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It was not what we expected. After an unsuccessful morning fishing the Pelorus Sound, we stopped at a spot where we have only caught small snapper before and set about fishing. Warwick Baigent and I were both straylining with light tackle – 5kg and 8kg rods with quarter ounce sinkers on fluorocarbon trace attached to 6/0 circle hooks.

It was a very sunny morning approaching

the top of the tide and we were only in five metres of water when the first rod doubled over at around 10.30am. The action was explosive and quite against the run of play, but we both landed good size fish.

Warwick is pictured here with our two spring reds weighing 21.5lb and 17lb. We usually let the old big fish go but a swallowed hook meant that was not possible.

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Power to the pink!

Bridget Johnson with a beauty to boast about.

Lew Slides Silver for Salmon

By Cheryl Doherty

THE BROTHER FISH

By Bridget Johnson

It was an overcast warm sunny morning in the Sounds.

Myself, hubby and children Eva and Luca decided to head out for a fish in the Pelorus Sound, a favourite haunt for our family.

Line out, berley brewing, sipping back a cup of tea, being amused and entertained by the kids catching bait fish and a few pannies; what a morning. We were only fishing for an hour when one big chomp and that magic sound of ya line

screaming... music to my ears. It was a beauty weighing at 15.5lb.

We took a quick photo then released it, as we had some small ones on board already for dinner.

Even though it was not my biggest snapper, it was still a great fish and a great feeling winding it in. Oh, and I loved ringing my big bro to tell him all about it in great detail.

We live in Twizel and fish the Ohau A canal, which hosts a salmon farm. There are some goodies in there, too!

Our kids have been brought up here, as I was. It is such a beautiful place, especially when we have such good fishing at our doorstep. The salmon farm recently let a lot of fish go, hence the popularity, and it’s great to see kids out there enjoying themselves.

We get out more regularly now the kids can cast and take weed off the line. The excitement you see in their faces when they get a feisty fish on the line is neat. We are lucky – we scoot out whenever the weather is nice – how’s that for luxury? It’s only five minutes from our house.

The kids are getting good at spin fishing and have good success using Silver Sliders and Tassie Devils. Lewis, who is nine-years-old, caught this nice salmon recently.

Lew’s Grandad (Pat Gollan) worked on the hydro project that built these powerhouses - now he is a ranger protecting the fish they hold – rounds out the story nicely.

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Terry’s Trevally Terror

The Groynes’ Take a Kid Fishing Day The Groynes Lakes Annual TAKF event 2013, considered the largest kids’ fishing event in New Zealand, didn’t disappoint this year, with an estimated 5000 to 6000 kids and parents taking part in this free event.

The Isaac Wildlife Trust had kindly donated over 800 salmon around one kilogram, and a few bonus ‘horse’ rainbow trout. The morning dawned a crisp, still and unfortunately sunny day at the Groynes Ponds in Christchurch.

The first keen kids and their parents arrived at 7.30am in anticipation of the early catch of the day when fishing commenced at 9.00am.

Ponds one and two were dedicated to the under eight-year-olds and volunteer anglers gave one on one tuition on how to catch their fish on spinners. The remaining ponds, three and four, were open for bait fishing and were quickly overflowing with rods.

The first hour, as expected, was lively and explosive for hooking fish. However, as the sun made its appearance and the 22 degree heat inevitably took its toll, with clear ponds and spooked fish it made for hard fishing as we hit the wall… with some young anglers spending up to four hours trying with no luck.

The only fish caught in the heat of the day were the chocolate ones donated by Jimmys and Rainbow Confectionery, which went down a treat.

Thanks to the sponsors like Jimmys Bait Company, who provided free Live Worms and Organic Bait Bullets in the new Trout/ Salmon flavour, Fish and Game who had loan rods for first timers, free sunscreen and the 30 odd volunteers giving their time on the day including Trust Chairman Dave Denton.

It was good to see so many first time fishing

By Steve (Pieman) Terry

I love fishing… and pies.

I especially love away fishing trips with mates and have nearly drowned on numerous occasions, but I have an inbuilt buoyancy factor that keeps me alive. That and good mates who look after me… like Crimpy.

I arranged for a few of the hardy boys to do the d’Urville experience a winter back and host Crimpy took us to all his secret spots. It’s a shame he hadn’t told the fish, because they were a secret to them as well!

However, I’m a big – I mean BIG believer in perseverance paying off, so we gave it death for a few days and I was rewarded for my efforts with this scrappy trevally. It succumbed to a

Black Magic Snapper Terror in about 80 metres of water.

I know it was a while ago, but I have plenty of time to write about it now. I’m lying on the couch recovering from reconstructive knee surgery after being crippled when Captain Crimpy discovered a hole in the ocean that hadn’t been explored before. Not many skippers do 40mph into the face of the storm but hey, the man has nine lives. He blames too many pies putting unnecessary weight on my knee, but I prefer to think that it was his driving.

He’s a bloody terror.

Anyway, gotta go. I just heard the microwave ding. I feel another pie coming on!

families come along and learn the basic art of fishing; anything to get kids out into the fresh air and being active is important these days. The smiles on the faces of the successful children, as seen in this photo, were priceless.

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Vern

It's Never a Waste of Time

By Steve Robinson

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Vern Brabant of Nelson is obviously a believer in the old adage, the early bird catches the worm. He was out on the river the moment October rang in the new trout season and had a solid hook up, which suggested a good fish.

Vern was using one of his own fly patterns, the ‘PPP’ tied on a size 12 – a clearly deadly combination. The beautiful looking trout dwarfed Vern’s favourite read, The Fishing Paper, weighing in at 10lb and measuring 740mm. It was caught in Nelson Province in a very easily accessed and popular spot! That’s about as much as we could worm out him!

Vern certainly is a master of the ‘early bird’ – he managed to acquire a copy of The Fishing Paper & New Zealand Hunting News before it came off the printing press. Work that one out!

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a look.

“There’s one dad,” said Scott.

“And another,” Uncle Phil pointed.

“Righto guys, put your lines down,” I said.

Within minutes Scot was saying, “Something’s got my line Dad!” I put the torch on and sure enough there was one having a go at his line, and there were about seven or eight more nearby.

One was heading for Phil’s line. I turned the light off and waited.

“He’s having a go,” said Phil.

“Just wait,” I said, “let him take it.”

It’s one of those adrenaline raising experiences when you can’t see what’s around you let alone what’s on the end of the line. You know there’s an eel down there and you so want to turn the light on to see how big or small it is but you don’t, waiting instead to feel that tug, tug, tug on your line, then to feel the pull of a set hook. Only then when you know you’ve got it do you turn the light on.

“I’ve got him,” said Phil.

On went the light and sure enough, he had one. It was about half a metre long and putting up a good fight.

“Why do they spin around like that dad?” Scott asked “That’s how they tear the meat off whatever they are eating so they can swallow it,” I replied.

Once it was up on the bridge, I give a smack across the noggin with a lump of wood and hung it off the bullbar on the front of the truck, and cut its tail off to bleed it out.

As fast as we had attracted them, they disappeared, but that’s the way of eeling I s’pose.

Some people say what a waste of time, all of that effort for one eel, but I reckon it would have been a waste of time me looking out the lounge window at 7pm and saying what a good night for an eel, then sitting back on the sofa and watching TV for the rest of the night.

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It was one of those nights, about 7 o’clock, when I looked out the lounge window and thought, yep, it’s a good night for an eel.

Uncle Phil had just turned up looking for a coffee, “You want to go see if we can catch an eel tonight?” I asked.

“I s’pose,” was the reply, “where we going to go?” he asked “I dunno, perhaps we should try the Styx River.”

I called up the hallway to Scott, “Hey you want to go eeling?”.

“Shhh the baby’s asleep! ” Kelly wasn’t impressed! Oops.

“What are we going to use for bait?” Phil asked “I think we should try some sheep kidneys, and a container of diced beef offcuts.”

We shot to the supermarket and headed straight for the pet food aisle, “We’ll head for a bridge I think”. But others had the same idea because there were three or four other cars already at the spot when we arrived.

“Any luck?” I asked one of the people there.

“Nah not really, we got a small one, but there’s nothing here,” a joker replied.

“What are you using for bait?”

I asked “We wasted a good ruimp steak.”

And they left.

Shining the torch in the water I saw one eel. “Looks like an alright spot,” I said “But those people didn’t see much dad, “said Scott “That’s okay, we’re going to see a few,” I reassured Scott Now one thing I know when eeling is to get scent in the water. The more scent, the more eels, It’s like a freshwater berley.

There was a good bit of blood sloshing round in the pet food container so I tipped it into the water. We got the lines baited up, flicked the torch on and had

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Fishing a non-dressed ‘Fly’

By Frank Cartwright

The above headline is something of an oxymoron. At best a contradiction. How can a fly be termed a fly if it has no dressing? Surely a naked, undressed hook cannot be a termed a fly or even a nymph for that matter. However, it appears that it ain’t necessarily so, as I discovered when fishing a spawning stream in Central Otago‘s Lake District some years ago.

The Lakes District is unparalleled for its scenic beauty and, in addition to its charm, holds some fabulous trout plus lots of feisty little landlocked salmon. Come the first of November, the new fishing season commences for streams that flow into the lakes and these hold rainbow trout migrating upstream to spawn.

Anglers, myself included, target them for great sport where catch and release is the norm.

There is a daily take limit of one fish, but it is rare to find an angler taking advantage of it. I have taken trout but limit it to those that have succumbed to injury, such as bleeding gills, in which case they are destined to die.

To give some idea of the magnitude of spawning

runs in ‘mast’ years, one memorable day back in 1998 I caught and released 35 rainbows and returned two days later to account for a further 51. It was exceptional fishing, which I have never come close to equalling. However, at the start of the following season, exceptionally heavy snowfalls followed by scorching northwesters raised spawning streams by several metres. Violent, raging torrents killed large numbers of trout, significantly raised all lakes and created a civil emergency when the business district of Wanaka was inundated. Just as memorable, on that trip I caught just one very battered trout.

It’s pretty much ‘all or nothing’ fishing mountain streams in late spring.

Most years I rendezvous with three Southland anglers to fish a special stream on opening day. We are great mates and fish as a team each one taking his turn to fish a stretch. My Southland mates are very enterprising guys who somehow manage to haul a large caravan to a lakeside possie that most 4WD drivers 4 lb jack taken from a Lakes District stream

would have passed up as being far too dicey to tackle. They have a really neat setup with all mod cons, including a mini bar to which we invariably gravitate at day’s end.

One year, a member of the team decided to stay behind to fish a glide not far from base to let the rest of us fish our way upstream for the duration of the day. He had twisted an ankle and was nursing it so we left him to take it easy.

Around five o’clock we were returning to base, having had a great day’s sport, and to our surprise found our mate playing a lively trout.

They were obviously there in good numbers and our mate was rapt. After he landed his fish, we watched for several minutes until I interrupted his casting by calling out, ‘Hey! I think you’ve lost your fly!’

Smiling broadly he called back, “I’m not fishing a fly!”

He wasn’t taken seriously until he retrieved his line and displayed what was tied to his tippet.

It was a bare No. 12 Limerick hook with just a few tatters of tying thread dangling from the bend. Not a scrap of feather or other dressing remained. It didn’t seem credible yet we had witnessed him catch a trout with a naked hook - and seeing is believing, right?

To prove beyond a shadow of doubt that his ’fly’ was inducing trout to strike, he handed his rod to me to fish with and not long after I connected with a beautiful four pound rainbow jack, which gave me a good fight before I eased it over the net.

‘There you go, chortled my mate ‘who needs flies?’

Back at base we mulled over the remarkable behaviour of the trout in the area where our mate had fished. Could the trout have mistaken a naked hook for scarce natural food such as stick caddis? Or could it have just been an instinctive, aggressive reaction towards a foreign object interfering with courting rituals in much the same way that salmon snap at lures fished to them?

Our four-man jury is still out on that issue but I guess it only goes to show that you never stop learning when you are fly fishing, and that it pays not to be too dogmatic about anything.

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Wild Man From the Bush

By Chris Maclean Published by Craig Potton Publishing price $49.99 Reviewed by Tony Orman Stag (Neville) Spooner (19171946) was a good keen young man from Carterton in the Wairarapa. In 1935 he shot his first deer in the Tararua Ranges, coincidentally in the Mangaterer-ati-Whakatu where I shot my first deer!

It took Neville two hours to skin and butcher his deer. But by 1937 he had increased his skills immeasurably, to shoot 27 deer in the Eastern Tararua that season. Then he shot a big 18 pointer with a span of over 41 inches; a very fine head for the area and henceforth he became known as Stag.

From an early age, the Spooner children had been encouraged by their parents to draw and it was obvious Stag had natural skills and flair. In his words he was ‘an artist at seven.’ Stag took to writing a diary of trips or more exactly, illustrating his trips with captions underneath.

In 1939 he became a government deer culler, first in the Tararuas and then in the Hokitika catchment on the West Coast. All the time his illustrated diary was kept and his skills and quality of sketches increased. His career as a culler was curtailed in 1941 by the Second World War (1939-45) and, while overseas in the Middle East with his two brothers, his artwork and diaries continued. In addition in letters to home to his family and girlfriend the envelopes were colourfully illustrated and often humorously with his artwork.

The brothers returned from service and in 1946 Stag, just 28-years-old, was back into hunting. In the autumn roar of that year, he headed to Te Anau and the lake head for a camping trip. But his diary of the second day revealed him as feeling ill.

“My old belly was thumping, my head was aching - dizzy and hot.” By the third day his diary entry was brief, recording a “nightmarish night and still very groggy.” In May, a search party found Stag dead in his campsite. It was pneumonia that most likely killed him.

