Winter Reading

Posted by Mark Roberts on 26/7/2012, 8:40 am
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Gary knew this dude, the original Bill Hohepa, now deceased. This book was published in 1980. You can't buy a cup of coffee for $3.50 nowadays. From Surfcasting in New Zealand From Surfcasting in New Zealand

Re: Winter Reading

Posted by dave on 26/7/2012, 9:33 am, in reply to "Winter Reading"
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I still use his fishermans bible!

Re: Winter Reading

Posted by Rex HB on 27/7/2012, 9:24 pm, in reply to "Re: Winter Reading"
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As I recall it begins with "If you cant catch a snapper by cracking a few pipi's over the mouth of a stream your just not trying?" I think tines had changed even when the reprint came out and I brought it. (Even that was years ago). But yes a bit of a classic from the late John Wilson AKA Bill Hohepa.Kinda set for the 60s and early 70s when fish were actually plentiful though. Might even still have it lol. Somewhere

Re: Winter Reading

Posted by GaryK on 28/7/2012, 8:12 am, in reply to "Re: Winter Reading"
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Probably one of his most memorable writings on sportfishing was in the 70's as we started getting into LBG fishing. His advice was to cast a calfs head from the rocks into deep water! He was a good journalist and certainly inspired many with his fishing writings.

Re: Winter Reading

Posted by ThomasW on 28/7/2012, 11:08 am, in reply to "Re: Winter Reading"
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Did he also write "How to catch fish and where"? Almost none of my local spots which he summaries fishes true to his writings. One spot is Station Creek, now its more commonly called Seaview and I have fished it a lot. "Usually a Productive spot for Snapper and Moki" I have never seen a Snapper or Moki caught there, most people catch dogfish, Red cod, Kahawai, Skate, School Shark and Sevengillers. I mainly catch Rig because I fish predominately fish crabs. I hear of the occasional Snapper being caught there, and caught Moki further down the beach but sad how things have changed in just the last 30 years or so...

Re: Winter Reading

Posted by racepics on 28/7/2012, 12:55 pm, in reply to "Re: Winter Reading"
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For those who are new to this forum (most of us have already seen it) there is a selection of old news paper clippings here so you can see what the fishing in NZ once was.. http://www.surfcaster.co.nz/Newspapers/index.htm http://www.paniasurfcasting.org http://www.surfcaster.co.nz