Fishing line tip

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 6, Issue 237, 29 March 1988, Page 6

Fishing line tip

I recently spent an enjoyable week in Ohakune over the holiday period and of course read a copy of your weekly Bulletin. Iama keen fisherman and read with interest the items on fishing in the Bulletin of 21 December 1987. Could I suggest through your newspaper the following advice to all fishermen, and as an addition to Mr John Heaphy the conservation officer's comment o n what all thoughtful fisherman should d o with tangled and unwanted nylon. What most fisherman in our East Coast re-

gion do is to roll the unwanted length of nylon around two fingers and snip the nylon in several places with scissors (which all fishermen usually carry). Fragments having been cut this way are so small that no harm will result even if they are then dropped near river or lake. What also prompted me to write to the Bulletin was while in Ohakune I visited Lake Rotokura and at the lake edge became caught up in a tangle of nylon carelessly dropped across the narrow track to its edge.

Athol

Scholes