When author Chris Maclean first saw Stag Spooner’s remarkable visual diary he thought it should be immortalized into book form and collaborated with Craig Potton Publishing to produce this fascinating book about a colourful character, a damned good keen man and a talented natural artist.

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Captain’s Log: Beam me up spotty Paua and a Poke From A Shark

The Chatham Islanders boast that the fishing is so good over there, you can get paua without getting your feet wet!

Valentine Croon is a native Chatham Islander, with a finger in every pie and just a touch of the rascal about him. That’s why I was instantly drawn to him, because I like people who have a bit of colour; they add a much-needed richness to the tapestry of life. Val co-owns and manages Hotel Chatham and hosted Daniel and I on our recent visit.

He is astute, street savvy, smart, energetic and very accommodating – even if he does operate on island time.

Toward the end of our stay there, I asked him to dive for paua for me. I would have dived myself but they have great white sharks over there and I fear I’m allergic to them. Besides, I liked Val but not that much that he wasn’t expendable!

“So, do the paua divers worry about the sharks at all?” I asked as we drove down the sloping hill toward the pretty little bay. It seemed an obvious conversation starter.

“Shit yes!” he encapsulated the answer beautifully.

Then he went on to tell me that the great white was essentially a timid creature.

“I do cage dives, but it will never really take off, Crimpy,” he said. “They are so hard to lure in close enough for a decent look and will often hang back on the edge of vision for an hour or more – just circling.

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Having said that, he wasn’t about to take them lightly.

“I have had eight encounters with great whites in my diving career. They often just circle you and you get this prickle on the nape of your neck that lets you know something is stalking you. Then you see them and you never get used to the sight.”

Val said that most of them are just inquisitive, but that you get the odd stroppy bugger.

“What do the stroppy buggers do?” I asked as he was pulling his wetsuit on.

“Come in and bunt you!”

“Oh!” “Yeah, they give you a good thump with their snout and it can roll you!”

“Is it scary?”

“F@#*#K YEAH!” “What do you do?”

“Watch them to see if they’ll come around for a second look!”

“What does it mean if they come around for a second look?”

“That they are either angry or hungry – either way it’s not good.”

“What do you do if they do come back?”

“Walk on water!”

I really enjoyed watching Val diving for paua for me and he didn’t even have to walk on water. Which was good because I came home with heaps – and I didn’t even get my feet wet!

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This months’ unsettled weather has made fishing challenging for some anglers, but that all adds to the fun of fishing doesn’t it?

Over this winter and spring the tarakihi numbers have been low, but that has been made up for by the large numbers of gurnard around, and there have been some really good sizes caught. Through the last weeks of October there have been reports of good numbers of snapper being caught throughout

the bay. Blue cod have not been very exciting this month, with lower numbers being caught, they have possibly been preoccupied with spawning. Whispers of improving catches of whitebait are being heard, plenty of kahawai about in the bay and healthy numbers of snapper and gurnard. Now all we need is the weather to settle down and we should have good fishing for November.

November Trout Fishing

By Rhys Barrier

Last month I wrote about how large floods affect the health of trout fisheries and that it was pleasing to note that neither the Wairau or Motueka rivers got any major floods through them over winter (unlike the Riwaka).

October 2 saw me doing a spot of compliance ranging and fishing in the upper Wangapeka and each pool I visited revealed several large brown trout. I was rewarded with two hookups out of two attempts at fish; something a novice angler (me!) would find close to impossible in this river at the end of summer.

More trout than anglers were encountered, with only three fishermen located, and I promised myself a longer angling trip soon.

Seven days later the heavens opened up and dumped the equivalent of four or fiveyear-return-period floods in all the west bank tributaries of the Motueka River, from the Baton downstream, and the Riwaka also got this deluge. The Upper Motueka catchment and Wangapeka were spared, with less than annual-return-period sized floods. While waiting for Wangapeka flows to return to normal amidst fickle spring weather, the heavens opened up yet again a week later on October 15 and delivered close to an eightyear-return-period flood to the Wangapeka, and a five-year-return-period flood to the Motupiko! In a period of two weeks then, most of the Motueka River catchment has had potential fishery damaging sized floods through it. How damaging they have been we won’t really know until we dive it this summer, but it can’t have been good!

So where to go fishing now while the Motueka settles down? The Rai is reported to be fairly slow at present, but this may be influenced by low average water temperatures at this time of year, given its spring-fed nature. The Wairau has not yet had any very large floods down it, so it could be worth a look - possibly above the Waihopai to avoid the silt laden water coming out of a slip up the Spey. A recent fish salvage below the Branch hydro scheme recovered two wild untagged rainbows (estimated to be two-year-old fish), out of the total of six fish recovered. Similar percentages of yearling rainbows were being recovered at this location last year so it is quite exciting to see this number of rainbows trickling down into the main-stem Wairau where they will be available for the angler this summer.

Let’s hope we get no more floods and settled weather leads to some good Nov/Dec fishing for all.

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By Daryl Crimp

Successful entrepreneurial business couple, Deborah and David Brookes, were both surfing a wave of success in their native UK when an overdue holiday and an eye for an opportunity saw them go ‘Down Under’ – to New Zealand, that is!

While visiting family in New Zealand the couple fell in love with the people, the country and the way of life, so instead of buying souvenirs on their way home, they bought a business – a boat hire business.

It took longer than they expected to wind down their UK operations but now, three years later, they are back and ready to launch into the summer season with enthusiasm and enterprise.

The Diverse Boat Company has evolved from the small backyard business Deborah and David initially bought and brings fresh opportunities to people who otherwise might have been out of reach of boating.

“We were surprised that no one in this region of New Zealand was specialising in dedicated boat hire,” says Deborah, “so we crunched the numbers and saw that there was an opportunity there.”

The couple plan to hire out boats all year round and have recently purchased a fleet of Stabicraft 1650 Fishers, which will form the backbone of the operation.

The hire company is not just aimed at local fishermen, but to anyone who has an interest or desire to go boating. Sound boating knowledge is a requirement.

Those that have no knowledge can be pointed in the right direction for day skipper courses and other training, which is offered all over New Zealand.

“We have a mandatory full briefing on operating the boats before people get near

the water,” says David, “so that people can enjoy their boating experience with utmost confidence and safety.”

He said that their aim is that people have an enjoyable experience and become long and valued customers.

“We get a lot of satisfaction in making people happy,” Deborah says, “and we are also giving people the opportunity of going fishing or boating without the stresses of having to maintain or pay off the boat. It really is an affordable boating option that hasn’t been available on a large scale to New Zealanders before.”

The couple see the opportunity appealing to a wide range of people. It will make boating affordable to those families who aren’t in the position to buy their own boat, be a great opportunity for a few mates to chip in and get out to those big snapper feeding grounds they normally only read about, be a cheap way of testing the water for those who think they may be interested in getting into boating and great for those days when you want to scoot out for a scallop or just enjoy a cruise on the water.

To this end The Diverse Boat Club - full details are on the website. Safe boating week offer: 3 month discount off the annual membership fee of $120 reduced to $90 to the first 100 members to sign up between 3 and 9 November.

It also will open up new playgrounds for people, such as Nelson Lakes National Park and be a great asset to visitors to the area, affording them a view of the region they wouldn’t normally get.

The Brookes have thought of everything, hence the name, The Diverse Boat Co. Ltd. “We want people to be able to enjoy the whole boating experience and our aim is

to take all the fuss and hassle out of the equation,” says Deborah.

To that end, The Diverse Boat Co. offers an extensive range of hire accessories to go with the boating experience, from water skis, knee boards, Bladefish sea scooters, masks and snorkels, and scuba gear, to scallop dredges and fishing tackle.

The company also caters for corporate events and even offers a local drop off service to make that boating experience stress free.

Deborah and Dave are very gregarious by nature, so love people and this is reflected in the company’s commitment to be involved in the community.

“We promote safe boating, so have decided to kick off our launch with a ‘Big Splash’ by promoting a Safe Boating Week in the Richmond Mall from 3 to 9 November, in conjunction with local organisations and clubs,” she said.

They are also running an online competition with over $1,000 worth of prizes, so it is shaping up to be a fun week.

They are also using the opportunity to raise awareness and money for the New Zealand Coastguard Demand for the boats is expected to be high, so the couple urge people to plan ahead for the holidays and enquire about bookings now. If you have family or friends from away coming, or know of visitors to town who might like to enjoy what is magnificent about the region, get in touch with The Diverse Boat Co. now.

“We are launching this new hire company on the crest of the best fishing the Top of the South has seen in fifty years, just another reason you can’t afford not to be on the water this summer!”

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A couple of mates and I headed out into Tasman Bay over Labour Weekend for a snapper fish and while we were hopeful, I never really expected the day to end in the way that it did. We left early but even so, the boat ramp was a hive of activity as half of Nelson decided to launch their boats at the same time.

The 30m line was our initial destination but it produced only a few pannies, so we moved in closer and anchored nearer the 20m line. We got busy getting a berley trail going and set the rods out, using the trusted Black Magic flasher rigs. I was using a combination of squid and pilchard on mine and that’s what did the trick.

The rod buckled and I knew I was in for a good fight, with some serious head-shakes being telegraphed through the line and rod. My heart was in my mouth as I fought to bring it up from 17m. Eventually the fish succumbed and rolled on the surface.

I’d caught big fish before but this was by far my biggest and I was delighted. There was lots of speculation in the boat as to the weight, but we met Crimpy at the jetty and he put it on the scales for us. My first 20lb snapper – YAHOO!

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Hayden’s Sticky Buddy Trumps Trout First Time

By Nick Entwistle

Antony Bell (Antz), Hayden Oliver and myself shot away for three days fishing in the hills, travelling light and only taking the essential supplies (fishing gear and plenty of wine). After a slow day fishing the first day, we began to hit our straps on the second day, spotting and hooking a number of good sized fish. Although the river was slightly cloudy, Antz caught an energetic 4 ¾ pounder from out of a long run on a small Hair and Copper nymph, while I landed a solid 4 ½ pounder from the edge of a good riffle with a stonefly nymph.

We fished further into the hills throughout the day, hooking smaller fish here and there, before we spied a nice trout feeding in the shallows alongside a fast run. Using a caddis nymph, Hayden hooked up, but after a long battle downstream through the rapids, he was busted off. Full of disappointment, and getting a fair ribbing from us for losing the fish, we continued on upstream through some beautiful but difficult fishing country.

When the terrain opened up again we spotted another good sized fish, and being the gentlemen that we are, gave Hayden the chance to redeem himself. After another good hook-up, the result of the ensuing battle ended the same way as with the previous fish, in disappointment. Comments began as to whether the sportsman Hayden, using only a #4 weight rod (having bucked the trend and opted to leave his #5 weight at home), had made the wrong decision that was now costing him fish.

We returned to the hut after a long day and with the loss of two good fish weighing heavy on Hayden’s mind, he got straight to work re-tying and checking all his gear to make sure gear failure wasn’t the issue. In addition, he told us he had tied a prototype nymph, that although untested, he felt confident would yield him results.

As we fished our way back downstream on the third day, Hayden’s

chatty demeanour belied his underlying focus on proving us wrong.

Antz and I both hooked into a couple more good fish, with Hayden opting to wait for the perfect moment to unleash his unnamed secret nymph. His chance finally came when we spotted a solid brown circling in a large backwater, actively taking emerging mayfly nymphs from just below the surface. With a quick setup, he delivered a delicate cast just off to the left of the fish, which immediately turned and nailed the fly. Fish on! A few tense minutes passed as he gained and lost, gained and lost, until finally the fish was in the net and he let out a relieved hoot of excitement. 7 ¼ pounds on the scales, and using light gear with a prototype fly, the look of satisfaction on his face said it all. When quizzed about the name of his new fly, Hayden responded, “It’s called the Sticky Buddy, because it’s your best friend in a sticky situation”. And just to prove it wasn’t a fluke, five minutes later he landed a 5 ½ pounder to back it up.

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Paddling in the wind If you go kayaking then you should expect to encounter wind (of the meteorological kind) at some stage.

One question I often get asked is, “How much wind can I paddle in?” There is no straight forward answer to that question. Are you wanting / needing to paddle into the wind, across it or downwind? What sort of kayak are you using and how fit and strong are you? How confident and how skilled a paddler are you? These will all play a part in deciding what is too windy.

Instead, I recommend going on out on a windy day and getting a feel for what you can handle. Pick a wind direction that has a safe run out and go for a paddle (sea breezes are ideal). Start with 10knots and see how the kayak handles and how you cope with it.

Slowly build up until you reach a wind speed that causes boat handling issues and is too strong to paddle into. Hopefully this will give you a good idea on what your limitations are.

An important skill is being able to judge wind speed, so you can easily make a call on whether to paddle or to wait it out. Unless you want to carry an anemometer to measure wind speed, it is much easier to look around you and look for the effect the wind has on the water. The following gives an idea of what you can expect to see for a given wind speed.

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15-20 knots Small waves and many whitecaps. Spray is beginning to come off the tops of waves.

A useful chart can be downloaded from the Metservice website to learn more about judging wind speed www.metservice.com/ assets/downloads/learning/winds_poster_ web.pdf One thing to take into account is that the wind needs to blow over enough water to create the conditions shown above. If you have an offshore breeze it may look quite calm in close to shore, but further offshore the true effect of the wind will show.

The wind speed is shown in knots and any marine forecast will also use knots, while most land based forecasts will measure wind speed in km/hr. A knot is a nautical mile per hour and 1 knot = 1.85 km/hr.

Whether or not you like paddling in the wind, it is an essential skill to be able to judge the wind speed and then make an appropriate call on what to do given the weather conditions.

I spent a week in Kaikoura during April. Once again I was with my wife and two different friends. Wifey does not fish so her and Liz enjoyed the time scrapbooking and doing what women do while holidaying.

Trev and I spent ours doing what the blokes like best, fishing.

