Blast from the past
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Category: Saltwater Fishing
Forum Name: The Briny Bar
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Printed Date: 27 May 2026 at 2:11pm
Topic: Blast from the past
Posted By: Tonto2
Subject: Blast from the past
Date Posted: 06 Oct 2025 at 8:05pm
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Posted By: The Tamure Kid
Date Posted: 06 Oct 2025 at 8:37pm
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Great stuff, thanks for sharing. I love reading about the exploits of people in that era - the classic Kiwi book Sea Cockies of the Manukau is from the same time period, with amazing catches by handlines etc up near Wattle Bay. My dad has a very early copy of the book, and a clipping from the paper when the writer of it died. I suspect that someone with knowledge of the NZ Herald archives could find the article from 1948. As all the old copies are held in hard copy and probably digitally now. My dad recalls visits to Whatipu in that same era (he was born in 1935) when there were large lagoons that they netted flounder from. It would have been a rugged drive out there in those days, with old cars and crappy gravel roads.
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Posted By: Pcj
Date Posted: 06 Oct 2025 at 10:25pm
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The Tamure Kid wrote:Posted By: Tonto2
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2025 at 10:13am
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I had a copy of sea cockies but cant find it. Awesome book about the old days and the hard lives our ancestors lived. There is not to much written history of the manukau, i am fascinated by local history. ------------- slowly going where everyone else has already been |
Posted By: Phantom Menace
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2025 at 12:07pm
| "A well timed flying tackle" ... thats awsome. Thanks for sharing. |
Posted By: smudge
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2025 at 7:19pm
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I had a search on old newspaper archives but the NZ Herald one didn't go beyond 1945. Was a great book for sure and I have read it. I was going to steal the book off the owner but Skoti threatened me with the same fate as the hookers in his freezer so I had to give it back to him. ------------- Best gurnard fisherman in my street |
Posted By: smudge
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2025 at 7:23pm
I did a class on Maori ao. The guy was from up north & now based in Awhitu but he knows lots about local maori history and is a really good fulla. Let me know if you want contact details Martyn.
------------- Best gurnard fisherman in my street |
Posted By: Tonto2
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2025 at 12:56pm
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Yes please ------------- slowly going where everyone else has already been |