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Fish with Bish Newsletter
December 1998

New Article
Fishing In a Goldfish Bowl
Standout days are rare – if they were not they would not standout. A couple of weeks ago, my lad, Ed, and I spent a magic day fishing to smelting trout right at our feet. This story is in the December NZ Fisherman Magazine.

Be Careful Out There!

Down in this part of the world, our summer which has just begun, and the main holiday period around Xmas and New Year is a time when fishing gets into full swing. It is also the time when most fishermen drown. Be careful out there – and before you venture out have a look at this.

I have been fishing for over forty years and I still have not come across a fish I wanted to die for.

False Fish Identification

In last months newsletter I rattled on about the difficulties that can be encountered with fish identification in these international days of the internet.

Would have been nice if I had checked my own identifications as the NZ Snapper was reclassified Chrysophris pagrus about five years ago – silly me. Just shows how easy it is to leave outdated information lying about on a web site and not check it. There is a warning in there somewhere. The world wide web is becoming just like one giant computer containing information – good and bad. What was that old computer adage – garbage in, garbage out. These days it seems it is too easy to leave the garbage in!

Thanks to all those, and there were many of you, who took the time and trouble to remind me how enfeebled my memory is becoming.

New Book Selling Well
My new book ‘Fishing Smarter for Trout’ is in stores now, and by all accounts is selling well. Very gratifying.

The basic premise of the book is that most anglers who have difficulty catching trout, fish where trout are not. Trout live at any one time in less than 10% of the water available to them. Finding that 10% is the first and fundamental key to success.

Having the best gear, the best flies, the best casting technique, is about as useless as an ashtray on a motorbike, if you use them where fish are not.

Have a great Xmas and a beaut New Year.
I will try and get out another newsletter at the end of December, but if there are fish about, and I am about the fish, there is little or no show of that happening!!

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