Newsletter June 2014 - Rotorua Anglers Association

Success at Rere Club trip, taken by Larry
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Te Wairoa stream mouth taken from the Tarawera Trail by Neal Hawes
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Fly tying night taken by Larry
EXECUTIVE & COMMITTEE
2013/2014
These are the new office bearers and committee elected at the AGM for the
coming year. Welcome to the newcomers and thanks to the incumbents for
supporting the club once again.
(Area code for Rotorua is 07)
PATRON
PRESIDENT
VICE-PRESIDENT
SECRETARY
MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY
TREASURER
CLUB CAPTAIN
Joe Fleet
Larry Ware
Nigel Wilkinson
Charlotte Wilkinson
Neal Hawes
Wade Fleet
Piet Otto
347 8661
348 0388
349 0336
349 0336
348 1734
345 9913
350 2200
COMMITTEE
Terry Wood
Graham Carter
Dave Parr
Tanya Stern
Wayne Woodward
Simeon Hansen
WEBSITE WEBMASTER
NEWSLETTER EDITOR
TROPHY MASTER
SUB-COMMITTEES (conveners)
KIDS’ FISHOUT
A-Z SCHOOL
ACTIVITIES (Trips)
(Flytying)
SOCIAL
LIBRARY
BUILDING
Eddie Bowman
Roger Bowden
Neal Hawes
3485652
348 7816
3481734
Terry Wood
Wade Fleet
Larry Ware
Roger Bowden
Piet Otto
Tanya Stern
Terry Wood
345 5587
345 9913
3480388
3487816
3502200
357 2573
345 5587
345 5587
021 02600437
3483255
357 2573
357 2573
347 0702
Please feel free to contact any of the above if you have any queries, comments or
items you may like to discuss. Our email address is rotoruaanglers@gmail.com
Visit our website on www.rotoruaanglers.org.nz
Remember, Roger Bowden is always grateful for any contributions to the magazine.
(email rogerbritta@orcon.net.nz or post to 3 Rostrevor Place)
Thank you for your contribution to our club and we hope you have a very successful
season.
Larry Ware
President
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Well it is getting colder by the day , we may not have had a frost in town yet
but I am sure there have been some outside the city limits.
We offer our condolences to Peter Teague whose son has tragically passed
away and we also note the passing of Hughie McDowell -best known for his
beginners Fly Tying book.
We are ramping up for the winter season and have our first Pot Luck dinner
at the end of the month -we have given this one a bit of a theme -game foodso please shoot a deer, wild pig , or duck , or catch a trout , snapper etc and
bring it along to share .
We have had a successful club trip to Rerewhakaaitu , a new A-Z start, and
tonight (as I write this) a trip to Okataina / Rotoiti.
A working bee is being held on Sunday 25th to start on replacing the back
wall so any experienced builders/handymen/women your help would be
most appreciated, a BBQ lunch will be provided. I will be away this Friday
Club night as I will be attending my Son's Graduation at the Police College in
Porirua so please sort yourselves out and get things organised so Sunday goes
off without a hitch -Dave Parr is overseeing the construction / Destruction !!
Please, all of you who have offered to help with the Friday Night bar Duties
double check the calendar and make sure you are aware when you are on ,
and remember you will have a committee member to back you up -as long as
they remember as well !!!
Check the trips calendar also as we have some more away trips coming up Coromandel sea fishing and a week at the Tongariro.
See you at the pot luck dinner
cheers Larry
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Hughie McDowell 1936 - 2014
Hughie passed away on Friday May 16 after a long battle with cancer.
Hughie occupied a big place in New Zealand's Fishing Fraternity and was a
respected Fisherman, Fly Tyer, and Guide with a World Wide Reputation.
To the majority he is best known for his book " the 10 thumbed guide to fly
tying" and there would not be too many fishing libraries that does not have a
copy of it. He told me that was the most reprinted book that his Publisher had
in its catalogue after them telling him it would not be a very popular book.
I first met Hughie 20+ years ago at Batchelors Photo Centre and would visit
him most Wednesday evenings for a coffee and chat at his lakeside house
just along from the Waititi Stream. I would go thru his amazing library
checking out his "first Editions' of famous fishing books and he also had so
many signed copies from the "who's who" of the world of fishing.
