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The Eastern Region Fish and Game Council is reviewing the rules that apply to fishing for trout in its waters – including the Rotorua Lakes, Tauranga, Waikaremoana and East Coast. The annual review process allows anglers to give their feedback on the regulations in the Angler’s Notice. Fish & Game Officer Matt Osborne says “this year, we’ve come up with some suggested changes in response to comments from anglers. Changes have been raised to simplify the current rules which have been criticised as unnecessarily complex. “What we propose is good news for veteran anglers and novices alike: the bottom line is greater opportunities for anglers – and now the Fish & Game Council is asking anglers to consider the suggestions, and write in with their feedback.” The regulations that apply to the winter shoreline fisheries on Lakes Tarawera, Rotoiti and Okataina have been identified as particularly complicated – because of the rules on fishing methods permitted in particular areas at certain times. “The Council proposal is that ‘fly fishing only’ periods for all the winter shoreline sites on these lakes would only come into effect from April 1st. This would mean far more opportunity for shoreline spin-fishing anglers over summer, but less for these spin fishers during the winter when they’re not normally too active in any case,” Mr. Osborne says. Another proposed change is to open all waters in the region at the beginning of October, providing anglers with more fishable waters earlier. The Council’s suggesting that all fishing waters open at the traditional 1 October season start after the winter, rather than some remaining closed till December. This will open up angling opportunities in areas such as the upper Ngongotaha, Waiteti and Utuhina streams (Rotorua), and the Mokau and Hopuruahine Streams at Waikaremoana (East Coast). The proposals for the 2012-13 season, if adopted, would come into effect on October 1st 2012. Anglers are invited to view the proposals in detail on the Eastern Fish & Game website (eastern.fishandgame.org.nz), or by contacting the local Eastern Region office. Anyone who wants to make a submission is urged to send them to Eastern Region Fish & Game by the end of May so the Fish & Game Council can consider them at their June Council meeting. AUCKLAND / WAIKATO REPORT Reel Life Magazine – Fish And Game NZ Hydo Lakes Turn It On. Throughout April the trout fishing has been superb with the rivers and hydro lakes fishing well. So far it has certainly been an exceptional autumn. 18
Both Lakes Arapuni and Karapiro continue to produce high catch rates of large fish. The cool summer and high flows have produced excellent growth rates, and we are getting a lot of positive feedback from anglers. It would be at least 10 years since the hydro lakes fished this well. The small stream fishing continues to be outstanding, partly because it was such a wet summer that we are still seeing good flows – despite the recent long period of dry weather. Streams along the Kaimai Ranges and the headwaters of the Waipa are holding large numbers of trout, including big browns that have recently moved in from the lower reaches. Further south, it can be difficult to fish the gorge sections of the Whakapapa and upper Whanganui due to the low angle of the sun shading much of the river and making it hard to spot fish or even to read the water. Over summer we’ve received mixed reports from both rivers. Fishing success appears to vary considerably day-by-day, and with the expertise of the angler. AT THE END ARE THE RAINBOWS Hugh Creasy There’s a fold in the hills, a twist of rock and clay where grass grows greener and griselina grows untouched by grazing animals. And at the foot of an old hoheria, bedraggled in the autumn, with half its leaves gone, there is a bog where sedges push aside the grass and a trickle of brown water falls to a narrow valley, a gorge. It is the beginning of a river – its source. A few venturesome sheep have left their hoofmarks in the bog, but for the most part the steepness of the surrounding countryside keeps larger animals at bay. This is the grazing ground of hares, the habitat of skinks and geckos, sunbathing on the boulders. The mayflies and caddis rise from the gorge to rest on the rock faces and become sustenance for predators. There are soldier flies and hairy-headed moth midges where a tangle of fallen tree trunks has blocked the gorge. The decaying organic matter feeds them for all the years it takes trees to disintegrate and disappear. The water here seeps rather than flows, and where the gorge ends and the stream becomes defined there are patches of gorse and broom where mallards have molted and left their feathers strewn. In the stream, where the first pool is shaded, a giant kokopu hovers in the mud, its presence revealed by a waving dorsal fin. At the foot of the pool, smaller galaxids keep station, each with an invisible territory, a living space to graze and hunt. Below the pool the corpse of a ewe, dead during lambing in the spring, is now a hollow shell of bedraggled leather and wool, home to dronefly maggots, ready to pupate. The corpse has been visited by eels and all soft tissue has long gone but the carcass has released a rich diet to the stream’s wildlife. 19
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