What happened to the March and April Newsletters you may ask? And more
than a few of you have asked! Well I have been a busy lad, as you will
see.
If you have not visited the site in a while, you may hardly recognize
the place. I have done a total revamp of the site, to hopefully make
it easier to navigate and get to the stories and articles that may interest
you. Most of the stories and articles now have a "more on this
theme" section on each page to direct you to…. Well, articles
on a similar theme.
Another plus that arises doing an update on a whole site is just how
much crud and dross has accumulated. Hopefully I have cleaned out all
the rubbish, and fixed all the broken links. But if you find some please
let me know.
In addition to working on the web site, I am trying to finish my fourth
fishing book, hopefully by June, and I have a novel to finish by the
end of the year. All this on top of trying to earn a meagre living at
my ‘real’ job.
So that just about covers the excuses for newsletters – so onto the
news:
You have to check out a story on the Home page about Amber’s
big fish. It will make you weep. Frankly I think Amber should be
put down, any fishing the ‘darling child’ does from now on will be a
very big comedown.
(Just a note to some overseas anglers about Amber’s use of worms to
make her catch – in many areas of the South Island, the authorities
are enlightened enough to realize that to get kids into fishing they
need to catch fish, and dangling a worm in front of the gaping maw of
a trout is a great way to achieve this aim. But Amber’s fish?)
New Articles
Actually there have not been any for a couple of months now, (see the
above if you want more grovelling for sympathy), so for the next couple
of months I will drag a chapter or two out of my books, and put them
up. The first one is up now.
Fishing Prospects:
Here in the North Island, trout fishermen are waiting impatiently for
a decent spell of heavy rain to hit the greater Taupo region and set
off the spawning runs up the region’s rivers. Big fish in big water
– you have to love it. Any day now it will be all on from now through
to August, and sometimes even longer. Cannot wait.
The Hauraki Gulf is still producing good numbers of snapper, and it
should do right over winter. Why? Have read of John Eichelsheim’s article
on what may be the myths surrounding "snapper migrations",
in the May Fishing News Magazine. Plenty of food for thought – and if
the hypothesis is found to be correct then the rules and regulations
about the harvesting of snapper will need a substantial rethink, and
quickly.
Something that I have noticed when upgrading my site, is how some things
change very little from year to year. Looking over the newsletters especially,
similar things pop up on an annual basis. So if you want some info on
what might be happening around a certain month, have a quick peek at
back issues of the news letters for that month.