Thread: Anyone hunted the Gold Creek Helisika block?

Hunted Gold Creek block Nov last year. Hut is good (plenty of mice though), meat safe shite. Trout in river are plenty & some BIG ones in those pools up & downstream of hut.
Deer were there but not in big numbers (or not that time of year anyways). You needed to be 1.5 - 2 hrs walk back from hut to get onto them. Fly camp would be much more productive. Both the SE and SW ends of block were most productive - lots of manuka scrub faces on SE side, ending up in beech that pretty much forms the boundary with golden hills block. A big walk up to the SW end is definetly worth it - some great sniper spots to park up and glass big country. Some good beech up that end & plenty of manuka faces. Would park my arse in a fly camp in that area if I hunted it again.