I told Trev we had previously explored new waters, so off we went to find our new 300 metre spot.

We had earlier visited the local sports shop and made our purchase of 32 oz sinkers for the big ones. After my last go at this depth, I found myself a good deal on an electric reel, spooled with 80lb braid, and new rod. I told wifey the doctor had prescribed it for my carpal tunnel!

Trev brings out his salmon rod and 6500 overhead with mono and thinks he will fish with that; I smile to myself thinking, no way. But being the kind soul I am, I offer him my Penn 330GT - at least it is spooled with braid.

I then proceeded to hook up Super Reel onto the battery, bait it up and drop it to the depths.

Down it goes and I settle the rod into a rod holder - time to light a smoke. Two puffs and at 265 metres I can still see the bite on the tip off the rod, so I push a button and up she starts to come. The rod is bending well and the line is tightening on the reel. As this is my first drop of any electric reel, I did not really know what to expect. I did feel a couple of pulls at times but

To both of our surprise, we have a very large thing which sort of resembles a fish. It is dragged on board and we both look at each other and then at the chillybin - no way. I did recognise it for what it was once it was on board. Probably the ugliest, slimiest thing I have witnessed come out of the sea. A ling, when weighed a few hours later, was 22kg. Gee these reels are great. Yes I did let Trev have plenty of turns with it, in fact I found it difficult to wrench it from his grasp.

knew that our friends, the bucket mouth, can do this. I expressed my concerns to Trev as to how hard this type of fishing was. I mean, I did have to push the button on the reel after all, and hang on to the rod. I constantly informed him how far I still had to go. All this while he moaned and struggled to reel in his line.

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MARLBOROUGH SOUNDS

By Ron Prestage

BLUE COD SURVEY UNDERWAY

Hika’s Helpful Hints Hika and sons, Ethan (left) and Boston, with a solid Golden Bay snapper.

This report has been researched by The Coalition of the Combined Clubs of Wellington.

Marlborough Sounds users may have mistaken the recent cod potting activity in the Queen Charlotte and Tory Channel areas as commercial fishing activity, it is not. The National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research Ltd (NIWA), research provider to the Ministry for Primary Industries, commenced the 2013 Marlborough Sounds blue cod survey on 24 September.

There are thirteen research areas (or strata) spread from Port Underwood to the western side of d’Urville Island. These areas are divided into four regions: Cook Strait, d’Urville, Pelorus and Queen Charlotte. The Cook Strait region is the exposed coastal waters on the eastern side of Arapawa Island extending from Cape Komaru southward to include Port Underwood.

This area was not included in the 2007 survey on which Jim Anderton closed the Sounds.

A one-off survey was done in this region in 2008 and it was included in the 2010 survey.

Samples of the blue cod population will be taken from ‘sets’ of nine cod pots at 106 sites throughout the research area, making this the largest

survey ever undertaken in the Sounds. Catch rates, size, age composition, and sex ratio will be compared to previous surveys, to assess changes in abundance and population structure. Blue cod will be dissected to ascertain gender from gonad inspection. This inspection will also indicate what stage the fish are at in their reproductive life cycle and spawning season cycle.

The otolith bone, extracted from the ear, will be set in resin then cut to exposes rings, much like a cut tree trunk, which will be counted to ascertain age. Analysis of the proportions of males and females at different size and age may, give some indication of the effect mortality of returned fished and trauma induced sex change caused, by the slot rule, is having on population structure. Underwater video footage, from cameras towed along contour lines parallel to the shoreline, will be analysed and compared to the results from the potting survey to provide additional information on blue cod size and abundance Following public criticism of the 2007 survey methodology,

the Ministry for Primary Industries introduced ‘random’ sites in addition to the traditional ‘fixed sites’ in 2010. This dual sampling approach will continue this year.

NIWA have completed sampling of the Cook Strait region and most of the Queen Charlotte and will be moving into the Pelorus as the weather permits. Sampling is scheduled to be completed by 6 November, with d’Urville being the last region surveyed.

The survey results will be analysed over the summer and presented to Ministry for Primary Industries, Southern Inshore Scientific Advisory Group on 14 March 2014, at which time the results will be peer reviewed, recommendations and changes made before the initial draft report is presented to the Minister, Nathan Guy. In April 2013 Mr Guy indicated he would review of the current blue cod recreational fishing rules if the fishery was in a healthy state.

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He was brought up in Golden Bay and has always been a keen fisherman.

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The Tarakohe Breakwater is popular with surfcasters targeting snapper. Vehicle access to one side is through the boat ramp barrier, unfortunately at seven dollars a time! Hika mainly uses a two-hook ledger rig and has had a lot of success in water that has been agitated out of clarity by rough conditions.

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North to Alaska

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By Norm Double

We stayed at Painter’s Lodge at Campbell River, which is in Discovery Passage where the salmon congregate before swimming up the rivers. One morning I got up early and teamed up with a fellow traveller, John from Aussie, to go salmon fishing with a guide. John was quite a handful, as he had never even fished before, but I’ve caught a few salmon in my time, coming from Ashburton, so I had an idea what to expect.

The boat was about 20ft long and just over a metre wide, with a 60-horse power motor so could move pretty fast. The sea was rough and we were going hell for leather from one position to another, trolling with large lures.

We caught a number of coho, then John hooked a large king – WOW, what a fight that was; although he was just winching, not like what we do here, bending the rod and winding… lots of fun. It was on this fellow’s bucket list to do, so there was a load of yelling

and yahooing. The fish was landed and he had a great time… ‘The Great White Hunter’, with photos galore.

There are two resident seals that live at the end of the wharf and for good reason: all the trimmings from the salmon being cleaned on the wharf get fed to them. It was fun watching them and would you believe they waited for the best bits from the king salmon; the rest they left for the eagles, which were perched on the tree tops waiting. They have five different types of salmon: the king or chinook, sockeye or red, coho or silver, pink and lastly, the chum, which is used mainly for dog tucker. The king is the most prized.

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Waimakariri Mouth Waimakariri Mouth

An apparition appeared on the ridge where moments earlier the hind had stood, his head canted to one side and eyes full of menace.

By comparison, this was the devil himself; a hugebodied stag with a splendid sweep of antlers carrying more points than a deer deserved and a temper I wanted no truck with.

There was no hesitation; I simply swung the rifle back to my shoulder and fired – to no effect. Why the stag chose to come at me instead of fleeing is a question I didn’t have time to ask myself …

Daryl Crimp (Crimpy) has slung his rifle over boulder-strewn valleys, shingle-scarred peaks, craggy mountains and vegetation-tangled forests for more than forty years and doesn’t plan on stopping. Hunting is more than just a hobby, a pastime and an adventure; it’s a calling and for those of us fortunate enough to hear and answer it early, a life of adventure beckons.

From surviving snow-stinging blizzards in the Southern Alps, challenging roaring stags in Westland, fending off irascible old boars and meeting tahr in testing terrain, to setting his mother’s bedroom curtains on fire – Crimpy isn’t short on adventures to share. From the pen of a master storyteller, relive each hunt in nerve-tingling detail: feel the tension mount as the wind shifts on the nape of your neck, chill to the unseen throaty roar, recoil to the musky smell of rutting stag and squint through the wood smoke as you crumple before the campfire’s glow at the end of the hunt.

Thrilling, entertaining, inspiring, poignant, funny and much more than just a collection of hunts, Something to Aim For is a story about a son and his father – and a father and his son.

It’s the story of a journey, which ends with a beginning.

est A Hunter’s Qu

NOVEMBER 2013 NOVEMBER 2013

The Halcyon Press

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Fri 7 Fri 7 Fri 03:50 0.3 10:10 2.5 16:27 0.3 22:39 2.4 02:58 0.6 09:17 2.5 15:35 0.6 21:46 2.4 02:54 0.3 09:14 2.5 15:31 0.3 21:43 Sat Sat Sat 9 9 9 2.4 8 Fri 02:55 0.3 09:14 2.5 15:30 0.3 21:42 2.4 8 Fri 02:03 0.6 08:21 2.5 14:38 0.6 20:49 2.4 8 Fri 01:59 0.3 08:18 2.5 14:34 0.3 20:46 2.4 04:47 0.3 0.3 10:10 11:07 2.5 2.5 16:27 17:25 0.3 0.3 22:39 23:35 2.4 2.4 03:55 0.6 0.6 09:17 10:14 2.5 2.5 15:35 16:33 0.6 0.6 21:46 22:42 2.4 2.4 03:51 0.3 0.3 09:14 10:11 2.5 2.5 15:31 16:29 0.3 0.3 21:43 22:39 2.4 2.4 Sun 03:50 Sun 02:58 Sun 02:54 10 10 10 9 Sat 9 Sat 9 Sat 05:45 0.3 0.4 11:07 12:04 2.5 2.5 17:25 18:23 0.3 0.3 23:35 2.4 04:53 0.6 0.6 10:14 11:11 2.5 2.5 16:33 17:31 0.6 0.6 22:42 23:39 2.4 2.4 04:49 0.3 0.4 10:11 11:08 2.5 2.5 16:29 17:27 0.3 0.3 22:39 23:36 2.4 2.4 Mon 04:47 Mon 03:55 Mon 03:51 11 Sun 11 Sun 11 Sun 10 10 10 00:32 2.4 06:44 0.4 13:01 2.4 19:19 0.4 05:52 0.6 12:08 2.4 18:27 0.6 05:48 0.4 12:05 2.4 18:23 0.4 Tue Tue Tue 12 12 12 11 Mon 05:45 0.4 12:04 2.5 18:23 0.3 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03:19 2.4 09:34 0.5 15:41 2.3 21:53 Sat Sat Sat 16 16 16 0.4 15 Fri 03:22 2.4 09:36 0.4 15:47 2.3 21:59 0.4 15 Fri 02:29 2.4 08:44 0.6 14:54 2.3 21:07 0.6 15 Fri 02:26 2.4 08:40 0.4 14:51 2.3 21:03 0.4 05:05 2.4 2.4 10:30 11:20 0.5 0.5 16:37 17:25 2.3 2.3 22:49 23:38 0.4 0.4 04:12 2.4 2.4 09:38 10:28 0.7 0.7 15:44 16:32 2.3 2.3 21:57 22:46 0.6 0.6 04:09 2.4 2.4 09:34 10:24 0.5 0.5 15:41 16:29 2.3 2.3 21:53 22:42 0.4 0.4 Sun 04:15 Sun 03:22 Sun 03:19 17 Sat 17 Sat 17 Sat 16 16 16 05:53 2.4 2.4 11:20 12:08 0.5 0.5 17:25 18:12 2.3 2.2 23:38 0.4 05:00 2.4 2.4 10:28 11:16 0.7 0.7 16:32 17:19 2.3 2.2 22:46 23:33 0.6 0.7 04:57 2.4 2.4 10:24 11:12 0.5 0.5 16:29 17:16 2.3 2.2 22:42 23:29 0.4 0.5 Mon 05:05 Mon 04:12 Mon 04:09 18 Sun 18 Sun 18 Sun 17 17 17 00:25 0.5 06:39 2.3 12:53 0.5 18:58 2.2 05:46 2.3 12:01 0.7 18:05 2.2 05:43 2.3 11:57 0.5 18:02 2.2 Tue Tue Tue 19 19 19 18 Mon 05:53 2.4 12:08 0.5 18:12 2.2 18 Mon 05:00 2.4 11:16 0.7 17:19 2.2 23:33 0.7 18 Mon 04:57 2.4 11:12 0.5 17:16 2.2 23:29 0.5 01:10 0.5 0.5 06:39 07:24 2.3 2.3 12:53 13:38 0.5 0.6 18:58 19:45 2.2 2.1 00:18 2.3 0.7 12:01 06:31 0.7 2.3 18:05 12:46 2.2 0.8 18:52 2.1 00:14 2.3 0.5 11:57 06:28 0.5 2.3 18:02 12:42 2.2 0.6 18:49 2.1 Wed 00:25 Wed 05:46 Wed 05:43 20 Tue 20 Tue 20 Tue 19 19 19 01:54 0.5 0.5 07:24 08:08 2.3 2.3 13:38 14:21 0.6 0.6 19:45 20:31 2.1 2.1 01:02 0.7 0.7 06:31 07:15 2.3 2.3 12:46 13:29 0.8 0.8 18:52 19:38 2.1 2.1 00:58 0.5 0.5 06:28 07:12 2.3 2.3 12:42 13:25 0.6 0.6 18:49 19:35 2.1 2.1 Thu 01:10 Thu 00:18 Thu 00:14 21 Wed 21 Wed 21 Wed 20 20 20 22 22 22 01:54 0.6 0.5 08:52 08:08 2.2 2.3 15:05 14:21 0.6 0.6 21:17 20:31 2.1 2.1 01:02 0.8 0.7 07:59 07:15 2.2 2.3 14:13 13:29 0.8 0.8 20:24 19:38 2.1 2.1 00:58 0.6 0.5 07:56 07:12 2.2 2.3 14:09 13:25 0.6 0.6 20:21 19:35 2.1 2.1 Thu 02:37 Thu 01:45 Thu 01:41 21 Fri 21 Fri 21 Fri 03:20 0.6 09:35 2.2 15:49 0.6 22:02 2.0 02:28 0.8 08:42 2.2 14:57 0.8 21:09 2.0 02:24 0.6 08:39 2.2 14:53 0.6 21:06 Sat Sat Sat 23 23 23 2.1 22 Fri 02:37 0.6 08:52 2.2 15:05 0.6 21:17 2.1 22 Fri 01:45 0.8 07:59 2.2 14:13 0.8 20:24 2.1 22 Fri 01:41 0.6 07:56 2.2 14:09 0.6 20:21 2.0 04:03 0.6 0.7 09:35 10:18 2.2 2.2 15:49 16:35 0.6 0.7 22:02 22:46 2.0 2.0 03:11 0.8 0.9 08:42 09:25 2.2 2.2 14:57 15:43 0.8 0.9 21:09 21:53 2.0 2.0 03:07 0.6 0.7 08:39 09:22 2.2 2.2 14:53 15:39 0.6 0.7 21:06 21:50 2.0 2.0 Sun 03:20 Sun 02:28 Sun 02:24 24 Sat 24 Sat 24 Sat 23 23 23 04:48 0.7 0.7 10:18 11:02 2.2 2.1 16:35 17:20 0.7 0.7 22:46 23:30 2.0 2.0 03:56 0.9 0.9 09:25 10:09 2.2 2.1 15:43 16:28 0.9 0.9 21:53 22:37 2.0 2.0 03:52 0.7 0.7 09:22 10:06 2.2 2.1 15:39 16:24 0.7 0.7 21:50 22:34 2.0 2.0 Mon 04:03 Mon 03:11 Mon 03:07 25 Sun 25 Sun 25 Sun 24 24 24 05:34 0.7 11:47 2.1 18:06 0.7 04:42 0.9 10:54 2.1 17:14 0.9 23:22 2.1 04:38 0.7 10:51 2.1 17:10 0.7 23:19 Tue Tue Tue 26 26 26 2.0 25 Mon 04:48 0.7 11:02 2.1 17:20 0.7 23:30 2.0 25 Mon 03:56 0.9 10:09 2.1 16:28 0.9 22:37 2.0 25 Mon 03:52 0.7 10:06 2.1 16:24 0.7 22:34 2.1 00:15 0.7 2.1 11:47 06:22 2.1 0.7 18:06 12:33 0.7 2.1 18:51 0.6 05:30 0.9 0.9 10:54 11:40 2.1 2.1 17:14 17:59 0.9 0.8 23:22 2.1 05:26 0.7 0.7 10:51 11:37 2.1 2.1 17:10 17:55 0.7 0.6 23:19 2.1 Wed 05:34 Wed 04:42 Wed 04:38 27 Tue 27 Tue 27 Tue 26 26 26 01:00 2.1 2.1 06:22 07:10 0.7 0.7 12:33 13:20 2.1 2.1 18:51 19:36 0.6 0.6 00:07 0.9 2.1 11:40 06:18 2.1 0.9 17:59 12:27 0.8 2.1 18:44 0.8 00:04 0.7 2.1 11:37 06:14 2.1 0.7 17:55 12:24 0.6 2.1 18:40 0.6 Thu 00:15 Thu 05:30 Thu 05:26 28 Wed 28 Wed 28 Wed 27 27 27 29 29 29 01:00 2.1 2.1 08:00 07:10 0.6 0.7 14:08 13:20 2.2 2.1 20:22 19:36 0.5 0.6 00:07 2.1 2.1 07:08 06:18 0.8 0.9 13:15 12:27 2.2 2.1 19:30 18:44 0.7 0.8 00:04 2.1 2.1 07:04 06:14 0.6 0.7 13:12 12:24 2.2 2.1 19:26 18:40 0.5 0.6 Thu 01:47 Thu 00:54 Thu 00:51 28 Fri 28 Fri 28 Fri 02:37 2.1 2.2 08:00 08:51 0.6 0.6 14:08 14:57 2.2 2.2 20:22 21:10 0.5 0.5 01:44 2.1 2.2 07:08 07:59 0.8 0.8 13:15 14:04 2.2 2.2 19:30 20:18 0.7 0.7 01:41 2.1 2.2 07:04 07:55 0.6 0.6 13:12 14:01 2.2 2.2 19:26 20:14 0.5 0.5 Sat 01:47 Sat 00:54 Sat 00:51 30 Fri 30 Fri 30 Fri 29 29 29 30 Sat 02:37 2.2 08:51 0.6 14:57 2.2 21:10 0.5 30 Sat 01:44 2.2 07:59 0.8 14:04 2.2 20:18 0.7 30 Sat 01:41 2.2 07:55 0.6 14:01 2.2 20:14 0.5 Tidal data supplied by OceanFun Publishing Ltd www.ofu.co.nz Note: Tides in chronological order. Lower daily depth = low tides. Higher daily depth = high tides.