Hughie broke his ties with the RAA because he felt he was betrayed by the
club over the fight to preserve the Wheo River from the Rangataikei / Wheo
power scheme. This was before my time so I cannot comment on it. He was I
believe, along with Terry Duval, a founding member of the NZ Fly Fishing
team.
Hughie lived alone and I made a point of always inviting him to my birthday
and also Christmas at my home - there was an ulterior motive because he
would always give us a box of his flies , I also have his personal prototype
"Ugly Stick Saltwater Fly Rod -10wt." which he developed for the Rod
Manufacturer.
Hughies flies were exquisite, when he tied his presentation flies that he sold
to order only, he said it could easily take him 1-2 hours to tie one fly to his
requisite standard .
I spent some great times on L. Aniwhenua, Flaxy, and the Rangataikei with
Hughie and will always treasure the fact I could call him a friend.
Larry
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Subject: Fw: My new business venture, I'm coming out of retirement!!
I've decided that this meaningless life of golf and fishing is not for me. The daily
chore of 18 holes of golf, accompanied by merciless taunts from my buddies,
followed by beer and laughter in the lounge, could potentially be bad for my health
and self esteem. And at the lake... taking the daily risk of falling overboard or slicing
a digit off while filleting some poor helpless 5 lb. Rainbow Trout... well, that just
can't be good for an old guy.... it's far too risky.
So I've decided to come out of retirement and lead a life of purpose, of challenge, of
meaningful results. I've purchased and kitted out a corporate vehicle -- my means of
conveyance and the workhorse of my new handy-man endeavours.
I'll be accepting applications for franchises effective immediately.
Undoubtedly there'll be others wanting to get in on the ground floor of this expanding
enterprise.
You'd be a good fit, I look forward to seeing your application in the mail soon!
Managing Director
Lazy Bastards Inc.
Dear Sir,
I wish to apply for a franchise in your company.
I feel I would be eminently suitable for this position, as I have recently retired and
am a renowned Lazy Bugger. So lazy in fact that I have even had a trout fly named
after me. Just as the Woolly Bugger was designed by and named after a guy with an
Afro haircut, the Lazy Bugger was designed by and named after me – as lazy a lazy
bugger as you’re ever likely to see.
Please send details of franchise conditions and cost of set-up, and I’ll see if I can
muster the energy to apply.
Yours sincerely
Neal (LB) Hawes
Many thanks for your application, sadly I must advise you are grossly over qualified
therefore your application will not6 be considered further.
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On the boots of fishermen (Didymo aka Rocksnot)
The onset of D. geminata blooms in New Zealand in 2004 was widely attributed to
the incursion of a new species (Kilroy 2004). This suggestion reignited questions
about the cause of blooms on Vancouver Island 15 years previously. Was the
explanation for blooms that resulted from an introduction in New Zealand also
applicable to Vancouver Island? Didymosphenia geminata was a native species in
British Columbia, but could a new bloom-forming variant have been introduced in
the 1990s? Might this be the reason we had been unable to make sense of the blooms
in the northern hemisphere?
On Vancouver Island, the British Columbia Steelhead Harvest Questionnaire
database was used to quantify angler activity on selected rivers between 1968 and
2003 and revealed a three- to fourfold increase in angler days on
some rivers in the mid-1980s leading up to the D. geminate blooms. Increased river
use coincided with the commercial introduction of felt-soled waders, the expansion
of the guided fishing industry, and an increase in the number of visiting anglers
fishing the rivers of Vancouver Island. The analysis of these data entitled, ‘On the
Boots of Fishermen: a History of Didymo Blooms on Vancouver Island, BC’ was
published in Fisheries (Bothwell et al. 2009), with the statement: ….all of the evidence
suggesting that recreational fishermen have played a role in the movement of Didymo
regionally and globally is circumstantial. Nevertheless, the publication was widely
accepted as an important step in initiating management actions aimed at controlling
the spread of aquatic invasive species. Yet, the explanation for the spatial and
temporal occurrence of blooms of D. geminata as the result of human vectors was
based on coincidental timing.
The Didymo trilogy
Early in the incursion of D. geminata into New Zealand, it became clear that bloom
formation must involve more than the simple introduction of cells into new areas.
