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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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by woods223
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.
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 boatQuote:
Originally Posted by 300wsm for life
Just my luck. There from 8th July so the 4th week :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by AMac
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!Quote:
Originally Posted by uk_exile
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 :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by AMac
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....
Hope you enjoyed your Pelorus sound trip - did you have any success with the hunting?Quote:
Originally Posted by uk_exile
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 :-)
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now that is a great result.
Just a heads up, I think the limit of blue cod in your possession at any time is 2 per person in the Challenger area, no accumulation. Having said that, the blue cod fishery is very healthy in the outer Pelorus and QC sounds. Last time out in QC Sound we caught our two each (8 in total) in about 10 minutes.
I'm not having a crack, just info, pleased you had a good trip.
Sorry mate, I completely forgot to send you some details. Glad you had a good trip. Since the father passed and the mother moved to Havelock the farm has steadily gone backwards. It is hard and unforgiving land out there. I just don't think it's viable to farm out there anymore. Don't think Trevor's heart is in it anymore, don't get me wrong he loves the place but the farms going backwards.
The Outer Sounds have slowly but surely reverted over the last 30 years .
I look at the landscape when I drive the road to our place and see hillsides that were once clear , but now covered in scrub .
Viability of properties and the reality of commerce has taken it toll and that is a natural progression, but I always wonder what the early pioneers/farmers who worked themselves to an early grave clearing that land would think if they could see it now .
I’m just glad I got to see it before time and nature grabbed hold of it once again.
Certainly right there @Ground Control. Where is your place?
Port LigarQuote:
Originally Posted by 300wsm for life
manuka used to be bane of our existance...now its a bonus with honey folks paying silly money for scrub covered land.....often really good money for just having hives on your property...let the scrub grow....oh how things have changed.
Great to hear you had a good trip UK exile and that is a whopper cod !
I got back sunday night from a few days on the other side of the hill from foots place - brought back 3 cod at 43/44/50 cm we got on our abortive trip Stephen’s passage. The fishery is in ok shape for cod but snapper really great now getting to be like it was 40-50 years ago.
If the cullers got 9 deer two weeks ago up behind us the they must have missed 19 there be fresh sign everywhere. Completely nocturnal we reckon mate went outside just after 6 to fill the wood basket and spooked a bunch 20 m from our front door!
We out dawn and dusk but saw nothing but fresh sign from the night before
We'd downloaded the NZ fishing rules app and it was clear so emailed MPI. Here's the reply we got.Quote:
Originally Posted by A-Bolt
I have attached the blue cod rules brochure to this email – this should have all the information you need.
The daily bag limit is 2 per active fisher, per day. The accumulation limit is two days’ worth – so 4 per active fisher if caught over several days. You can take 4 through to Canterbury as both areas are blue cod red zones.
If you have accumulated more than a daily limit, I recommend bagging and tagging each day differently. You could also take photos with timestamps to prove this to a fishery officer if questioned.
Please bear in mind that fish on a vessel must remain whole or gutted (measurable state) unless being eaten immediately onboard (as part of your daily limit).
The blue cod season is completely closed from 1 September to 20 December every year. Please give us a call on 0800 4 POACHER (0800 476 224) if you have any further questions.
Ngā mihi
Katherine
National Communications Centre (NCC)
Operations Branch | Intelligence, Planning & Coordination Services
Ministry for Primary Industries - Manatū Ahu Matua | 7 Heriot Drive | PO Box 2526 | Porirua | New Zealand
Telephone: 0800 4 POACHER (0800 476 224)| Web: www.mpi.govt.nz
@AMac zero snappper for us. Likely because we stayed within 15mins of accomodation due to having 3, 6, 9yr olds on board each trip. Hooked in number order many spotties, cod, dogfish, gurnard, kawhai, barracuda. Feed many spotties to shags to get rid of them. Good fun for all. Didn't specifically try for deer or pigs as took the 9yr old out each time and also was told minimal deer. There was some shots on the property one afternoon so poaching going on :-(
Apparently snapper are out in the deep holes with D'Urville /Stephens passage good spots to target them, the weather stopped me unfortunately that and the transducer cable becoming unplugged so I lost my sounder 50+ km out from the bach.:oh noes:
Out from Wilsons Bay where you were can be good for snapper, gurnard and Kingis over summer with lots of work ups from early morning right into late afternoon - dropping lures down to bottom circa 50-60m was productive last Xmas holidays. Foots has always had plenty of goats and pigs coming over from the QE2 covenant land he has a couple of traps up there for them.
Well there you go!! Turns out I've had the wrong end of the stick. Thanks for clarifying that, I'll keep a copy of the MPI reply on my boat.Quote:
Originally Posted by uk_exile