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Fishing / Hunting & Outdoors Expo Sunday 8 December 2013 marchwood park, Motueka

• Fishing Seminars • Cooking Competitions • Casting Competitions • Face Painting • Kids’ Tattoo Parlour • Geoff Thomas Seminar • Boat Displays • Motors • Prize Giveaways & Much Much More!

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Spearfishing Nelson

Curly Tree Whitebait Company

The Tardis is set up for freediving and is a well known sight around d’Urville Island

Curly Tree Whitebait Company is bringing its NZ famous whitebait patties from the heart of South Westland’s whitebait country to the Motueka Fishing, Hunting & Leisure OUTDOORS EXPO 2013.

Get yourself over to the Curly Tree Whitebait Hut for a freshly cooked whitebait

Mark Roden has been spearfishing for over 40 years. Call into Spearfishing Nelson and check out the full range of spearfishing equipment.

pattie and a bit of a yarn about how much whitebait they don’t catch down in South Westland.

As seen on 2012 Country Calendar, Tony and Moana and the Curly Tree team look forward to serving you up a fresh slice of Kiwiana.

Diverse Boat Company New Venture

Great savings on these awesome boats for one day only.

The Diverse Boat Company proudly presents its new boats for this season.

Sign up on the day and get 12 months boat club membership for the price of 9 months.

The Diverse Boat Company, New Zealand’s largest and only fully dedicated boat hire specialist, operates all year round and offers great discounts for boat club members throughout the year. We have lots of other equipment available to hire with the boats or as individual hire, and an exciting online dive shop.

Check out our special deals: Bed and breakfast, boat and bait.

Enter our online competition starting on 3 November, featuring $1,000 worth of prizes.

Draw to take place on 8 December at the expo.

Leading Electronics Firm at Expo ENL – New Zealand’s Premier Marine Electronics Distributor, having specialised in marine electronics for over 60 years, is excited to be at the expo.

Ali and Catherine will be attending the show, demonstrating the latest products from Furuno, including the latest touch screen systems.

They will be available to answer all your questions, from sounders to radars

Reid Helicopters Wing in to Expo Michael Standish-White will be there all day to talk to you about hunting in the region plus brown trout fishing; he is a gun at both!

Reid Helicopters will also be letting you know about their drop off deals, mountain flights and guided tours. For all that’s helicopter and more, check out Nelson’s premier ‘copter company at the expo – they are the ones with the helicopter!

Plus a free Sounder/ Fish finder with every boat ordered at the expo and more awesome free gifts! Come and see us on the day to learn more.

Nelson’s Number 1 Marine Team 225 Akersten Street, Port Nelson (on the way to the boat ramp) Ph: (03) 548 2448 – FREEPHONE 0800 999 121 – www.totallyboating.co.nz

and everything in between. It is the perfect opportunity for you to explore new groundbreaking technology that will enhance your ability to catch fish and enjoy your time on the water.

Sunday 8 December 2013 - marchwood park, Motueka Mortimer Auto Upholstery Have Expo Covered Mortimer Auto Upholstery offer a range of services that will make your time out on the water more enjoyable. From a wide range of covers, canopies, seat refurbishments, privacy screens, carpet linings and storage nets, they offer it all and more.

Mortimer’s point of difference is the attention to detail given to each project and the fact that they listen to their customers.

Also having a wealth of knowledge that they are happy to share.

Owners, Caleb and Ian, achieve quality workmanship, excellent service and a fair price for all of their clients. Through the gained respect from the public and businesses in the Top of the South, Mortimer

Auto Upholstery are leaders in their field, so hit the water with confidence and give them a call.

Check out their website for a photo gallery of completed work, or send them an email.

You are guaranteed a quick reply. Visit Mortimer at the expo and check out what the boys can do for you.

Come see us

Nifty Boats Nifty Price Didn’t think you could afford a new boat and motor? Think again says Darren from Nifty Boats. At $1499, this makes a very affordable option to get onto the water.

Nifty Boats are ideal for oceans, rivers, lakes and estuaries. They are great for fishing, both salt and freshwater, and also excellent for whitebaiters, hunters, divers, launch or yacht tenders, or for just exploring and camping.

Nifty Boats are rated for up one to three people and can carry up to 225kg in weight.

There are boat and motor options available, with a new 2.5hp four stroke fitted for only $2500. This makes for very affordable boating .

The benefits of a Nifty Boat are the fact that they will fit onto most roof racks, or pack down within minutes into their carry bag.

Weighing only 30kg total, it makes them a great option for caravan and motor home owners.

Colours include, red, yellow, blue, dark grey, light grey and camouflage .

Check out Nifty Boats at the expo.

Dawnbreakers Fishing Club

Come and ask us about our new online fishing competition!

Come and talk to us about our super lube products and the great range of fishing tackle all at great expo prices!!

PLUS we will have some real special deals on electric reels, big game reels, braid and lures.

Don’t miss out!

COME SEE US AT THE EXPO!

www.zeegles.com info@zeegles.co.nz

Worldwide Coverage Outboardcovers.co.nz is a worldwide company that manufactures high quality fitting outboard covers. Imagine buying an outboard cover that fits your outboard motor perfectly; at OCA this is exactly what we do.

We have made over 700 patterns from outboard motors, going as far back as the 1970’s and, of course, have 99% of the latest models covers available today.We add around 20 new patterns a year to our collection, so we are up to date on the latest models and are still always getting patterns for the older models as well.

SPLASH COVERS are vented and can be left on the motor whilst operating at high speeds on the water or being trailered, also at high speeds. FULL COVERS are as the name implies, covering the motor from top to prop.

Each cover is a perfect fit for your motor and made to the shape of the outboard.

COMBO COVERS are both of the covers above. The Splash Cover goes on first then

the Full Cover over that. We offer this package with a HIGH discount compared to buying each of the above individually.

Outboardcovers.co.nz is an online company that has been trading for over 10 years very successfully and has filled thousands of orders. To contact our distributor in New Zealand e-mail Rob on: rob@outboardcovers. co.nz

Wildfoods Competition Attracts Celebrity Chefs & Geoff That’s right, you get the opportunity to test your culinary expertise by entering The Fishing Paper Wildfoods Competition. Simply cook up your favourite Wildfoods recipe and bring it along on the day to have a chance at taking out the title of Master Wild Chef and an awesome prize pack that includes a meal voucher to Hopgoods Restaurant, quality custom chef’s knife and Crimpy’s latest book, Something to Aim For. Entries cost $5 and registration is open from 9.00am to 9.45am, with the judge off at 10.00am.

The judges will be The Mad Chef, Daryl Crimp, fishing personality, Geoff Thomas, and Nelson celebrity chef Kevin Hopgood from the acclaimed Hopgood’s Restaurant.

English trained chef, Kevin Hopgood, specialised in game fare before coming to New Zealand to settle, so will bring a discerning palate to the testing panel. Geoff Thomas likes wine, so will bring the palate of a dead draught horse to the mix, and Crimpy will scoff all whitebait, paua and crayfish. Judging will be a spectator sport, so expect some entertaining reactions when the Mad Chef goes head-to-head with

the Eccentric Pom and The Old Seadog from Jafaland.

“It’ll make Masterchef look like a day at the dentist,” says Crimpy, “You cook it and

by God, we’ll judge it!”

The winning recipes will be featured in The Fishing Paper & New Zealand Hunting News.

hook into some deals – hunt for a bargain Come and check out the latest in fishing innovation!

Activities for the day

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AQUA SINKA™ our everyday ecofriendly, non-toxic lead free fishing sinker can be used as a running sinker or a fixed attachment. Made to leave minimum impact on the environment if lost in use, AQUA SINKA’S™ main component ironsand, along with its other ingredients are non-toxic and safe to handle.

• Kids Fish for a Treat • Casting Competition • Stag Head Toss And heaps more!

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ITM Motueka A&P Show (Incorporating The Fishing Paper’s Fishing & Hunting Expo)

Sunday 8 December from 10am - 4pm Marchwood Park, Motueka $5 per person, $20 family, preschoolers FREE • animals • demonstrations • machinery • competitions • displays • rides • food • vintage • dog trials • axemen • highland dancing • music • trade stands • father christmas • and so much more!

THE BIGGEST EVENT IN TOWN!

The big red AQUA SOAKA™ is a new and revolutionary, eco-friendly, lead free absorbent sinker. It attracts fish to your bait - it’s like having a berley bag on the end of your line.

Drop your AQUA SOAKA™ into our SOAKIT™ flavoured attractant, for around 15mins to absorb a full charge of flavour (around 1/2oz of liquid in a 6oz soaka) Our specially formulated, slow-release flavour, gives off tantalizing scents, to lure fish to your hook.

Check us out at the Abel Tasman Outdoors stand.

Join us at the expo as we launch THREE new products Exotac, Fishgillz and Toaks Outdoor!

We’ll have show specials on all of these plus more!

30% off retail price only at The Fishing Paper & NZ Hunting News Fishing, Hunting and Outdoors Expo.

FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY! SEE YOU THERE!

Distributed by Gearshop 0800 432 774, see the range at the Motueka Expo Hawker Surprise at Hawker Supplies The team at Hawker Supplies Ltd are keen hunters, fishermen, scuba and free divers. Hawker Supplies Ltd is a friendly, born and bred Kiwi team who import quality product direct from factories in bulk, so can offer amazing deals to the consumer. Team Hawker is excited to be a part of the Outdoors Expo in Motueka, and will be bringing a range of products including crossbows, binoculars, spotting scopes, torches, headlamps etc. It’ll be a great day out and made even better once check out what’s on offer at Hawker Supplies!

