Blue Moon Rainbows
A once-in-a-blue-moon event describes the result of a trip to Lake Coleridge with my brother last June.
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Close to Home
During the years my mates and I fished the Tongariro River, our go-to place to crash was the Tongariro Fishing Lodge located in Taupahi Road, Turangi.
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My Home: My Fishing Lodge
Every now and then, my home becomes a ‘fishing lodge’. So, how does a suburban bungalow with three bedrooms, one garage and a lemon tree become a fishing lodge?
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“Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent” – Really?
Lockdowns, skill shortages, intergenerational inequalities. There’s no doubt about it … discontent stalks the land. Our response?
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“If Winter Comes … can spring be far behind?”
It’s obvious that Percy Bysshe Shelley, concluding his poem about the ‘wild west wind’, wasn’t one to long for the opportunities that winter fishing affords ...
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The Trout Revolution
It must be hard for more recent generations to understand, but for much of the previous century when trout were caught, it was deeply engrained in our psyche to kill and eat them.
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Wild and Free – Respecting our salmon and the rivers that support them …
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” So wrote Heraclitus some 2500 years ago.
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Born to be Wild – the natural approach to salmon management
The sea-run Chinook salmon fishery in New Zealand is little more than a hundred years old.
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Mentoring an Enduring Legacy
The trout was lying exactly where my brother had hooked (and lost) it the previous month; but instead of lining it up himself, he generously directed me to a casting position downstream.
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Mentoring the Family
There was a piece of paper sitting by the photocopier. Under the heading ‘Boys’ were three questions: ...
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The Mentoring Cycle
Most of us who hunt or fish can recall the names of those who’ve mentored us. In the same way that we’ve benefitted from their willingness to pass on ...
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