The observation that blooms did not form in spring-fed creeks discharging into D.
geminata-affected rivers on the South Island, in spite of repeated introduction of
cells, was demonstrated multiple times (Sutherland et al. 2007). To address
experimentally the role of environmental factors (light
intensity and nutrient concentration of N and P) leading to bloom formation, a flume
apparatus was built on the bank of the D. geminata-affected Waitaki River, adjacent
to the confluence with the D. geminata-free, Otiake Spring
Creek. This facility was utilized in a collaborative research project between
Environment Canada (EC) and (NIWA) during 2008–2010. Results from the NIWA–
EC studies were published (Bothwell & Kilroy 2011, We refer to these three papers
as the ‘Didymo Trilogy’ because each paper contains solutions to pieces of the
puzzle and, collectively, they provide the evidence that the proximate cause of D.
geminata blooms in rivers is low concentration of P.
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We outline the ‘Didymo Trilogy’ as three chapters in our understanding.
Chapter 1: phosphorus limitation (Bothwell & Kilroy 2011)
The summary points from this paper are: (1) The frequency of dividing cells (FDC)
is used as a metric for P-limited growth rates in D. geminata.
FDC has been used to measure aquatic microbial growth for decades, but its
application to D. geminata was key to understanding the blooms.
(2) Exposed to high concentrations of P, D. geminate cells divide rapidly for short
periods, but colonies and blooms eventually dissipate.
(3) Experiments conducted year-round identified a continuing high level of Plimitation in D. geminate in situ while cells remained dominant in the
Waitaki River.
(4) FDC was the same whether or not cells were associated with colonies and we
concluded that D. geminata cells do not necessarily access P from
within benthic mats.
Chapter 2: environmental control of stalk length
The summary points from this paper are:
(1) When cell division rates are low, the much longer stalks characteristic of blooms
are produced. Such diversion of photosynthetically fixed carbon into
extracellular compounds under conditions of nutrient limitation is characteristic of
some diatoms (Myklestad 1995).
(2) Higher light conditions also result in longer stalks.
Chapter 3: relation of cell growth rates and bloom formation to dissolved
phosphorus concentrations (Kilroy & Bothwell 2012)
The summary points from this paper are:
(1) Synoptic surveys of rivers on South Island, New Zealand show that the
distribution of D. geminate blooms can be predicted from the SRP concentration.
Blooms do not form if the mean SRP concentration over a 24-month period
(monthly sampling) exceeds ∼2 ppb. A direct positive relationship exists
between ambient SRP concentration in the water and D. geminate FDC whereas
an inverse relationship exists between FDC and D. geminata biovolume,
measured as a standing crop index.
(2) This is also a likely explanation for the absence of D. geminate on the North
Island of New Zealand (Kilroy & Unwin 2011, Rost et al. 2011) where nearly all
rivers have naturally high SRP, >2 ppb, shown to prevent bloom establishment
in rivers on the South Island (Kilroy & Bothwell 2012).
(3) (3) A transect across a braid in the Waitaki River just below a spring tributary
indicated that the SRP concentration that inhibits blooms might even be lower
(<1 ppb) than indicated in the synoptic survey of South Island.
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—LINES THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT—
WHAT A NIGHT FISHERMAN NEEDS IS A BUMP ON HIS (OR HERI) FLY
LINE—a bump that he can FEEL as the line is retrieved through the fingers, a
bump that tells him that there are 30 feet of line left beyond his rod tip. 30
feet, because that is the right amount—weight— of line to pick up and load
the rod and recast most easily.
WE KNOW THIS IS THE RIGHT LENGTH BECAUSE the manufacturers
have weighed that first 30 feet to match it to the rod: the first 30 feet of an 8weight line matches an 8-weight rod. They have done the arithmetic so that
the fisherman does not need to know that the first 30 feet of an 8-weight line
actually weighs 210 grains, a 9-weight line 240 grains, etc.
MAKING SUCH A BUMP IS EASY-PEASY— Get a tube of “UV Knot-Sense”
at your local fishing store. Put a generous round drop on the line (you want
to feel it) 30 feet from the tip + 8 more feet, 8 more because your hand
feeling the retrieved line is on the handle of the rod about 8 feet from the tip—
so, 38 FEET FROM THE TIP. The liquid sets quickly in the UV rays of the
sun, or with an ultra-violet torch also found in fishing stores. Take note, don’t
look directly at it, to protect your eyes.