Pontoon & Plate Boats Custom & Production Boats 3m – 12m Full 3D design and build service Ace Engineering NZ Ltd 42 Factory Road, Brightwater, Nelson, NZ Tel 03 542 3977 • Mob 027 635 2425

www.dnaboats.co.nz

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Seminars for the day

seminars by: Join us on the day for informative omas • Rheem Outdoors with Geoff Th • Dawnbreakers Fishing Club Nelson • Mark Roden from Spearfishing

Mountain Safety Council • Mike Pyatt from New Zealand ng News booth for times.

Visit The Fishing Paper & NZ Hunti

Wildfoods Cooking

Competition

We’re looking for the wildest wild food dish at this year’s expo!

Bring your dish and your recipe to our celebrity judging panel at The Fishing Paper & New Zealand Hunting News stand.

$5 Entry - All ages. Register your dish between 9am - 9:45am.

Tasting will begin at 10am

The winning dish will be published in the January edition of The Fishing Paper & NZ Hunting News 1st Prize Daryl Crimp’s new book “Something To Aim For” Blackbird Valley Hand Forged Crafted Knife Hopgood’s Voucher

Zego Innovation on Display Zego boats now have a demo boat available for sea-trials around Nelson and the South Island, by arrangement. The Zego is a 3m long, asymmetric-hulled catamaran, built of polyethylene (like a kayak) and outboard-powered, with a recommended rating of 15-30hp. They combine easy handling, economy and shallow draft, with amazing stability and sea keeping.

In a chop the ride is smooth, stable and surprisingly dry, while beach and river mouth launching through surf is a breeze.

The Zego is heaven for solo fishing, but will happily carry and fish two.

Whether your thing is whitebaiting, trout or salmon fishing, diving, hunting, snapper, kingfish or even trolling for albacore, at around $16k you owe it to yourself to check

out a Zego.

See www.zego.co.nz and video on YouTube.

View the 40hp demo boat at the Outdoor Expo, see you there.

Enquiries : 021 023 27993 or ditch606@ gmail.com

Come and see our new range and ask about our expo deals!

Waverider Torpedoes Expo Waverider is one of New Zealand’s leading suppliers of electric fishing torpedoes, or kontikis.Waverider Marine Limited, based in Rotorua, has been supplying parts and kontikis, designed and manufactured by its own engineer, for over 10 years. The kontikis are highly popular, especially for those on tight budgets. Waverider products are high quality and affordable.

Kontiki fishing has become popular in New Zealand. Launched from any suitable beach, the kontiki will power out beyond the breakers, towing your fishing line to fishing grounds normally out of reach. Then enjoy a picinic, or a quiet glass or two. You don’t have the expense of owning or running a boat, and you won’t get seasick! Then everyone enjoys the excitement of retrieving the catch, to bring home for dinner.

Waverider have several options: complete kontiki, assembled and ready for the beach,

or DIY kitset.

Waverider also stocks winches, plastic trace rack and supply all kontiki parts.

Waverider Mariner Limited, PO Box 4028, Rotorua Ph 027 6169907, Waverider@xtra.co.nz, or www.waverider. net.nz Come and check out Waverider at the expo.

BAYS BOATING

www.baysboating.co.nz

Limited

Ph 03 528 5200

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An apparition appeared on the ridge where moments earlier the hind had stood, his head canted to one side and eyes full of menace. By comparison, this was the devil himself; a hugebodied stag with a splendid sweep of antlers carrying more points than a deer deserved and a temper I wanted no truck with. There was no hesitation; I simply swung the rifle back to my shoulder and fired – to no effect. Why the stag chose to come at me instead of fleeing is a question I didn’t have time to ask myself …

The perfect gift for the hunter, father, uncle, brother or son.

Something TO AIM FOR

Daryl Crimp (Crimpy) has slung his rifle over boulder-strewn valleys, shingle-scarred peaks, craggy mountains and vegetation-tangled forests for more than forty years and doesn’t plan on stopping. Hunting is more than just a hobby, a pastime and an adventure; it’s a calling and for those of us fortunate enough to hear and answer it early, a life of adventure beckons.

From surviving snow-stinging blizzards in the Southern Alps, challenging roaring stags in Westland, fending off irascible old boars and meeting tahr in testing terrain, to setting his mother’s bedroom curtains on fire – Crimpy isn’t short on adventures to share. From the pen of a master storyteller, relive each hunt in nerve-tingling detail: feel the tension mount as the wind shifts on the nape of your neck, chill to the unseen throaty roar, recoil to the musky smell of rutting stag and squint through the wood smoke as you crumple before the campfire’s glow at the end of the hunt.

Thrilling, entertaining, inspiring, poignant, funny and much more than just a collection of hunts, Something to Aim For is a story about a son and his father – and a father and his son.

It’s the story of a journey, which ends with a beginning.

A Hunter’s Quest Be amused and entertained with this latest book by one of New Zealand’s greatest storytellers, Daryl Crimp for a sneak preview visit

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SUMMER SAFETY GUIDE

THIS COULD JUST SAVE YOUR LIFE

Life preservers float, You don’t.

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MAYDAY Don’t become a statistic

TURBO CHARGE YOUR VHF

Membership of the Nelson Marine Radio Association gives you use of channels 28 and 60 - instantly converting any VHF into a mighty communication tool that reaches into virtually every corner of Tasman and Golden Bays, plus well up and down the West Coast, out into Cook Strait and into Pelorus Sound.

With membership you get:

• Enormous peace of mind - for you and the family • Convenient, easy contact with other members’ boats everywhere - to chat, compare notes, pass on messages.

• Three daily bulletins of weather (5 sea areas), tides, navigation and safety notices • Friendly operators who - within reason - will pass messages to and from onshore contacts • Log-in service for trip and position reports.

Nelson Marine Radio Association - owned and operated by boaties, for boaties - JOIN TODAY! Private members $58; commercial $74 p.a Join your fellow boaties in maintaining this vital facility - Ph 03 528 7629 now.

SUMMER SAFETY GUIDE

Avoid the worst. Put safety first.

GME Launches PLB and EPIRB Bonus Packs in time for Summer GME has prepared some fantastic PLB and EPIRB Bonus Packs in time for the summer boating season, which will be sure to be at the top of many boat owners’ Christmas wish lists.

ability and value to the New Zealand boating community. The development of these bonus packs means we are able to offer our customers even better value and something special for the upcoming holiday period”.

During November and December, GME customers who purchase the popular MT410G will also receive a 15 litre GME dry bag and a spark fire-starter as a bonus.

Total value of the bonus is $69.

Customers who purchase the market leading MT400 and MT406 will receive a bonus 15 litre GME dry bag and a dual function signal light. Total value of this bonus is $75.

Paul Cuff, GME New Zealand’s Sales Manager commented: “GME PLBs and EPIRBs deliver market leading performance, reli-

The PLB and EPIRB bonus packs will be available for a limited period during November and December 2013, or whilst stocks last. These bonus packs won’t last forever, so visit your local GME marine dealer ASAP to make sure you don’t miss out.

Customers seeking additional information on these products can visit www.gme. net.au or contact their favourite GME retailer.

Ocean Star Marine Safety Products Aimex Ltd is proud to be local stockists of the Ocean Star marine safety products that are very competitively priced. We hold a good quantity in our well-appointed showroom, located at 42 Vickerman Street, Port Nelson, which is open from 7.00am to 5.00pm - 5 days a week.

Ocean Star Marine are manufacturers, importers and wholesalers of marine safety equipment for all recreational and commercial marine safety equipment, Solas, Non-solas and MNZ approved products. All Imported products approved by MNZ, EC or Solas have valid certificates attached. Products we import that have MNZ, EC & Solas Approvals include: • Liferafts • FSA Equipment & BA sets • LSA Equipment • Pyrotechnics • Inflatable & Solas Life Jackets • Immersion Suits • All Ship Spares

SERVICE GROUP

AIMEX LTD

OSM hold several exclusive distribution agencies and service authorisations, some of these brands include Sea-Air, Haining, Zhenhua for the territory of New Zealand and Pacific Islands (Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, and Cook Islands). OSM has a key focus on product quality and development with the aim of providing high quality products that represent good value to the marine industry.

OSM also holds the contract to provide training and auditing services for service stations and technicians in the OSM network, along with the New Zealand sales and service for OSM. TML are establishing a New Zealand dealer and service network, and are assisting OSM to establish the dealer network throughout the Oceania region.

Transport and Marine Ltd have a full service station for servicing liferafts at Napier and established service centres in the South Island. Our two technicians have been in this business for many years and have worked on all makes and models of rafts, both in NZ and in the UK. Contact Nick or Gavin 03 548 1439.

• EPIRBs & PLBs • Floating Stretcher • Hydrostatic Release Units (HRU) • Immersion Suits • Lights • Fire Safety • Liferafts • Life Jackets • Lifebouy • Pyrotechnics

42 Vickerman St,Port Nelson 03 548 1439 sales@aimex.co.nz

MAYDAY

WHAT VALUE DO YOU PUT ON LIFE?

Duncan Garner

crucial to bringing New Zealand’s shocking male drowning toll down.

To Help Reduce Boatie Drowning Toll

“Men currently make up 87% of New Zealand’s drowning toll (up from 76% five-years-ago) and powered boat drownings figure prominently. Duncan’s passionate about boating and fishing but he’s also very safety conscious and we’re confident that others will take his lead.

High profile media personality and keen boatie, Duncan Garner, has teamed up with Water Safety New Zealand to help reduce the number of Kiwi ‘blokes in boats’ drowning.

Coastguard Boating Education General Manager Neil Murray says, “The Day Skipper course is the best way of gaining the critical knowledge needed to keep you safe out on the water.”

With an estimated 450,000 recreational boaties nationwide, Duncan - in his new role as a Water Safety New Zealand ambassador - is calling for boaties to make safety a priority on the water this summer.

“It’s a no brainer, if you want to come home to your family at the end of a day out fishing, wear a lifejacket, check the weather, don’t mix booze and boating, and take a couple of forms of communication,” says Duncan.

Duncan, who has been a keen fisherman and boatie for just two years, has signed up to attend a Coastguard Boating Education Day Skipper course and says knowledge is really important.

“I cover so many stories where people could have been so easily saved if they had just worn a life jacket. I think

“Last year, 18 deaths occurred as a result of powered boat incidents, up 80% on the five-year average and a cause for real concern. So far this year there have been five powered boat deaths but this is likely to increase.”

you have to be brain-dead not to wear a life jacket on small craft. Why? Why would you put your life at risk? I’ve been at sea before and my motor cut out a few times and initially I was bloody worried, but I knew I would be okay because I had a lifejacket on. But I didn’t have all the other right equipment. This SERVICE GROUP past two years has been a huge learning curve for me.”

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New Alternative to Creaky Joints Wakefield Pharmacy’s new owner is a very enthusiastic and active fisherman who enjoys reeling in big ones almost as much as he does dispensing sound advice and friendly service. In fact, most weekends, Doug Chapman can be found fishing out in Tasman Bay or whitebaiting from his stand on the Jacob’s River in South Westland.

However, like many of us, his joints are not as flexible as they once were and the years of sport have taken a toll on his knees and ankles, so to make sure he can still get out on the water, he takes glucosamine to help rebuild the cartilage and fish oil to lubricate the joints. Doug has found this to be a great help for his joints and the pain and stiffness have improved to the point that they no longer intrude on his activities.

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Despite my best effort with a map and compass, I could not find a safe route down. I’d spent 10 hours climbing in and out of some very serious bluffs and had not seen the sky for six of those hours due to the thickness of the bush and the steepness of the mountain.

Two hours before dark I found a semi-flat piece of ground about the size of a pool table and considered my options: I was down to my last meal, had no water (but could collect it when it rained), was uninjured, had shelter in the form of an MSR Hubba

Hubba tent (which had saved my life two nights previously). Deciding to hit the button on my PLB was no small thing. A lot of thoughts went through my mind but I knew I was out of options and any further attempt to climb down would result in the situation getting a lot worse, very fast. I fired three shots at 30 second intervals from my rifle to alert my hunting partner on the valley floor and he replied with a single shot confirming that he had heard my shots. This is a pre-PLB safety procedure from the old days.

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The following morning and while still dark, I packed up my equipment and waited to hear the helicopter come back up the valley. It hovered around me, getting within one metre of the scrub and ground, but could not land because of the steepness of the terrain, so I climbed onto the skid and clambered into the cockpit as the helicopter hovered above the ground.

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While lifejacket wear rates appear to have gone up in the last few years, research shows there is still a significant group of experienced boaties and fisherman who have an unshakeable belief that nothing will ever happen to them, or if it does, they will be able to deal with it.

lifejacket is not compulsory under the national maritime rules, but wearing them in boats 6m or less is now obligatory in six regions in New Zealand.

These rules have been introduced by Regional Councils after robust consultation with the boating community in each region.

Evan Walker, Recreational Boating Officer for Environment Canterbury, says, “I have news for this group. Incidents do even happen to capable boaties, and they often happen very very quickly.

Take the swamping of a charter boat in Kaikoura last New Year in relatively good conditions. The boat flooded in a matter of a few minutes, only some of the seven people aboard managed to get into lifejackets in time, and several ended up clinging to a chilly bin.”

At the recent Water Safety Conference, overseas speakers from the US Coastguard and Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) in the UK stated that the one key thing which would reduce boating fatalities in their own countries would be compulsory wearing of lifejackets in small boats.

Two hunters and designers from Wellington have made it their mission to help eliminate hunting accidents after hearing one too many stories of hunters accidentally shooting their mates. David Grove and Michael Scott, founders of Hunter Safety Lab, created a globally unique active warning system for hunters using their custom IRIS (Infrared Retroreflector Identification System) technology.

This story has a happy ending, said Mr Walker. “They were rescued by a nearby boat. But many are not so lucky and this accident could have easily resulted in multiple fatalities.”

