by Tony Orman | Dec 8, 2021 | Editor's pick, Features, Fishing
Chances are with abnormal spring and early summer rains, your favourite trout water has been running high and brown. Don’t despair; when the river then begins to drop and clears to just slightly discoloured – well, murky – water, it’s a good time for both spin...
by Tony Orman | Oct 22, 2021 | Editor's pick, Features, Hunting
Decades ago, I headed to a new job in Hawke’s Bay. It chanced that a chap in the office was a keen hunter and we got chatting. So when Ralph offered to take me out hunting, I jumped at the chance. He took his camera while I took the rifle. We hunted some ferny,...
by Tony Orman | Aug 24, 2021 | Editor's pick, Features, Hunting
Many years ago – somewhere in the early 1960s from memory – the late John Henderson and I climbed up onto the tops of the Tararua Range behind Ōtaki to Kime Hut. It was evening when we arrived and that night, the weather turned to the south. The southerly lashed the...
by Tony Orman | Apr 16, 2021 | Features, Hunting
Deaths of hunters during the popular autumn hunting period may, on analysis, reveal more than just a hunter’s misjudgement and wrong identification of a movement in the bush. It is this aiming and firing at ‘a movement in the bush’ that gives a strong clue to the...
by Tony Orman | Feb 17, 2021 | Editor's pick, Features, Fishing
Many years ago, a friend from Nelson – Ben by name – gave me some great advice. I was talking to him one day about fishy things when I mentioned that I had been too busy to go out fishing. “Well Tony, here’s a bit of advice. When you’re on your death bed, you won’t...