WHILE YOU’RE AT IT, MAKE TWO SUCH BUMPS, about 6 inches apart, so
that when you feel them you know for sure they are your bumps and not a
piece of weed, etc.
THESE BUMPS DO NOT INTERFERE WITH THE CAST, in fact they sail
out through the guides quite easily. And they make a slight “click” when
retrieved back through the guides, announcing the magic 30 foot mark (30+8,
that is) is approaching.
YOU WILL LIKE THESE BUMPS DURING THE DAY AS WELL—say you
are retrieving your fly and see a fish move nearby. You want to pick up
a.s.a.p. whilst keeping your eye on the rise, but you don’t know if you have 30
feet of line in the water, or 45 feet, or what. You do know if you pick up too
much line it will make for a sloppy, inaccurate cast. And you know you can
make a few fast strips until you feel those tell-tale bumps, just right for lift-off
and that quick, perfect cast. You want that fish!
IF YOU WANT TO “CUSTOMIZE” YOUR LINE BUMPS: You may want a
little more or a little less than 30 feet of line to pick up, better suited to your
particular casting style, rod, and line. No problem: go out on the lawn or the
lake, do some casting, decide how much line pick-up is right for you. If you
have already made bumps at 30 + 8 feet, you can actually flick off the bumps
you have already made with your thumbnail. Then set up new bumps
accordingly.
—PHIL TRAUTMANN
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Schedule of Events June 2014
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2nd -Queens Birthday holiday
4th -Committee meeting
9th -Fly tying— Glo bugs
13th -Full Moon
14/15th –Lake Rerewhakaaitu
20th -Magazine cut off
27th—Potluck Dinner at Clubrooms
27th—New Moon
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Friday nights—club nights 5-7pm.
Input from members urgently required to keep magazine going!!!!
COME INTO STORE TO WEIGH YOUR TROPHY RAINBOW TROUT
(ANYTHING OVER 3.5KG) THIS WINTER SEASON AND GO IN THE
DRAW TO WIN AN AIRFLO BANDIT FLYFISHING COMBO VALUED
AT $500
Darryn and Janine Simpson
Check out the website for details of the Fish of the month competition !
10% RAA member discount with membership card.
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It’s time to affect change in our fishery
By Graham Carter
Many fishermen and women have heard the stance that Labour and National
Government have taken on the commercial fisheries rape and pillage of our NZ
Fisheries that have affected finfish and shellfish recreational fishing for the last
several decades.
Many fishers have seen the recreational catch limits reduced and size increased while
the commercial sector has not been affected, yet with declining shellfish and finfish
numbers of many species like gurnard, hapuka, pink mau mau and john dory, paua
and crayfish, in many areas around NZ, as per charter fishing reports.
The National Government is hell bent on increasing the exporting of fish to the
detriment of our recreational fishing, and all under the guise of saving our
economy.
Time and time again fishers and their representative organizations like LegaSea have
cried foul yet the people you and I elect totally ignore us.
Families going camping over the summer months struggle to get a feed as they watch
the trawlers hammering the beaches and throwing the discarded fish overboard in an
attempt to hide the disgrace.
We all have the choice to catch and release, recreational, longliners, commercial paua
and scallop fishers but trawlers don’t have that liberty, they have to haul in
everything in their net of which a lot is mushed and discarded. This is what has to be
stopped and now is the time.
The questions below are directed at the failures and behaviours of fishing companies.
I suggest the root of the problem is in the failure of successive governments to
implement the quota system and Fisheries Act, as it was intended back in 1986. The
introduction of the QMS has arrested, to some extent, the rapid decline of inshore
fisheries but it has now degenerated into a low-cost system where absent quota
owners squeeze the life out of the actual fishermen who have to go hard to make a
buck.
Of concern is the disconnection between the science and what is happening out on
the water. The science is being managed to produce results that do not match reality.
Public concerns are ignored or minimized in the process of extracting the most fish
possible for the least cost.
Instead of managing for depletion we ought to be managing for abundance. Then NZ
could become the fishing mecca attracting tourist dollars and revenue not previously
seen in this country.