Boaties can justifiably be confused over the rules for lifejackets. Wearing a

“I challenge diehard boaties to get in the water and try to put a lifejacket on.

You will find it is very difficult if not impossible. And think how hard it would be if there was a heavy sea and wind, and you were already getting cold,” said Mr Walker.

The simple message is not just that life jackets save lives, but that they should be worn at all times.

The IRIS sensor fits onto a gun and can detect IRIS patches on clothing up to 150 metres away. When an IRIS patch is detected, the sensor instantly warns of danger.

The sensor uses a single AA battery, which gives 100 plus hours of use.

On average, a hunter is killed every nine months in New Zealand, and two-thirds of victims are shot by the person they’re hunting with. The average distance is just 35 metres! Internationally, accident data shows about half the victims are wearing blaze orange when shot. Frequently, the shooter is an experienced, careful hunter who never dreamed it could happen to them.

Michael says IRIS is not a replacement for human judgment, or the number one rule of safe hunting—identify the target beyond doubt—but it can prevent accidents where the hunter is falsely convinced they’ve targeted an animal.

Once the target has been identified and the hunter raises his/her gun to shoot, the IRIS can give a last-second warning if a misidentification has been made.

“It’s like a safety net just before the final act of firing. Over the years we’ve heard nu-

merous stories of close calls, and learned that hunting accidents often aren’t the result of a bad attitude, inexperience, overexcitement or snap-shooting.”

He says psychological factors such as ‘inattentional blindness’ and ‘cognitive illusion’ mean any hunter can be absolutely convinced they’re shooting an animal when they’re not.

Michael says non-hunters can also benefit from IRIS technology, including trampers, field workers and hunting dogs.

Hunter Safety Lab wants to take its IRIS technology to hunting communities around the world and has recently launched an online crowd-funding campaign, with strong interest from the United States.

“To us, IRIS is a combination of the things we love; family, friends, the outdoors, hunting, and technology, and we’re excited about it because we think it’s the biggest innovation in hunter safety since blaze-orange thirty years ago,” says Michael.

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Young Nimrod Bags Trophy

By Daryl Crimp

We ate in silence and washed the food down with cold clear Pitt Island spring water. Daniel and I were on day one of our Pitt Island ram hunt and in a few days it would be his tenth birthday. Until ten, he was still nine and in for a surprise not many kids of that age would dream of.

Brent Mallinson idled his Honda through the forest and just through a ponga archway, another clearing opened up and beckoned us with promises of animals. The grass was lush so tracks that indicated the passage of sheep stood out like current lines on a still ocean. Fresh droppings confirmed our suspicions, so we moved about stealthily in single file, hugging the vegetation edges to soften our outline and movement. To our right, a tall rocky knoll broke free of the ferns and a sentinel sheep stood etched against the skyline. Brent froze and swore under his breath.

We gingerly backtracked and sought an alternative route. It takes only one animal to take flight and that puts the whole flock into top gear.

We emerged a hundred metres lower down, only to discover we weren’t as clever as we thought. The sheep had spooked, a mother with twins, and taken the rest of the mob with her. Daniel spotted sheep in a clearing below us but, again, it was a milky old ewe that was unfit for the table. It seemed every hand Brent played in a bid to deal us a table eater held The Joker.

We slipped unnoticed into the head of another gully but our prospects looked slim. Daniel tugged at my sleeve and nodded towards the creek below. It took a moment for me to register, but tucked under a clump of ponga and partially hidden by the shadows was the grazing form of a black sheep – with thick curly horns.

“Two rams Dad,” Daniel whispered.

Damn that kid has good eyes. Next to the black ram, a dirty white ram was grazing in knee-deep grass. We dropped in behind the bush edge and headed down to check them out. As we sidled out into the open, Brent caught my eye and nodded.

We’d formulated a plan over the phone, should the opportunity present itself, and it wasn’t going to get any better than this. I turned to Daniel and said: “Do you want to shoot a trophy ram?”

I swear his eyes turned as big as saucers and

he struggled to find the words. In the end he just nodded and we dropped to the ground and crawled closer to the rams, hidden from sight initially by the sloping ridge. As we crested a slight knoll that I’d earmarked as a suitable bench to shoot from, the black ram caught our movement and stared fixedly in our direction. The only thing to do was ‘freeze’, and Daniel mirrored my action without the need of instruction. To our advantage, we were both lying flat on our bellies but we still had to remain motionless, because that ol’ ram knew something was amiss. I wasn’t surprised, because we’d crawled to within thirty-three metres of the critters, which put us within their ‘proximity radars’. That’s a phenomenon we refer to as a sixth sense and I am convinced animals are far more acutely attuned to this than we are. Most hunters, at some stage, have had game look up and fix a stare in their direction for no apparent reason and on this occasion, it took ten long drawn out minutes before the ram decided he must have been seeing things and put his head down again to feed.

I wasted no time and motioned Daniel in behind the stock. For the first time in his short hunting career he had a touch of buck fever, betrayed by ragged breathing and a slight case of the shakes.

“Take your time, relax and breathe out slowly,” I said as soothingly as I could.

“Is it loaded – do I have to close the bolt – is it ready?”

“It’s loaded son and ready to shoot,” I answered.

We were real close but that didn’t guarantee a hit, especially when that devil buck fever is conspiring against you, so I went to great pains to slow the situation down and calm the young nimrod.

“Okay, take your time, put the crosshairs on the shoulder and gently squ…”

BOOOM! The ram was poleaxed!

Beautiful.

Daniel worked the bolt, ejected the spent shell, rendered the rifle safe and then said: “Clear!”

I shook his hand and said: “Happy birthday son!”

He smiled and I then realised his eyes had discovered a diamond mine.

“Thanks Dad.”

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We’ve just been pig wrestling, Poss and I, after our dogs had kindly arranged it for us - boar, barberry, bail-up and then bang. And now, with the rough backcountry hut in sight, we’ve got two hours of daytime left till candlepower clocks in.

We could kick back, light the campfire and drink beer. But we’re here and wild deer are here too.

With pig dogs tucked away well fed, with bloodied clothes and pig lice shed, we venture forth with high powered rifles and binoculars and we make like stalkers of fallow and reds.

He goes this way and I go mine. Both utilising the swirling southerly breeze to our favour.

As the shining sun seeks the shelter of the western horizon, the breeze reels like a highland dancer. So many times I’ve stalked these sou’west facing gullies, in every wind and in no wind, and each time a wayward breeze reels and teases. This evening is no different.

Midway down the significant hill a young velvety red pauses on the edge of the bush. Its nostrils tell it that danger lurks but its eyes have yet to back this theory. As I load the 7mm-08 it ducks into cover. Its friend, a velvet spiker, takes its cue from the older animal. But, in its haste, it forgets where it’d crawled out under the derelict farm fence.

Panic sets in and the youngster repeatedly bounces off the taut top wires. There are any number of well-worn crossings lower-down but reason has vacated the stag’s head. Wild eyed, it pauses to look for the human it can smell. The stag never sees me, but feels instead a chesty thud. This shocking heartstopping sensation comes a fraction of a second before it hears a loud bang.

Its aorta severed, the spiker does not yet know it’s dying. It bolts, taking the path of least resistance. It leaps, it falls and all the while its instinct to flee continues. Not until every last muscle quiver has ceased and its arteries are emptied does the stag come to rest. As it does so, 200m down a steep and rubble strewn face, I mutter some bad words and pull ugly faces.

As I teeter-totter in its bloodied wake, down through the knee-high bracken, blackberry tangle and loose rocks - down, down and down - I continue to mutter bad words and wear my smile upside down.

I gut the spiker and he slides further west, as does the sinking sun. I poke his prepped forelegs through his hamstrings to make him into a pack and he slides further. Sprawled awkwardly among the rocks and fern, I shrug into the red deer pack and stagger to my feet. A warm and sticky stream of blood fords its way downward, transferring from its rear end to mine. Oh yay.

The sun has mooched over the horizon but its heat remains.

Hefty deer-pack shouldered, I perspire freely as I sidle and

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Wino? Why No!

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ascend from the rubble-strewn gully. What goes down must come back up.

Drips of perspiration conjoin, forming rivulets as I wobble, top heavy, to the steep ridge. And, as the spiker’s long neck hangs further and further to one side, as its blood and my own perspiration trickle well below my tailbone, I say more of the words ladies shouldn’t say.

Eventually, where the narrow game trail descends through a rock outcrop, I crumple. Deer-pack, rifle and I, we’re down legs, elbows and bloodied butts akimbo. Huge black blowflies hover in anticipation, but they’re out of luck. Before they have time to lick their lips and rub their front feet together, this tangled trio regains forward momentum.

As darkness stealthily approaches I grit my teeth determinedly and stagger onwards. I think to myself out loud, “If only you knew Packer, if only you knew!”

But Packer won't know, can't know, what I’ve put myself through to retrieve this gift of venison. He only knows that I’d said, “The next time I get a deer I’ll grab it for you.”

In exchange, Packer, a workmate, will give me a couple of bottles of wine. Good stuff I hope. If he gives me cheap Chilean carpet cleaner or some merlot I wouldn’t cook a stew in, I’ll rue my kindness.

“So, am I wino?” I ask myself as I stumble, cuss and perspire for two bottles of wine. Is drink my driving force?

Why no, I’m not a wino!

I’m a hunter and my motive is pure. I was here. And there were deer here.

Stalking, shooting and retrieving one prime spiker perfectly rounds out this mild spring evening. Opportunity taken, deer taken – and now I can relax, kick back by the campfire and have a drink - an electrolyte drink - I sure did earn it.

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New Zealand Police has established a Firearms Community Advisory Forum to act in a consultative and advisory capacity to Police.

The purpose of the Forum is to:

Swarovski EL 10 x 42 Binocular Rangefinder

By Daryl Crimp To some extent this review is superfluous because of the unprecedented success of the EL binocular rangefinder combo. Since its arrival in the market place two years ago, the El has become the hottest selling item from Swarovski, ever, and has been on constant back order. CEO of NZ Ammo, the importers of Swarovski, said they are keeping pace with demand now, just, but there is no sign of the popularity waning in the foreseeable future.

And it’s not a cheap item either, selling for around $4,800, so what makes it so popular and does it stand up to the hype?

I had the opportunity of sampling the product for a week earlier this year while hunting fallow in Australia. Conditions ranged from overcast with low light to bright clear days, so I was able to get a feel for the optics in contrasting conditions. The first thing to understand is that this is complex technology and there is no cheap way of doing it so that it is effective and durable. First up, the optics are as you would expect from Swarovski and give crisp, clear images across the spectrum, due to the high light transmission, stated 91% on both sides.

Ergonomically, the binos are well designed and nicely balanced, which results in minimum fatigue over prolonged use. The eye cups offer four adjustment settings, so spectacle wearers

can now enjoy 100% field of view. A feature I liked was the lockable dioptre correction; there’s nothing worse than constantly having to fiddle with adjustments that get knocked or bumped out of focus.

The rangefinder operates on a variety of settings and it is easy to manipulate the menu via the accessible button on the top front housing arch. It features Swaroaim, which is a programme to give the true ballistic reading so that you can shoot with accuracy over greater distances. The focus wheel is large, positive and easy to operate, and the unit nicely balanced for one-handed operation. One drawback was that I couldn’t get the rangefinder to read under about 30-metres, which some would argue is not an issue. However, for bow hunting or rabbit shooting in low light conditions it would be useful.

I found it easy to use in the field and very useful; particularly over open undulating terrain where distances are hard to estimate – I even came to rely on it. The LCD display is adjustable for various light conditions, is precise and easy to read. The small target mask makes ascertaining distances at long range easy and testing show the unit to be very accurate over measured distances.

It’s pricey, but what value do you put on the value of your hunting?

• provide a formal mechanism for representatives from the firearms community to input to the Police on policy relating to the Arms Act 1983 or the Arms Regulations 1992; and

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Paul Clark of New Zealand Ammunition Company Limited was selected by the Police to represent the forum on behalf of industry, in recognition to his broad industry experience. NZ Ammo celebrates 30 years in business this year and Paul says the Police obviously feel as though I have something to contribute. He makes no secret of his progun stance and states that one of his core tenets of life is that ‘we have a right to own firearms and a fundamental right to defend ourselves.’

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Needle in a Haystack

By Dave McDonald

I built my own camper on the back of my Proceed so I could be on the hunting grounds when it counts, damn early.

I headed to the back of Maramarua to try it out. After a yak and a tip-off from a local cocky, I camped by a swamp, where he’d seen a couple of deer the night before.

“There’s an old fence line that runs up into the forest,” he said, “and that’s where they poke through.”

Reds?” I enquired.

“Nah, fallow,” he returned.

That was good news, because I’d never seen fallow there before.

With darkness descending, I had a look around with my barrel-light and picked up a couple of sets of eyes, but they were small, so I cooked tea and retired. My mattress was more comfortable than the forest floor, where I slept last time; no rain and horrible Bigfoots scaring my dog this time!

I awoke to a clear sky, loaded my .270 and found the farmer’s old fence. He was right – there were fallow footprints all right!

I quietly stalked every track for miles and heard something crashing away. I checked my watch to find it only coming up eight o’clock, so I sat and watched a long straight track below me for a while.

Something black appeared about 300m away, just to the side of the track. I wasn’t sure if it was a deer, so ate a choc bar and then I noticed it move.

Zooming the scope up to 12-power, I rested the gun on a log and studied it.

“It’s a flaming deer,” I said aloud.

It was facing me and walking as it fed along under a bank. I put the crosshair on its heart, took a deep breath to steady myself and touched off.

I looked over the top of the scope in time to see it hightail it up the steep bank. Feeding another round in, I dialed the scope back to three-power and slowly made my way toward the deer, texting my boys as I went.

