Well firstly Hi to everyone out there in fishing land, hope you all had a great new year!!!

Thanks for the warm welcome (I think....)

 

It can be a lot of fun heading to the waikato hydrolakes... namely karapiro actually, and fishing for the rudd there. There are masses of the little sods there, catch as many as you like mate, rip into them!
I don't think anyone is going to nail you up for enjoying your coarse fishing, heck, fishing is fishing is fishing as far as I am concerned, it was just the tenor of some other posters to whom you not-so-obliquely refer that ruffled many feathers here.
Hey, if you have yarns ot spin of places, techniques and captures around the countriside, I for one would be happy to read out them.
Go for it mate, no worries at all.
Mind you.... with the same light tackle you may use for rudd or whatever, wouldn't you rather hook into a school of kahawai instead? Now that WOULD test your tackle! :-)
Cheers, and indeed, welcome to the site, feel free to post up as much as you like, as often as you like, about whatever you like, you shouldn't catch too much flak really mate,
Stu.

Anguilla, there is definitely a course fishing prescence here, although to be fair it is practiced mainly by 'ex-pats' from the UK and the gear is often bought in from there as well. There is probably not the concentration of punters here to enable a larger scale business to be built up.

Well Bazza, I learned something from that very 'passionate' and obviously learned opinion on coarse fishing. Thanks for the bit of knowledge

Thanks Sputnik - guess I learned something else today as well. They seem to have been round for a while as well.

Capt Asparagus wrote: That's true Bazza, both salmon and trout can also be considered illegal non-native species. Forest and Bird actually had a policy a few years ago in the height of their eco-nazi days that they wanted all trout streams poisoned to get rid of this infestation. Anguilla (Eel?).., if you are just keen on yarning about coarse fishing, you just post yer little heart out, I for one would be interested, although perhaps not likely to be sufficiently motivated to do it myself! :-) Bazza, give the guy a break... and if Anguilla is part of some deeper conspiracy, then I guess sooner or later we will find out...til then, make nice, OK? :-) Cheers, Stu the moderator-who-will-jump-on-anything-heated-or-snarky-that-develops-in-this-thread. (golly, what a long name.)

Before you start pointing the bone Sputnik I think if you re-read Bazza's post - you will find it says they "were imported then illegally bred & distributed/released".  - it doesnt say at all that they were illegally imported.

Barbary B wrote: Before you start pointing the bone Sputnik I think if you re-read Bazza's post - you will find it says they "were imported then illegally bred & distributed/released".  - it doesnt say at all that they were illegally imported.   Granted its ambiguous but be very careful of your own facts right before making calls like that.   Personally - the illegal releases in Otatoa were a travesty where a couple of short sighted and selfish people f*cked up a resource that was used by a much larger group of people. The resentment runs very deep and I wont go there at all now as last time I did it took all my self control not to throw three coarse fishing immigrants and their gear far into the lake.   There vented my spleen - have a good time coarse fishing.

Thanks Clark