June 9, 2024

Phil Houghton

AN INTRODUCTION TO FLY-TYING

June 9, 2024

Phil Houghton

Tony Entwistle and Don Clementson, with the help of other experienced club members, have organised

AN INTRODUCTION TO FLY-TYING

LEARN THE BASICS OF FLY-TYING INCLUDING -

* What equipment is needed and how to use it,

* The basic building blocks to tying a trout fly,

* How to tie a basic nymph,

* How to tie a basic dry fly.

If you are new to fly-tying or a novice looking to improve your fundamental skills, this is an excellent opportunity to learn from fellow club members who are experienced fly-tiers.

All equipment and materials will be supplied at no charge. If you have your own equipment, bring it along and learn how to use it effectively.

The course will be run over three consecutive Thursdays this month, on

June 13th, June 20th and June 27th … from 7pm – 9pm:

at the Nelson-Marlborough Fish and Game Rooms, Champion Rd.

The course will be open to the first eight members (new or novice fly-tiers) to contact Tony Entwistle via email to: enty10@gmail.com. (Please ensure you can make it for all three nights).

Any experienced fly-tiers who would like to come along and assist, are very welcome … again, please contact Tony to confirm your ability to lend a hand.

If there is enough interest, we will look to possibly run more fly-tying nights over the winter.

Cheers

Tony Entwistle and Don Clementson

May 28, 2024

Phil Houghton

Meeting Minutes 15/05/24

May 28, 2024

Phil Houghton

THE NELSON TROUT FISHING CLUB

Minutes of the committee meeting

14th May 2024

At Fish and Game rooms Champion Rd, Richmond

Kevin opened the meeting at 7.00pm welcoming members to the meeting.

Attendance:

Kevin Earl, Richard Breakspear, Jean Willis, Michael Stevenson, Mark Jowsey, Quinton Gately, Chris Clenshaw, Don Clementson, Neil Anderson, James McDonald, Jean Willis

Apologies: Peter Lawler, Don Clementson

Moved that the apologies be accepted.

Jean/Richard

carried

Previous minutes:

Minutes of the March meeting, as previously circulated, be taken as read.

Jean/ Richard carried

Business, arising from the minutes.

Nil

Correspondence

Email from Ian Kearney Youth Fish out Trust acknowledging guides contribution, plus copy of an email expressing appreciation from parent of guided children .

Letter from Todd Mclays office – declining our invitation to speak to the club in May but not ruling out a future time.

Club to write to the Youth Fish out Trust congratulating them on their achievements.

Chris/Kevin

Carried

Action - Jean

Treasurers Report

The treasurer presented his written report.

Moved that the report be received.

Chris/Quinton

Carried.

Club Nights

May: Anysley Haslett Pack rafting.

June: Annual Dinner: Action Don

Speights Ale House, Sunday 16th June from midday

Moved that member attending meal be subsidized to $30

Chris/ Kevin

Carried.

Moved that up to $250 be allocated for the provision of prizes.

Jean/Richard

Carried

Byrce Johnson to be invited to be our guest speaker. Requested to give anecdotes not politics. Note that the club pays for Bryce and his wife’s meal.

July - AGM and Quiz night

Action AGM Jean

Action Quiz Tony E

August - Annual action

Cameron Reid to manage

Chris Clenshaw auctioneer

Club program.

Organized club trips to the Motueka have been very successful, Kevin as president can decide when to organize.

Newsletter.

James reports going well.

Website.

The Committee endorses Ami Vera’s appointment to manage the club’s website and accepts her recommendations for how to manage the site.

General Business.

AED. Letter received advising the AED’s battery needs replacing. To be investigated as it is thought the battery was replaced last year.

Action Jean

Fish and Game elections: Fish and Game elections of councilors due this year, candidates okay to contact club members.

Parking - With the cycleways removing parking on Champion Rd, parking for club nights has become an issue. Club to write to TDC and NCC requesting the total parking ban be lifted. To investigate other parking options and advise members.

Action Jean

Request from Bob Andrews for more information about what insect behavior is during storms. Club to write to Karen Shearer, Cawthon Institute “bug lady” to request that she talks to the club.

Action Jean

Next committee meeting 11th June 2024

Meeting closed at 7.48pm

Kevin Earl

President

June 7, 2021

Nelson Trout Fishing Club

In-field survey of sodium monofluoroacetate (1080) residues in trout following an aerial baiting operation

June 7, 2021

Nelson Trout Fishing Club

Report on sampling of the Travers River after a 1080 drop. This is in response to our questioning of the safety of trout caught in waters that had been treated with 1080.