There was blood everywhere, which told me it was a good hit. I found a way into the pines and there it lay – a nice fallow. The deer numbers are very low in this area, but I’d found my needle in a haystack.

It’s late October and the weather at Bruce Bay, South Westland is at its predictable worst. Between showers I spot a bloke with a face of whiskers and we stop to chat. He is one of the old brigade and his hunting ventures are such that I’ve just got to share what he related to me.

Colin’s hunting dates back to the 1950s era when his pride and joy was a well-worn single shot .303 lever action. Getting to school with plans of stalking after class was out, meant leaving his rifle at the local store to be collected after the bus had dropped him off. Deer were plentiful and the number of adults out hunting were far and few between.

Col’s dad was a ‘bush boss’ and frequently he would pop Col onto the roof of his big Hippo logging combo and when a deer or two were spotted, the shot would be taken from the lofty roof of the truck. Colin would then leave his dad and be collected on the return logging run. It was on one such run that Col shot a heavy antlered 12 pointer stag.

Over the years and a hundred valleys and rivers later, the old 303 died having taken toll of many many deer. Such was Colin’s hunting ability that he was given a 6.5cal German hunting rifle. To Colin, it was a dream come true and he became a crack shot, seldom missing deer with his first bullet.

Names of mates gone by, the good mates and the not so

good, rolled of Colin’s tongue and he spoke of the huts tucked away in remote areas that gave ear to yarns true and not so true, around a blazing fire with rain lashing the corrugated iron roof.

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An apparition appeared on the ridge where moments earlier the hind had stood, his head canted to one side and eyes full of menace.

By comparison, this was the devil himself; a hugebodied stag with a splendid sweep of antlers carrying more points than a deer deserved and a temper I wanted no truck with.

There was no hesitation; I simply swung the rifle back to my shoulder and fired – to no effect. Why the stag chose to come at me instead of fleeing is a question I didn’t have time to ask myself …

Daryl Crimp (Crimpy) has slung his rifle over boulder-strewn valleys, shingle-scarred peaks, craggy mountains and vegetation-tangled forests for more than forty years and doesn’t plan on stopping. Hunting is more than just a hobby, a pastime and an adventure; it’s a calling and for those of us fortunate enough to hear and answer it early, a life of adventure beckons.

From surviving snow-stinging blizzards in the Southern Alps, challenging roaring stags in Westland, fending off irascible old boars and meeting tahr in testing terrain, to setting his mother’s bedroom curtains on fire – Crimpy isn’t short on adventures to share. From the pen of a master storyteller, relive each hunt in nerve-tingling detail: feel the tension mount as the wind shifts on the nape of your neck, chill to the unseen throaty roar, recoil to the musky smell of rutting stag and squint through the wood smoke as you crumple before the campfire’s glow at the end of the hunt.

Thrilling, entertaining, inspiring, poignant, funny and much more than just a collection of hunts, Something to Aim For is a story about a son and his father – and a father and his son.

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Despite a slow start to the bait breeding season, enough maggots were produced for my first river outing of the new season, a pre-nationals practice session on the Mangawara Stream near Huntly.

With a spell of heavy rain in the Waikato, the river was running high but still fishable, and fellow ex-pat coarse angling fanatic, Pete Bowden, and myself settled down on a couple of pegs that gave us a bit of shelter from the strong northerly breeze. This was Pete’s first trip to the venue and after snagging his pole rig several times on half a submerged tree, he chose to cast a swimfeeder towards the far bank.

The action wasn’t long in starting and soon a procession of fine rudd, brown goldfish and koi carp were coming to the net.

I found better conditions on the pole line, so stayed with that method and tried two different float set-ups to see which one was working best. My start was much slower, but when I finally tuned everything up, I too was into fish.

When using maggot on this venue it’s common to get nuisance bites from tiny inanga, a native fish of the whitebait family. These are too small to actively target, even for the match angler, but the occasional one manages to squeeze a size 20 hook into its mouth and comes fluttering to the bank like a tiny leaf.

Soon a better bite was struck and the elastic streamed from the pole tip. I called over to Pete, fully expecting a carp to be responsible, but was totally shocked when a 2lb brown trout surfaced at the net. I’ve never encountered a trout in 10 years of fishing this river, which is permanently the colour of coffee and the last place I’d expect a trout to be living. I guess it could have been a sea-run fish moving up from the Waikato River.

To add to the surprise, a short time later, the same thing happened and a second trout was landed. So that made five different species for the day. Then a skinny eel made it six, and the full house was achieved just before we packed up when a chunky catfish put in an appearance, whiskers bristling indignantly as I snapped its mugshot for The Fishing Paper.

One of the pleasures of coarse fishing is not knowing exactly what might pop up next, and in a match fishing situation where every fish in the net counts, it’s important to be able to catch small species using fine lines and tiny hooks but also to land a double figure carp if it gets to the bait first. I’ve certainly had days when the tackle wasn’t properly balanced and I’ve lost a number of good fish, but hopefully I’ll have it all sorted when I go back for the nationals next month.

Eve Sizzling on Salmon

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Eve Black, formerly of Blenheim but now residing in Christchurch, has always been an avid fisher in the Sounds for snapper, but she also hunted trout too. Now she spends a good deal of time following the MacKenzie hydro canals in search of big trout, but more often than not snags these fine eating salmon instead.

This particular salmon was caught on a trip to the canals this time last year. We were fishing the last part of the Ohau canal, around the salmon farm and before the waters finally enter Lake Benmore.

This fine specimen was caught on dusk casting a mix of Z spinners and Tassie devils out in mid water and back up along the water's edge.

We were surrounded by loads of campervan visitors who, after hearing about the breaks in the salmon cage nets, were out looking for an easy meal. This evening the rewards went to the more knowledgeable fisher. Fresh out of the hot smoker, it was beautifully succulent. We enjoyed it with a fresh green salad and hot buttered potatoes, along with a glass of Marlborough Pinot Gris of course.

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Stick Your Oar In Letter to Crimpy Hi Crimpy Hope you are well.

A good catch of rig, fishing from the beach last year.

The fillet hanging from my left arm weighed 14lb.

The backbone was 5ft long.

John Bufton from Hunting & Fishing Christchurch said the fish would have weighed at least 52lb. We really enjoy reading your fishing stories.

David Strachan Ashburton Southern Paua Need Protecting Dear Ed, My wife and I own a farm toward Fortrose from Waipapa Point, which has a 2km coastal boundary. We give permission for people to access this coastline through our property.

Over the summer months,

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email: editor@ thefishingpaper.co.nz on favourable days it is not uncommon to have a minimum of three parties accessing the area through our property and as many again on our southern boundary.

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divers. We ourselves have five daughters and they and their friends use this area most weekends over the summer months.

Our main concern, if this area was to be included in the commercial area, is that this popular recreational area would be lost as a safe paua diving area for families and less experienced divers.

Crimptoon While there is no recorded evidence regarding the amount of recreational use around Waipapa Point, the area is of major importance to not only locals but groups who will ring for a weather report from up to 80km away.

I would also suggest that given the smaller size of the paua, it would be an unfruitful area for commercial activity and that these reefs be preserved for recreational use.

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Fish Out Kids Need Your Help

By Richard Boyden

The new 2013/14 Kids Fishing Ponds season starts Sunday 10 November with other children fishing days on 17 November, 7 December and 15 December.

The 7 December has been set aside for special needs children such as Big Brothers Big Sisters, Kids with Cancer, and Disabled and Children in Wheelchairs. All of these children will have the opportunity to catch a beautiful rainbow trout.

We need your help. Sport Fishing Youth Charitable Trust is hoping some keen individuals, men or women, who love fishing and would like to see children enjoy the same opportunity will assist. It is not an onerous commitment, but in fact very rewarding and enjoyable

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New Zealand Sport Fishing Council gave Alain the honour of being awarded their first ‘grand slam of fishing’. In this easy to read book, Alain details the preparation, planning and perseverance he used to achieve the supreme award for a lifetime of angling in New Zealand waters.

The grand slam is the culmination of catching all of our top ten big game fish. Alain reflects on his efforts showcasing the baits, boats and blokes that enabled him to achieve his goal. His style of writing is conversational with intermittent bursts of technical writing covering topics such as tidal patterns, marine biology, live baits and homemade lures.

Alain’s intense passion with fishing and hunting unfortunately did not bode well for his first marriage. He did however have many fun times.

Brian Spooner can testify to that when he reflects on the occasion Alain slipped an octopus in beside him has he slumbered. Alain recounts: “We waited with bated breath but nothing happened for about five minutes. Then the whole place erupted. It was a great joke, and we still talk about it to this day.”

Alain’s fishing achievements are founded on his thirst for learning and desire to try new things. An example of this is his use of tilted lures.

Alain explains it’s nature’s way.

“The tilted lure resembles a wounded bait fish. It stands out and looks different in the ‘pack’ of lures that you run.”

At the end of the book Alain recounts the story noting that he has saved the best for last. For seven and a half hours Alain battled to catch a 432.2 kilo giant black marlin. Alain describes this rare feat in New Zealand waters as his ultimate trophy.

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“Who has never hindered my love of fishing and hunting and has supported me all the way”. Rachel is Alains’s ultimate trophy.

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In a kitchen whiz, whisk the egg white until stiff and peaks start to form.

Now fold the egg white gently into the whitebait until just mixed.

The whisked egg white contains a lot of air, which creates a light fluffy fritter. To achieve perfect results the eggs must be at room temperature.

Cover the base of a heavy pan with oil and heat over a medium to high heat until the surface shimmers. Shallow fry spoonfuls of whitebait until golden on each side. Serve with mustard and caper dressing.

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The Chair of Seafood New Zealand, Eric Barratt, says exclusive restaurants and retailers in Australia are likely to pay a premium for many seafood species if they are delivered alive rather than frozen. He says there is much technical and negotiation work still ahead to have trade arrangements secured.

“Biosecurity is important for both countries, and Australian scientists and officials will want to assure themselves that there is minimal risk of a new species of fish, or any associated organisms, from New Zealand, establishing themselves in Australia as a result of exports,” Eric Barratt says.

New Zealand already exports live seafood to many parts of the world, with rock lobsters consignments to Hong Kong/ China being the largest single earner. Other seafoods exported live from New Zealand include paua, mussels, clams, oysters and eels.

“For years we haven’t seriously worked on a trans-Tasman live trade,” Eric Barratt says. “We did have green mussels going there in the early days of mussel farming and even some oysters up to the 1990s. But Australia took a precautionary attitude and exports stopped. We feel that technically there are now the tools and trade regime to open up exports again.”

Eric Barratt says the most likely initial exports are bivalves, in particular surf clams. Total Allowable Commercial Catches for surf clams, such as tuatua, were substantially increased earlier this year.

“This sort of seafood can be packed in small consumer packs, which present less of a biosecurity risk, and they can be kept alive quite happily for a long time in those packs,” he says.

“The other prospect is with live fin fish which will be caught in our new Precision Seafood Harvesting system. The fish are landed on board our vessels live. That’s a very exciting prospect for an export industry.”

“There’s a lot of water to flow before we are underway. Apart from the trade protocols, we have a lot of technical work to do before we can transport any volumes of live fin fish, and then we need to market the exports as well. All of this takes time.”

The Chair of the Sydney Fish Market, Graham Turk, is likewise enthusiastic about the prospects of New Zealand live imports into Australia, once any biosecurity issues have been resolved.

“It’s an exciting opportunity. There’s a large and growing market for live seafood of all kinds here,” he says. “Live is the ultimate in freshness and we’d be happy to handle that product as we already do with present seafood exports to Australia from New Zealand.”

Graham Turk predicts a high demand for live seafood from Australia’s Asian communities. “There are also many Asian visitors to Australia, and I’d see restaurants catering to this market with your live seafood to select from.”

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PB went on to star as the little bald guy in the Bennie Hill series and was stunt double for Wilfred Brambell in Steptoe & Sons. He has acted opposite such greats as Dame Judy Dench and Dame Helen Mirren – the two dames were starring at the Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford and PB was doing

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PB is a keen angler himself and stumbled onto The Fishing Paper when looking for cigarette butts in a dumpster at the back of the New Zealand Embassy in London.

“I just love the paper,” he enthused, “because it makes me laugh and I get such joy at looking at all the big fish!”

PB Bennett hopes to tour New Zealand next year with his Theatre Company, Liverish Old Men in Tights, when he brings his production of, ‘I Did it With The Lights On’ to the stage. He is hopeful it will half-fill houses all over the country. He will book all his travel through Mondo when he comes.

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One of the first things you notice when picking up the Citrix is its slick styling and lightweight body design: looks and feels great!

On closer inspection, this ‘big’ little reel has some really cool features not normally found on a bait caster. The first one is its bait clicker and it’s loud! Really loud! I like this a lot as it makes the reel quite versatile for both lure fishing and bait fishing. The second unique feature is its level wind; it tracks both in and out of gear. That’s one thing I’ve never liked with bait casters; the line grating against the stationary level wind. That problem is solved with the Citrex; I like this reel a lot already!

Ok, the drag is massive; it comes with Okuma’s Carbonite drag system giving a huge 11kg of drag! The idea behind this is that you can now fish drag settings of 4, 5 and 6kg all day, everyday without ever having to worry about running out of horse power.

As with most bait casters it has a velocity

control casting system, Located inside the reel.

Okuma’s velocity control is very user friendly and gives a precise setting for ease of casting.

The Citrix has a dual anti reverse system, a real must have on big fish, and the internals are all housed in a rigid die cast aluminium frame and side plates complete with Okuma’s corrosion resistant process. This looks like another winner from Okuma.

