Indholdsfortegnelse for Issue 195 - Summer 2025 i Trout Fisher

At face value, float tubes are pretty laughter-inducing. The sight of me backing into the water wearing waders and diving fins, and with the paraphernalia of float tube, life jacket, rod and net can be quite comical – especially if I trip on a rock while grinning at a camera! I love it, though, as a change from stalking or wading, and there are situations when the float tube gets you to exactly where you need to be. Boats are great, of course – especially with quiet, electric motors – but the float tube is positively sneaky. No need for long casts on many occasions because fish seem to accept the float tube as something natural. I’ll never forget the day I was chipping a cicada pattern, near the trees…

This is a simple preparation, easy and quick to put together, tasty and summery, a dish to share as an appetiser. You can adapt it to your own taste. Ideally, use a shallow serving dish that can be taken from oven to table. A Paella pan is ideal, an oven proof shallow baking or gratin dish good as well. The oven temperature appears high but we want to finish the dish quickly. This recipe would also work well in an outdoor pizza oven. INGREDIENTS 500g Trout fillet cut into thumb sized piecesA good grind of sea salt2 pinches sugarA little chopped dill1 small courgette sliced (145g)1 Small red onion diced (50g)2 cloves garlic crushed12-14 Cherry tomatoes cut into halves if they are large or just use a whole punnet.3 small…

I had a late start to the 2001-2002 season as work became a priority. Always short-staffed and with casual staff unsettling the residents, the staff agreed to work 96 hour fortnights, giving two full days out of fourteen off and never together. It was January 2002 before the Labour Department decided this was against the law. Meanwhile I discovered trademe had some freshwater fishing pages and there were salmon anglers selling old beat up Zed Spinners rather than replating them and I got get these mostly for around a dollar each and bought all that I could. Occasionally bulk lots came up and one lot was 600. These were sold by an angler who had unfortunately become to old to fish, a toolmaker who had made his own die. These…

It was three mornings before I landed a recovering wild fish out on the lake and then another two weeks before landing fish on multiple successive mornings. That’s a typical early season pattern outside the central crater until the smelt come in to spawn. Indeed, Indeed, it always pays to remember that no part of lake outside the optimum habitat range for trout attracts many fish. Smelting is now very close but afterwards, if also tied close to the shore without electronics, I suggest working the thermocline, shown in red dashes on this extract from the limnotrack website, down to where it hits the lake bed with as much concentration as possible and, to stop once you begin to lose concentration. Whatever the time of year and methods used, at…

In the 1860s the new colony of New Zealand set up an "acclimatisation societies" administration which over a century later in 1990, morphed into the current Fish and Game organisation. Ever since then successive governments have tried to take over the administration of trout and salmon fishing and duck and game bird shooting The motives behind some of the government takeover moves might have been monetary, i.e., Fish and Game licence money. But in the last 50 years the clear motive has been to remove another potential obstacle to government policies to exploit resources such as river water for irrigation and for hydro-electric generation, or just to overrule opposition to freshwater pollution. The current coalition government’s Fast Track Approvals Act passed undemocratically under "urgency" has been championed by ministers Shane…