The Executive Summary is below. This publication is available on the Ministry for Primary Industries website at:

https://www.mpi.govt.nz/science/food-safety-and-suitability-research/food-science-research/chemical-hazard-and-mycotoxin-research/

Executive Summary
Sodium monofluoroacetate (also termed 1080) is a vertebrate toxic agent currently employed in New Zealand for control of introduced mammalian pest species. The use of sodium monofluoroacetate is strictly regulated under the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 (HSNO Act) and the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSW Act). Any adverse events reported as resulting from monofluoroacetate drops are reported and followed up by the Environmental Protection Authority. Based on a risk assessment New Zealand Food Safety currently recommends anglers follow a precautionary period of seven (7) days following an aerial sodium monofluoroacetate operation before consuming trout caught in an aerial operation area. To validate this risk assessment, an in-field study was undertaken to determine the residue profile of sodium monofluoroacetate in trout after an aerial operation. On the 14 September 2020, 19 brown trout were caught from the lower Travers River in the Nelson Lakes area. The study was undertaken six (6) days after the aerial sodium monofluoroacetate operation of the Travers and Sabine River valleys. Trout were humanely euthanised before measuring and weighing. Trout were transported frozen to AsureQuality Wellington, being received on 15 September 2020. All 19 trout were filleted before analysis for tissue monofluoroacetate by an accredited liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry method. None of the 19 trout sampled and tested had levels of monofluoroacetate above the limit of quantification (<0.00031 mg/kg). Interpreting these findings against the results of dosing trout in laboratory conditions supports the conclusion of the risk assessment that trout are unlikely to consume bait pellets. Consequently, this study advances the understanding that trout are unlikely to present a food safety risk if consumed after an aerial sodium monofluoroacetate bating operation. To fully validate the conclusion of no food safety risk further work is planned to sample other rives and to identify if a secondary route of exposure exists through consuming mice when an operation occurs when mice populations are very high.

May 19, 2021

Nelson Trout Fishing Club

Delaware Bay Access

May 19, 2021

Nelson Trout Fishing Club

See this link for more information about the current status:

https://nzffa.com/delaware-bay-access-group/

September 10, 2020

Nelson Trout Fishing Club

Best Laid Plans - A Short Story by Michael Stevenson

September 10, 2020

Nelson Trout Fishing Club

Best Laid Plans

The weather turned lovely on Thursday (9 July) and the Motueka was at a fishable level so I headed out to thrash the water for a few of hours. I arrived to find the river definitely higher than I had fished it all year, including all of last season. While cloudy, it was clear enough to fish and I held hope I could fool at least one fish.

The process of getting fitted out took on its usual methodical, time consuming effort. It struck me as a bit OCD as I made sure my water bottle was attached to my belt before I put on my vest because it was hard to see my belt after the bulges of pocketed fly boxes got in the way. Once fully kitted out, I felt a bit like the guys that have to don HAZMAT suits.

I started the 100 metre hike down stream walking in the shallow water that now lapped the edge and covered a gravel bar dry in normal flows. I hadn’t got 50 feet when a big wake shot out toward deeper water. What The Heck?! A big brown had been taking advantage of the high water to feed in a sheltered spot that had enough flow to deliver feed. *sigh*

I continued my hike, arrived at my chosen start point, tied on two weighted nymphs (#10 and #14) to compensate for the greater water volume and began ‘working the clock’ to cover the area because spotting was out of the question. My procedure was to repeat a circuit of drifts at least three times. With the discolouration and lower water temperatures of winter, I figured the fish would not travel far to find food and because the river was still dropping, each drift (even those landing in virtually the same spot) would take a different path through the water. I would then move upstream about 10 paces and repeat. This went on until I reached the top of the run. The result was no success whatsoever. I had already stopped for lunch and I didn’t have all that much time until the sun started leaving the water, so I started working back toward the car fishing the edges of the big riffle without joy.

I got back to the shallow area where I had spooked the fish and got up on the bank to try to spot the fish, if it had returned. It was shallow enough (about ankle deep) that I could easily see the area. A couple of steps, look over the whole area and move forward another couple of steps. I was halfway past the newly inundated gravel when there he was! A brown that looked at least 4 pounds, the largest I had seen since late April. As I watched, the fish moved about occasionally taking something from the drift. I realised the two heavy nymphs I had were very unlikely to be suitable for this very shallow slow moving water so I took them off and replaced them with a #14 parachute Adams and #16 caddis grub on a short dropper. All the while an occasional quick glance confirmed the fish was still cruising the area and feeding.

Creeping forward on my knees I got to a position where I was confident I could put a cast into a good spot where the fish would see it. I had to clear the nymph from the tall grass a couple of times and finally got ready to look and see the fish had taken up a position perfect for me to drop my combo just to his left. I had to get the line out onto the water to pull off enough for the delivery cast so I flicked it toward the water only to have the flies catch on the only dried flower head next to me. I cleared that and then made a cast to my hard left to get the line clear to lift for casting toward the fish. As the line settled on the water, well below where the fish had been during the entire time I had watched it, a big boil and wake told me the fish had shifted from where I last looked and sure enough the location was now devoid of its finned occupant. I don’t know why but the whole scenario now struck me as incredibly funny and I broke out laughing at the folly of fishermen.

With that, I walked to the car, packed up and headed home.

Michael Stevenson

August 23, 2020

Nelson Trout Fishing Club

Nelson Marlborough Annual Report 2019-20

August 23, 2020

Nelson Trout Fishing Club

Here is the Fish and Game Nelson Marlborough Annual Fisheries Report for 2019-20. Some interesting observations including loss of many medium fish throughout quite a few fisheries following two summer droughts in a row.