The time has come people to stand up and be counted. The Fishing and Outdoors
newspaper has put a list of questions to every fisheries spokesperson and we will
print their responses over the next several issues so that you can choose which party
you will give your party vote to in order to effect change in the fishing practices used
by Fishing companies. Feel free to ask your local Member of Parliament where he
sits with these questions!
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1.What is your parties plan regarding the NZ fishery issues?
2. Does your party have a policy on alleviating the waste from the inshore fishing
trawlers? And if so what does your party plan to do about it and when?
3. Currently it is difficult to purchase top quality fresh fish on the NZ Market, what
do you and your party plan to do to get better quality fish product on NZ shelves?
For example the majority of fish sold in NZ Fish Shops and Supermarkets is export
reject as the majority of fish is exported.
4. What do you and your party plan to do to even out the fish size differences
between the recreational and commercial catch sizes?
5. Will you and your party be able to establish commercial free boundaries around
the NZ coastline, i.e: a ban of commercial fishing within two kilometres from all
camping grounds including DoC Camping areas.
6. What does your party have in mind to protect endangered species i.e: Maui
dolphin and sea lions?
7. Currently some species like Gurnard, Hapuka, John Dory and Pink Maumau are in
severe decline due to commercial overfishing, around the SNA 1 area, what do you
and your party propose to do about this?
8. How would your party protect the large recreational need of Snapper one (SNA1)
area?
9. Does your party have plans to change any commercial fishing methods regarding
the high discard factor?
10. Would your party consider the separation of the inshore and off shore fishery?
11. Would your party support a total commercial fishing ban in the Hauraki Gulf, all
Harbours and Sounds areas?
12. Would your party support a total ban on all inshore trawling, out to a 12 n/Mile
limit?
13. Would your party change the statutes and current Fisheries law to stop the
Commercial Fishing Companies taking the Government to court when any fishing
practice is introduced that the Commercial Companies disagree with?
14.Currently the National Government plan to implement the use of cameras and
LPS systems on Commercial boats in the near future. Would your party implement
the use of these immediately?
15.The National Government plan to implement a proportionalized quota or Total
Allowable Recreational Catch. Would you and your party oppose this?
16.What steps would you and your party undertake to ensure that this proportional
catch is not introduced?
17.If you get elected in the next elections or form an alliance with the government,
what will your Party demand and stick with, regarding our fishery in order (that
would entice voters to give your party their Party Vote), to form a government with
regards detrimental fishing practices used by Commercial Fishing companies?
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18.Our inshore fisheries need more stringent protection from overfishing and
detrimental fishing practices by Fishing Companies. What will your Party be
prepared to do to put constraints on that and how?
19.It is easier for the Fishing Companies to target a fish species when fishing
offshore, but extremely difficult for them to target a specific species in the inshore
fishery. What will your Party be prepared to do to ensure the inshore fishery does
not continue to be decimated through overfishing and detrimental fishing practices by
Fishing Companies and how will they go about ensuring the next government
actually puts regulations in place to protect the inshore fishery?
20.We want to support an MP who actually supports sorting out the commercial
fishing issues and will hound the government and MPI to ensure laws are put in place
to protect the inshore fishery. What is your party prepared to do and how will they go
about it?
21.For every hour spent fishing today, in boats bristling with the latest fish-finding
electronics, fishers land a mere 6% of what they did 120 years ago. Put another way,
commercial fishers today have to work 17 times harder to get the same catch as
people did in the 19th century. And the reason for this startling state of affairs is
straightforward: they have caught so much fish in our own waters over the past 100
years, there is little left for anyone today. Some species hover at the edge of
extinction. Our seas, and the floor below them, have been stripped of their riches. It
is a dispiriting, unsettling picture and for years scientists, ecologists and others have
been pressing the government for action. Many of our fisheries are on the point of
collapse and our coastal waters are in a state of grievous disrepair. Yet the
government has decided that it is simply not worth taking meaningful action to put
right these very severe problems. What is your party prepared to do to reverse the
practices used by the Fishing Companies?
22.There are many species that have been hammered over the years and no-one
knows where they are in terms of their stock size because there is no decent science
allocated to those fisheries. Science is often based on computer models full of
assumptions piled on top of other assumptions to come out with a stock size
estimation that has no riders indicating to the Minister that the science is flimsy at
best (or fairy tales at worst). Currently the science put forward that the MPI are
taking notice of and using to form the basis of there policies is funded and supported
by the Government and Fishing companies. Would you and your party support the
use of independent science?
