Thread: Hunting NI - Inland East Coast? where to start?

spring Waikaremoana - was senior Ranger there for 8 yrs so know it well - spring will not happen there until about second week of November - at present will be frosts and damn cold lower valleys - deer will be high - but lots of them - try upper hopuruahine catchment - hunt the high ridges - deer will be on the move chasing windfall - if sunny watch slips they like to come out if there is any sun high up - they likely wont be down in the valley bottoms - Now its Waioeka ( not weka nothing to do with the weka bird- name means white water ) was Ranger in there for 5 years - try southern end up Opato catchment - head up northern side - again to early for spring - hunt high - or ask landowner up Wairata road if you can go to Kotepato hut up the main river - again hunt the high ridges - leave me PM if you want more info

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

spring Waikaremoana - was senior Ranger there for 8 yrs so know it well - spring will not happen there until about second week of November - at present will be frosts and damn cold lower valleys - deer will be high - but lots of them - try upper hopuruahine catchment - hunt the high ridges - deer will be on the move chasing windfall - if sunny watch slips they like to come out if there is any sun high up - they likely wont be down in the valley bottoms - Now its Waioeka ( not weka nothing to do with the weka bird- name means white water ) was Ranger in there for 5 years - try southern end up Opato catchment - head up northern side - again to early for spring - hunt high - or ask landowner up Wairata road if you can go to Kotepato hut up the main river - again hunt the high ridges - leave me PM if you want more info

Waikaremoana will have a bit off snow around from the dump yesterday but shouldn't hang for long. Same with the top end of the Waioeka @Barry the hunter the opato is not like it was land owner has opened back up all the old tracks and now got no hunting signs on the boundary i believe. I think the boundary starts near the old fire place in the main river with out looking on a map. You will know where i mean. I can give you more info in a pm if you want Barry off what tracks etc seems you know the area

The private land is up the southern fork of the Opato- where I used to hunt is up the north eastern fork in DOC land - Wams maps will give boundarys (ohh in case you have never seen those google Walking Access Management system and select public access map- you can choose NZMG or aerial and you can turn the DOC green layer of to really look at aerial photos ) high up back towards Opotiki was not hunted much then

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

.... Now its Waioeka ( not weka nothing to do with the weka bird- name means white water ) ....

Waiuwhaka i didnt know it was a spelling bee.. lol ..schooled at 53, gotta love it.

cheers for the heads up also.

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

spring Waikaremoana - was senior Ranger there for 8 yrs so know it well - spring will not happen there until about second week of November - at present will be frosts and damn cold lower valleys - deer will be high - but lots of them - try upper hopuruahine catchment - hunt the high ridges - deer will be on the move chasing windfall - if sunny watch slips they like to come out if there is any sun high up - they likely wont be down in the valley bottoms - Now its Waioeka ( not weka nothing to do with the weka bird- name means white water ) was Ranger in there for 5 years - try southern end up Opato catchment - head up northern side - again to early for spring - hunt high - or ask landowner up Wairata road if you can go to Kotepato hut up the main river - again hunt the high ridges - leave me PM if you want more info

Will Spring growth be early down the Urutawa conservation area, like up the Te Waiti river flat hunt?, or still better up high along the ridges around the 6-700m marks

Cheers

yeah likely start early mid oct not really a frost area