THE HUTT VALLEY ANGLER - Christchurch Fishing and Casting Club
THE HUTT VALLEY ANGLER - Christchurch Fishing and Casting Club
THE HUTT VALLEY ANGLER - Christchurch Fishing and Casting Club
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Meet the Member- Simon Muckley<br />
G’day all.<br />
I did happen to like John’s comment<br />
that writing this piece would save me<br />
from becoming known only as ‘the<br />
new chap’. My name is Simon<br />
Muckley <strong>and</strong> I currently live in Stokes<br />
Valley with my extremely patient <strong>and</strong><br />
underst<strong>and</strong>ing wife Michelle <strong>and</strong> my 2<br />
boys Nathan (18) <strong>and</strong> Cameron (15). I<br />
have been a golf professional since I<br />
left school. I am currently working as<br />
a Customer Service Agent for Air New<br />
Zeal<strong>and</strong> at the Wellington airport.<br />
This position now affords me the little<br />
luxury of varying shifts <strong>and</strong> differing days off so my fishing <strong>and</strong> hunting<br />
ventures may prove more profitable as I won’t be fighting for spots. Mind<br />
you New Zeal<strong>and</strong> is blessed with plenty of places to hunt <strong>and</strong> fish <strong>and</strong> so I<br />
doubt I will have any problems whenever <strong>and</strong> wherever I might venture.<br />
That’s one thing I have come to appreciate since moving here in 1987. We<br />
truly are very lucky with our hunting <strong>and</strong> fishing opportunities.<br />
Being somewhat of a ‘city slicker’ back in the UK I only dabbled with a short<br />
stint of coarse fishing as a boy trying to hook Tench, Perch, Rudd <strong>and</strong> the<br />
likes without much success. Since coming to NZ I took up an opportunity to<br />
hunt game birds on an Opening Weekend back in 2000. I was very fortunate<br />
to know Tom Caithness who was the President at the golf club that I was<br />
working at. He introduced me to clay target shooting at the Hutt Valley Gun<br />
<strong>Club</strong> soon after <strong>and</strong> then suggested that if I wanted to continue with game<br />
bird hunting my best bet was to contact a local club known as The<br />
Wellington Wildfowlers (a break-away club from the original Acclimatisation<br />
Society). I have enjoyed over 10 years association with this club of which I<br />
have been the Secretary for longer than I care to remember! It is my current<br />
mission to try <strong>and</strong> inject some new members into <strong>and</strong> re-invigorate a rather<br />
small <strong>and</strong> struggling club membership. It has been great to see how the<br />
Angling <strong>Club</strong> works <strong>and</strong> I have to admit that some of the ideas <strong>and</strong> activities<br />
will be making an appearance at the Wildfowlers. I believe that there is real<br />
value in being a member of a club.<br />
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Hutt Valley Angling <strong>Club</strong> Incorporated - September 2012
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