Thread: Hunting & fishing outer Pelorus?

I’ve got a week holiday next month staying at Wilson Bay. Mostly a fishing trip but I see there’s DOC open permit hunting areas near there. The accomodation is ok with me taking rifle. Some are small only 1-2km2 and others 10’s of km2 and larger.
I’m expecting goats, maybe pigs and low chance of deer. Not wanting to know your special sport X but appreciate any thoughts on better areas to target?
Could be solo but also could be with a keen 6 & 9yr old tagging along.

Are you staying at Te Rawa or the Footes place?

Staying at Footes so possible to walk to a small DOC area

What sort of distance do you want to travel? There are deer fairly close by. Footes is surrounded by goats and pigs, small area off the end of that peninsula that will have pigs. More deer across from there. I can Take a snap shot of the area and put some marks on it if you want.

As stated above you'll be likely to come across all three species in that area. Good luck.

Originally Posted by woods223

As stated above you'll be likely to come across all three species in that area. Good luck.

Deer a few the doc reserve and quite a few in the QE2 covenant land in Miro bay over behind Footes. But QE2 trust emailed all bach owners this week saying they getting a chopper in using a thermal scope to shoot the deer and goats in 2-3 weeks time. Same crowd who got several hundred over in queen charlotte lochmara area. Its regenerating scrub very hard to hunt deer and those seen or shot mainly on peoples front lawns when no one else about. Last time QE2 got cullers in was ground hunters with dogs using a drone with a thermal. Got 9 or so in a week. Plus fair few goats.


Deer doing alot of damage to the bush f all under growth plus they keep eating my mums agapanthus down to stubs and shit all over place.

Originally Posted by 300wsm for life

What sort of distance do you want to travel? There are deer fairly close by. Footes is surrounded by goats and pigs, small area off the end of that peninsula that will have pigs. More deer across from there. I can Take a snap shot of the area and put some marks on it if you want.

Thank you, that'd be awesome! Really appreciate it. We're travelling out in friends boat so can travel a bit, however his desire is mostly fishing so hunting will likely only be non fishing days i.e. too windy or rough for his kids on boat

Originally Posted by AMac

Deer a few the doc reserve and quite a few in the QE2 covenant land in Miro bay over behind Footes. But QE2 trust emailed all bach owners this week saying they getting a chopper in using a thermal scope to shoot the deer and goats in 2-3 weeks time. Same crowd who got several hundred over in queen charlotte lochmara area. Its regenerating scrub very hard to hunt deer and those seen or shot mainly on peoples front lawns when no one else about. Last time QE2 got cullers in was ground hunters with dogs using a drone with a thermal. Got 9 or so in a week. Plus fair few goats.


Deer doing alot of damage to the bush f all under growth plus they keep eating my mums agapanthus down to stubs and shit all over place.

Just my luck. There from 8th July so the 4th week :-(
I don't have a thermal. Not legal on DOC land anyway (at least not legal the way I read the permit. I know other opinions differ on that)

Originally Posted by uk_exile

Just my luck. There from 8th July so the 4th week :-(
I don't have a thermal. Not legal on DOC land anyway (at least not legal the way I read the permit. I know other opinions differ on that)

Just my luck too as I will be there the weekend of the 14th hoping I might have caught one out around the bach's as they seem to come out more in mid-winter. Given that I have never seen a deer in the QE2 let alone shot one, the cullers are going to have a much better chance of getting the numbers down than me!

QE2 trust say chopper got 9 deer and 9 goats on the covenant land doesn’t sound like they shot the DOC reserve.

Originally Posted by AMac

QE2 trust say chopper got 9 deer and 9 goats on the covenant land doesn’t sound like they shot the DOC reserve.

Yay!!! Some good luck. Might buy a $26M lotto ticket today. I'll be happy if the ticket wins big, or the hunting goes well. I know which is more likely :-)

one thing is for sure...you will have more chance of shooting something worthwhile if you do go for a look,than if you stay at batch and dont...and if deer just happens to pop out and you left rifle at home,you will kick yourself. rifle in gunbag on boat isnt silly if any of the blocks bounder the briney...goat out on bluff bang splash easy retrieve....

Originally Posted by uk_exile

Yay!!! Some good luck. Might buy a $26M lotto ticket today. I'll be happy if the ticket wins big, or the hunting goes well. I know which is more likely :-)

Hope you enjoyed your Pelorus sound trip - did you have any success with the hunting?
Cheers
AMac

The hunting was great. Helped the hosts by removing 2 goats from their property. The storm couple of years ago has been really hard on them. Stunning land, great to walk but really tough to farm. Could have easily removed a dozen goats or more but they have policy to use any animal properly so 2 was enough meat for us. Didn't go hunt the steep bush as had friend's 9yr son with me on both hunts. He loved it and wanted a goat head. Future hunter I think :-)

The fishing was good too. The maximum accumulation limit of 2 days catch (2 blue cod per fisher per day so take home max 4 whole fish) did impact how much we could bring home for freezer but that just meant we ate well most days. Seemed like fishery is doing ok as for every legal >33cm caught we returned at least 5 undersize blueys. Most kept were 35-39cm however I did get a 55cm blue cod. Rare they're that size in sounds area :-)

now that is a great result.