by F&O NEWS DESK | Mar 5, 2020 | Features, Fishing
From fishing with her father and brother as a child and spending winters as a family fishing the waters in Turangi, to being named in the New Zealand Fly Fishing team heading to competition later this year, you could say it’s been a whirlwind for Waikato fly fisher...
by Tony Orman | Feb 5, 2020 | Features, Hunting
American hunting author Larry Weishuhn, in Pear Flat Philosophies, wrote, “Most people’s lives are filled with firsts – first day at school, first date, first kiss, first car – but for me perhaps none of my firsts were more important than my first whitetail deer.” I...
by Fred Hemi | Jan 23, 2020 | Features, Fishing
The words of George Gershwin’s song Summertime from Porgy and Bess go like this: Summertime, and the livin’ is easy, fish are jumping. Summertime is great for trout because of summer insects such as cicadas that can send trout into a feeding frenzy – something to keep...
by F&O NEWS DESK | Jan 23, 2020 | Features, Fishing
When you are young and straight out of school, you have certain ideas about what you’ll end up doing in your career. While most of us don’t have a full-fledged plan chalked out, we tend to have some goals that lead us to our first foray into the real world. But life...
by Fred Hemi | Dec 11, 2019 | Features, Hunting
Dogs have long been a companion for keen hunters. They have pretty good noses to smell game with; it is a great aid in hunting. I can recall instances like hunting down a spur one evening when my Labrador suddenly raised his head, turned it to the right with nose...
by Ben Hope | Dec 10, 2019 | Features, Fishing
Snapper are a fish that probably best reflect the often quoted adage that 10% of anglers catch 90% of the fish. If you want to score on snapper, you have to understand them; well, at least try because snapper are very enigmatical, especially so in holiday time such as...
