Chasing Winter Monsters
When the temperature gauge on the display proclaims an ambient temperature of minus 8 and rime ice glistens on every surface, it’s probably time to question one’s sanity.
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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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The Mighty Mot … a tale of a 20-year dream and the friends and family that made it so
Growing up in Colorado, I was fortunate to have ample opportunity to hone my fishing skills on trout; even though we were able to go to New Zealand ...
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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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Kayak Fishing for Big Perch
A few years ago, I changed from being almost totally focused on trout as my freshwater fishing obsession to targeting perch in our local area.
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Trout Spinning Technique – Made Easy
‘Where, what, how and why?’ That old chestnut! I’m pretty sure the first time I heard that, I was at school.
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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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Whitebaiting – The Proposed Changes
“To whitebaiters, many things about whitebait remain a mystery. But one thing they all agree on is the need to monitor and manage the pastime so that the generations to come can also share the camaraderie, the peace and beauty of unspoiled coastal river environments, and most of all the thrill of catching a tasty feed.”
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