep pan on heat and cook mushro oms in a little oil until coloured. Deglaze (Flame) with brandy. Add stock, cream and pepper and simmer until red uce to a creamy sauce.

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The Pink Page Albert Puts Kerensa in the Pink

Ali’s First Ele’

By Kerensa Leadbetter

These two beauties were caught out of Croisilles Harbour in March. We have a fortnight’s holiday in the Sounds every year and this was first time we really got into the tuna!

It was an absolutely awesome day, made better by the fact that we landed 15 albacore on the boat, but only kept two and released the rest. I nailed six of the tenacious torpedo-like tuna, so my hubby reckons that makes me hot for the Pink Page. Hopefully they will be around for us to have another crack at next year!

Obituary

Untiring, Retiring Betty was an Inspiration

By Tony Orman One of Marlborough’s foremost advocates for recreational fishing and sensible fisheries management, Betty McNabb, recently passed away.

For decades, Betty was a stalwart, ever reliable, ever vigilant and ever ready to make her contribution. A member of the Marlborough Recreational Fishers Association, she was recently made a Life Member of the organisation.

She was a foundation member, past Committee member and Life Member of the Pelorus Boating Club and their fisheries officer and representative for many years. This led to her representing recreational fishers’ interests on many committees.

She was a foundation member of the Ministry of Fisheries’ Top of the South Recreation Forum and for many years represented Marlborough on it.

A long-time member of TASFISH, Betty also served for many years

on the Ministry’s Liaison Committee, Scallop Enhancement Company Committee and the Ministry’s Marine Farm Advisory Committee.

In late 2002 Betty was elected to a Marlborough Fishery Steering Committee, which eventually lead to the formation the Marlborough District Council’s supported group called ‘Soundfish Inc’.

Betty made countless submissions to government fishing management matters and Resource Management Act marine farming applications, personally attending many hearings to present her submission. On the very recent and controversial King Salmon application, she was making her views known.

“Most of us who knew Betty well will know she was a ‘straight shooter’ with a clear mind of her own and would not willingly tolerate fools or bureaucracy and when appropriate, was not timid to express her own independent opinion,” says Des Boyce, MRFA spokesperson.

Yet Betty was retiring, not seeking accolades and just wanting to get recreational fishing fairly treated.

If it were not for Betty’s commitment, dedication and self-sacrifice, the recreational fishery and environment would be worse off. She has set and will leave a formidable benchmark for this generation to follow.

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By Ali Outram Early Monday morning, after a rather sleepless night – I always get excited about going fishing – Greg and I went elephant fish hunting at Conway. The goal was to get my first fish that gave a bit of a fight when reeling it in.

Well, it turned into quite a successful day. First cast, Greg caught an ele’ and the second one came not long after that. Then a third and then it was my turn the next time there was a bite. I was a little apprehensive, especially after the second ele’ stabbed Greg in the hand. These were serious fish!

With Greg instructing me, I quickly tightened up the drag knob, too tight at first so it had to be loosened a little. Then the real fun began! It was hard work pulling it in, especially with the waves being a little rough, but I managed. At one point I thought I couldn’t do it, but with a bit of encouragement, carried on. It was definitely worth the effort and one of my proudest fishing moments so far.

Late afternoon, slightly sunburned and with an almost full chillybin, we decide to call it a day and head home for a delicious feast of fish. Can’t wait for the next fishing adventure; wonder what we’ll catch next?

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Because of my hair brain idea of keeping pigs, I sure could of have done with a pair of these. Many a cold morning I had on my jeans and gumboots and five little pigs liked to jump on and bite at me. I forever had muddy jeans; I then had to change clothes and go to work. Once again they are very lightweight but very strong and durable. I can also see some uses for these in the garden and Crimpy is nagging me to have a yellow and blue pair for the boat. Nalder also gives you the option of a double or single thickness front, which helps with wear and tear.

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Nalder’s 100% waterproof vest is a smart solution. This vest keeps your chest and core warm but lets you have your arms free to lift and work with. It has an extended back and works well with bib trousers, so will keep you watertight and warm for scallop dredging, whitebaiting, farming and much more. Hi Viz options also available Managing Director Robert Leighs has put together an exclusive The Fishing Paper three-item deal you get all of the above for only $300 normally $448.50 inc gst, so give Nalder Protective Clothing a call on 03 546 7035 and ask for your Fishing Paper Deal. email: robert@nalder.co.nz or to see the complete range visit www.nalder.co.nz All Nalder protective clothing is NZ made, so support local.

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By Andrew Campbell

Six Tauranga yachties may be in trouble with the law, after it is claimed they failed to get out of the path of a cargo ship entering the Port of Tauranga at the weekend. The skippers face disqualification from placings in the race they were taking part in at the time of the incident on Sunday morning and the marine equivalent of a ticket, a $200 fine.

Stand-up Paddleboards (SUPs) Stand-up Paddleboards (SUPs) meet the definition of paddlecraft as stated in Maritime Rule Part 91: Navigation Safety Rules, and lifejackets or PFDs should be worn or carried at all times when operating a paddlecraft.

SUP users are also required to comply with a range of other legislation applying to recreational vessels, including Maritime Rule Part 22: Collision Prevention.

One Dead in Capsize

By Viv Logie

Three fishermen clung to the upturned hull of their fishing boat after it capsized on the Greymouth bar this morning, but only two survived as the skipper was washed off and drowned, despite a frantic rescue attempt.

Push for Safety Measures in Wake of Drownings

By David Crerar

The coroner presiding over the inquest into the loss of four men in Fiordland indicated he would recommend a legislative change to make float-free satellite-linked beacons compulsory on fishing boats and fishermen required to wear flotation devices.

when she struck a bridge pile, has been hit with fines, costs and reparation totaling more than $4000.

Daniel Willis was convicted in the Tauranga District Court of dangerously operating his boat on Lake Karapiro and then failing to report the incident to Maritime New Zealand.

Family’s Near-fatal Birthday Adventure

By Matthew Theunissen

Choking on seawater, Janet Cocker and her seven-year-old son used his bright yellow rain jacket to wave down passing fishermen, after their boat sank in the Hauraki Gulf on a family fishing trip yesterday. All seven people on board the 5.8m craft survived bobbing in the furious swells, for up to two hours after the boat began taking on water near Ponui Island.

What a fantastic story the above headline was. A seven-year-old encouraged mum not to panic and advised that all will be okay.

Mum and the seven-year-old were the only ones wearing lifejackets and were seen by a passing boat and they were able to direct rescuers to the other five. All were lucky to be saved, as all had to rely on flotsam for floatation and warmth. A lifejacket does both these things.

When the good bloke the Deputy Harbour Master comes your way. Meet him with a smile, because he is there because he cares.

Wishing you safe boating these holidays.

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