Graham Carter, Editor; Fishing and Outdoors newspaper; 021 02600437; PO Box
10580, Te Rapa; Hamilton 3240; Check out the newspaper online at
www.fishingoutdoors.org - www.facebook.com/fishing.outdoorsnewspaper
We are supporting LegaSea - are you.
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O’Keefes Fishing Depot 1113 Eruera St.
John McCarron
53 Rimuvale St
Roger Bowden
3 Rostrevor Place
Terry Wood
6A Holden Avenue
Eddie Bowman
34 Westbourne Ave
Outdoorsman Headquarters Tarawera Road
3460178
3461967
3487816
3455587
3485652
3459333
IF POSSIBLE PLEASE PHONE BEFOREHAND
FISH OF THE MONTH FOR March was Bevan Lash with a rainbow
caught at Lake Rotomahana which had an outstanding condition factor of
73.38
Bevan wins a $10 voucher sponsored by Hamills
Don’t forget to weigh in your fish!
Weighmasters are listed above or you can weigh your fish on registered
scales with a witness.
Scales can be checked and registered at the Clubrooms on Friday nights.
You can even weigh and release your fish.
Sponsors of ’Trout of the Month’
Come in and meet our Manager
Brad Hill who is also our
Surfcasting specialist.
10% RAA member discount with membership card, excluding items that are already
on a special price.
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Fly tyers corner
"Doll Fly"
Doll flies and other luminescent squid flies are used at night and Rainbows are
particularly partial to them. Fished on a floating line and in tandem with a large
black Marabou, they are probably the most successful fly for the winter running
Rainbows in the Rotorua region. Fish them at the release points or where any
stream enters a lake, and vary the retrieve. Sometimes they are successful
retrieved fast, but more often a slow retrieve will evoke a strike. Shine the doll fly
up with a torch or camera flash every 5/10 casts, this also gives you the
opportunity to check for tangles etc. Try to be considerate of other anglers close
by and not blind them while so doing. The following tie is very good at change of
light in am or pm as it is a great smelt imitation.
Materials
Hook normally #6 or 8
Tail tag red or orange glo bug yarn on bottom with chartruesse glo bug yarn used
for the back on top.
Body lumo strip
Underbody wide silver tinsel strip
Ribbing Medium copper wire
Back Chartruesse glo bug yarn
Flashabou
Method
Tie on thread and attach red glo bug yarn tag at tail end
Tie in Chartruesse glo bug yarn on top of red and leave plenty to bring up over
the body after it is completed
Tie in silver tinsel strip and copper wire, wind the silver tinsel to the head (this
gives the lumo a mirror base and enhances the glow) but leave the copper wire at
the tail
Tie in the lumo strip at head and wind evenly over shank of hook towards tail but
do not stretch as this weakens the glow effect
Tie off lumo then bring the copper ribbing forward and tie off at head, this
strengthens the fly as fish teeth cut the lumo
Pull backing material forward over lumo and tie in at head
Add in flashabou below hook
Form a good head with a left over bit of lumo and tie off
Pull the tail between finger and thumb and cut straight across with sharp scissors,
this gives a fish like tail.
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Rerewhakaaitu Club trip April 2014
The Sunday morning was cold but clear and the Lake at "crater bay" was
clean and the level down even further than previous trips. Several hardy souls
had been on the lake early when it was completely fogged in and both Bevan
and his grandson and Don S had already landed fish. The day cleared and
warmed up and it proved to be very pleasant all day. In total we had 25
people along so it was a great turn out. Apart from Bevan (14 fish) who
trolled , the FlyFishers struggled to land fish , I am not sure what the final
tally was but it was probably only 1/2 dozen landed. It was great to see
everybody enjoy the day regardless of the fish caught -Nigel managed to drag
his leg out for some exercise - and we look forward to the next Rere. trip in
June.
cheers Larry
(see photo’s opposite)
A couple of photo’s from Woody 2
The one on the left is entitled ;
Proof that neoprene will only stretch
so far!
And the one above is entitled;
A selfie, - what happens when you
have the camera around the wrong
way.
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Sunrise at Tapu, fishing will be on fire today
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View of the Landing taken from the Tarawera Trail by Neal Hawes