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Surprise Elephant Sophie Jobe Kahawai Kisser

Blenheim fishergirl, Kellie Fissenden, has the magic touch when it comes to fishing the Marlborough Sounds, but she learned early on that manicured mitts and stinky fish don’t mix. Kellie is married to good bugger ‘Fizz’, who happily negotiated a contract with his better half, in order to purchase the Kiwi-Craft so they could enjoy the outdoors together. Fizz is CEO of bait-

ing and de-hooking fish, while Kellie does the exciting stuff.

On a winter trip in Grove Arm, Queen Charlotte Sound, they set a setline and were rewarded with this surprise catch. It may look ugly, but fresh elephant fish is a delight to eat and certainly was more welcome than the million spiny dogs that littered the rest of the line. Fizz doesn’t cook… good on yer mate!

By Daryl Crimp The old saying that a family that fishes together… divorces the kids, is true.

Pictured here is 16-year-old Sophie Jobe with her first kawahai of the season. It was caught while trolling the Boulder Bank up to Pepin Island in early October. It obviously was attracted to the boat by her colourful

fingernails and the scent of blood on her breath, and then got distracted by the lure.

Clearly she is a better fisher than either Mum or Dad, or perhaps they simply forgot to pack the Jimmys Bait Bullets in their tackle boxes. Shame on you Jimmy, but well done Sophie – we think you are a winner.

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TIDES OF CHANGE

By Poppa Mike

High Octane History Arrival of the first cars in Nelson more than 100 years ago generated a demand for fuel.

Benzine, as it was known then, was imported into Wellington than transported by scows to Nelson, in drums or smaller 18 litre tins, two to a box. These were then stored in a windowless brick building on Haven Rd, by Guytons Fisheries. This established Nelson as the main distribution centre north of Lyttelton, covering Kaikoura to Westport. Brand names such as Texaco, Big Tree and Vacuum were prominent.

By 1920 the Nelson Harbour Board was thinking into the future as to the provision of better fuel facilities and recognised the need for more flat land. Land along Haven Rd was purchased and adjacent mudflats were filled in, and the first storage tanks were installed

by Shell. The first bulk carrier Murex arrived in Wellington in 1926, followed a year after by the small coastal tanker Paua, to begin distribution to smaller ports.

Paua became a regular visitor to the smaller coastal ports for many years. The first overseas bulk carrier to supply Nelson was MV Henry Dundas in 1938.

By this time ongoing reclamation work had made more space available for other fuel companies. Shell were joined by Vacuum Company, Texas Oil Company (now Caltex), Associated Motorists Petrol Company (Europa) and British Petroleum Company (BP). By 1957 the Nelson storage facilities comprised 20

tanks with a total capacity of 24 million litres, supplied by 6 tanker shipments per year.

Today tanker supplies to Chevron, BP and Z in Nelson are operated by Silver Fern Shipping using their two vessels Torea (pied oyster catcher) and Kakariki (green parrot), and the occasional overseas tankers when seasonal supplies demand. The Kakariki entered service in 1999, a large ‘coastal’ with a deadweight of 46,724 tonnes, capable of carrying millions of litres of several types of fuel. Like most modern tankers she has a double-hull filled with ballast water to protect the tanks in the event of a collision or grounding. A large bow thruster, skewed propeller and complex rudder system allow her to turn on her own length, while the latest in electronics helps ensure her safe operation – a vast improvement on the dangerous manual unloading of the benzine tins and storage on Haven Rd all those years ago.

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By Mark Hubbard

I convinced the family a trip down the West Coast was well overdue.

Due to the rain, most of the rivers were unfishable but I knew one would deliver no matter what! My favourite, the magnificent Arnold River, the only non flood prone waterway I know, so with the rain still falling I donned my raincoat and jumped in the ute.

My wife dropped me at the Stillwater bridge at 9.00am with strict instruction not to return till I text her later in the day.

The first few runs were hampered with a stiff downstream wind making casting a little challenging, therefore a short leader was required. Despite the conditions, two great golden browns were landed and released, making for a good start.

I headed further upstream to where the river splits in two, walked across a bridge onto Killeen Island and followed the larger right fork further up, fishing in between heavy down pours and in typical Arnold fashion, landing several great fish as I went.

A favourite sheltered pool near the top of the island allowed a more in-depth fishing session.

A long feed lane running down the pool always has the fish stacked up, with a few beauties right up in the top eye.

Today was no different although luck was on the fish’s side, as out of the eight fish hooked

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only four were landed for a photo and released.

I headed back, as my raincoat was now starting to let a little bit of moisture in and the thought of a feed from my old local “The Union Hotel” in Greymouth was just too enticing.

Nearing the bridge a text was sent for my taxi to get underway; “K” was the reply I received, confirming booking.

I climbed onto the road as my ride arrived but just had to have one last look in the pool under the bridge.

A good fish was spotted so I informed my wife and kids I wouldn’t be long.

Having marked the position of the fish from above I was confident of a result.

My nymph landed right in the feed lane well ahead of my intended prey, then the indicator twitched, I struck and yes I’m in.

I yelled out to the family to come see the fight but no one came, so not wanting them to miss out and me wanting to show my expertise as a fisherman I rang them; not an easy exercise while battling a brownie.

I landed the fish and held it up for them to see: a beauty with large spotted markings, and as he swam away I hear, “Come on time to go.”

What a great way to end the trip. Best of all the Arnold is open all year round so another trip will be planned soon.

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Orca for Dinner More than one way to skin a cat... fish.

Fishing Uncle SAM With Uncle Bill

By Jay and Carl Quinn

During winter, we went to America to see family and to see how many fish we could catch. First, we went to an aquarium in Chicago and saw thousands of species of fish. Then we went to Indiana to catch fish. The people we fished with were Uncle Bill and each other. It was summer in America, it was baking hot and one day it got to 103 degrees F, wow!

We did a heap of fishing.

We caught heaps of fish.

We fished in three different places: two lakes and one pond. We used rods, a set line and a hand-line rod.

The most successful was the pond because it was stocked full of bass. The things we used to catch the bass were a bobber and a normal single hook with a worm on the end. In the pond we paddled around

in a pedal boat, but at the place we were staying we used a pontoon boat or stood on the dock. We caught catfish, sunfish, bluegill, dogfish, crappy, rock bass, large mouthed bass and two spotted softshelled turtles. The biggest fish was my large mouthed bass which was 15 inches long. When I was fighting my fish the reel fell off and I had to pull the line thru the

eyes by hand. I had to put my rod down and pick it up by its mouth from the water.

Uncle Bill filleted it with an electric knife and Grammy soaked it in beer and fried it up in corn meal.

It was so delicious that it was all gone in a second.

Grammy also cooked our catfish the same way.

It was great and next time I hope I catch a pike and a few carp!

BoB appeared up the drive with something wrapped on a plate.

He said he had been chasing bluenose and he also had taken a couple of gemfish, which he had smoked and here was a nice big piece of one of them. Apparently the piece was only half a fillet, so the fish must have been of considerable size.

However there was something else of considerable size out there that day and that provided the basis for his story.

There he was, 350 metres water depth, gimbal belt in place, a good bend in the rod and the long haul under way. There’s no need to push weights at a gym - you know you’ve had a workout when you’ve brought a good fish from that sort of depth.

If you can remember the Jaws music as the shark approached, start singing it now. A movement caught BoB’s eye - dah daah, dah daah, a pod of Orca with the familiar black and white configuration and flop-over dorsal were homing in on his boat, and coming at speed. These are monstrous beasts, growing up to nine-and-a-half metres in their 50 - 60 year lifespan, can weigh in excess of 5,000 kilograms, or around six tons. To put this into perspective: almost the size of a bus.

Although his Stabi is one of the larger vessels in the range, it was a sobering moment for fisho BoB, as he was surrounded by these well-named carnivorous, killer whales. Sixteen kilometres out to sea is a lonely place to be at a time like this. Something more akin to underwear and laundries than a Minties’ Moment!

He has since spoken to various commercial fishermen who told him the creatures have adapted to the opportunity and will quietly follow a large working vessel, stripping the long lines for a feed, just leaving the lips and hook as a calling card. Ecology in action.

Matey thought he was winning the battle until these things showed up. Orca are intelligent and must have a sense of humour, because three times they dove down, chomped off a bit of his bluenose, and his braid fair screamed off the reel each time.

Killer whales are very organised, hunting in packs to get a feed, so perhaps you could imagine them having a conversation along these lines - “Righto, we’ll have a snack on this bloke's bluenose, then we’ll see if we can get him out of his boat!”

Perhaps its just as well they’ve never been hunted much by humans so don’t have a need to turn the tables.

But you just won’t win with these things. The third time they hit the bluenose, he cut the line... it was time to call it a day.

So, a very good story and some freshly smoked fish of a species I’d not tried before.

A couple of nice elements to add to a Saturday wouldn’t you say?

Thanks BoB.

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Nice House, Nice NBS

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By Reagan Poynter

I was dragged up as a small boy in Westport, the son of a miner who was the son of a miner who was the son of a miner. The great thing about growing up in small town New Zealand is that the Kiwi dream is alive and well.

The emphasis at my school was to get a job you die in, get married, buy a house and have kids! I had successfully avoided most of those things until my mid 30’s, by which time I had finally got sick of my parents reminding me it was time to grow up.

My partner and I had been renting for the last four years and really living pay cheque to pay cheque, so I had no idea how we were going to afford to purchase our own house.

After months of open home visits and numerous bank applications, I had had about enough. One rainy and windy Saturday while I was hunkering down for a day of blissful couch time, I received a text from Juanita saying she wanted me to visit a house she had just seen on TradeMe. After several attempts at making up excuses

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why I shouldn’t go, reluctantly I visited the open home, which was actually quite nice. We visited it again when Juanita returned from work and she fell in love with it and just had to have it.

Knowing we had had several failed attempts at getting finance from several banks, I thought we had no show at purchasing Juanita’s dream home, but decided to visit a mortgage broker to help us with the finance application. Unfortunately for us, the mortgage broker we first visited did us no favours and disappeared for a number of days bringing our deadline for purchase to only a few days.

Panic, tears and many phone calls followed until someone suggested Mark Langdon at Lifetime Group. Mark immediately put on his cape and spandex suit and flew into battle for us!

After many phone calls back and forward and patient vendors, Mark rang me and said, “It’s done.”

We had finance approved and we could purchase our first home!

I must say I was surprised when he said NBS would take on the

finance and I needed to go and see them immediately. The closest branch was Richmond, where I was greeted by the smiling face of Anna Miles, who took me through every aspect of the loan and informed me that we had managed to raise the finance through the Welcome Home Loan Scheme – a fully guaranteed loan scheme through Housing NZ. The Welcome Home Loan Scheme is for first home buyers and it allows you to only have a 10% deposit for your first home. For one borrower you can have earned $80,000 or less (before tax) in the last 12 months. If you are borrowing with one or more other people you can have earned a combined household income of $120,000 or less (before tax) in the last 12 months.

As other banks where just starting to put 20% deposits on home loan lending, NBS and the Welcome Home Loan Scheme was the only way I could ever have afforded to purchase my first house.

Thank you NBS. I have everything to thank you for and would highly recommend anyone looking for a first home purchase not to fret, but to go and talk to NBS about what

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A memorable day’s fishing.

These blue cod were caught off the Canterbury Coast and, for interest, I used venison meat as bait.

Where we fish the quota is six cod per person per day and, unlike the Marlborough Sounds, there is no restriction on length over 30cms.

We have had our Stabicraft 575 boat with 115hp Johnson for over 15 years and are still very pleased with it. As the name suggests it is stable, rides well and is also very serviceable for example lifting crayfish pots and diving.

I think that there is nothing nicer than a day out in the boat when the sea is calm, the sun is shining and the fish are biting.

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Capital Fishing

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Spring Gales Herald Good Times to Come Strong and often gale force north and north west winds for most of October (the met service tells us it has been one of the windiest on record) have signaled a swing toward the arrival of our summer fishing season, and hopefully some great catches to look forward to.

Water temperatures have increased over two degrees and there have been some early reports of good snapper catches coming from the Mana area and further north, like the 9.5kg beauty caught

by Jenifer pictured. Good numbers of red gurnard have also started to appear and are hard to beat as a table fish.

Wind and flooding has made it trying for boaties, but those who have been able to take advantage of the occasional weather windows have been rewarded, especially on the south coast where some good catches of big blue cod and large bass for those who have ventured out wide have been made. Bluenose and groper catches have been patchy over late winter and early spring but may have

Jenifer Harlow with a 20lb snapper caught off Mana on August the 4th.

been due to spawning in deeper water, so hopefully they will be back to appear at more accessible spots shortly, where they will be keen to feed up, put on some condition and eager to take a bait or jig. Many deep water anglers have commented over the last few seasons that the average size of bluenose has plummeted, especially on the more accessible northern end of the Nicholson Trench where fish now average 1.5 - 2kg; down from 3 - 4kg a few years ago. Whether this is cyclic or due to overfishing is not certain, but the Ministry’s good foresight to drop the recreational bag limit from a ridiculous 20 fish per person per day to five and reduce the commercial quota a couple of years ago, is a good move.

Pictured is Peter McMillan with an example typical of the size of bluenose being caught recently - small but tasty! Also pictured is Murray Davis, one of the Capital’s more successful bluenose anglers, with a 20kg plus fish caught earlier this year to prove that the big ones are still out there.

Beach anglers have enjoyed good success with rig and kahawhai. Blue moki have just started to make an appearance on our south and Wairarapa coasts, so would be worth targeting.

For freshwater anglers, wind and flooding have made river

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The Hutt is certainly the jewel in the Capital’s crown as far as accessibility goes, so with quite heavy angler pressure at times, preserving stocks for future generations to enjoy is imperative.

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Murray Davis with a 20kg plus fish caught earlier this year.

Peter McMillan with an example typical of the size of bluenose being caught.

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