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Pernille B wrote a review Feb San Francisco, California 64 contributions 27 helpful votes. Wow - the most memorable hotel stay in NZ. We travelled from north to south, stayed in five star hotels , bungee jumped and black water rafted - but our Silverstream Alpaca stay remains our favorite memory in New Zealand. Here we arrived circa pm, in time to meet the owner Kit, to walk the paddocks and meet the Alpacas and even to help feed two newborns.
Clean, soft and comfortable , we loved shopping in the nearby supermarket to eat in - to allow for one more evening stroll on the premises. This was fantastic for our teenage children and for us and we congratulate Silverstream Alpaca on having created the ideal alternative experience to a hotel stay in Christchurch and a MUST do NZ experience! Simply amazing! Date of stay: February Trip type: Traveled with family.
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Thank you so much for your wonderful comments. We travel alot ourselves and have seen the good and the bad and have therefore tried to incorporate into out farmstay experience what we think will best please our guests. Thankyou for the review and we will always keep trying to do better. Alpacas are really a mans best friend and make our job so much easier.
Sravie wrote a review Jan Singapore, Singapore 30 contributions 11 helpful votes. A memorable stay. After a tour of Zealand, we decided to conclude our holiday here, it was the most relaxing end to our holiday. The cottage simple and beautiful. The highlight of the stay is of course the Alpacas.
The breakfast was sufficient and a great start to a relaxed day ahead. If we visit NZ again, we would love to end the trip here again. Date of stay: December Location. Ingrid F wrote a review Dec Mandurah, Australia 22 contributions 9 helpful votes. Farm Tour. Booked a farm tour. Not a tour as such, climb into a paddock of alpacas and feed them.
Not value for money. Cute alpacas tho. Date of stay: December Trip type: Traveled with family. Hi Ingrid We are sorry that you feel that the tour was not value for money. Alpacas are a rare and costly animal and difficult to make a financial return on. The tour advertised feeding the animals and getting up close for photographs. Most of our tours involve two people. Despite advertised departure times, many of our visitors choose to turn up any time or turn up late which often means that we have lost half a day from our regular farm chores.
The majority of which went back into the water alive. The secret of successful tiddler fishing, especially when taking the kids out for a fish, is to use very small hooks. Size 6 — 10 is a good size to use for most fishing as these are ideal for catching yellow-eyed mullet. These hooks are tiny, but they will still catch fish in excess of four pounds. They never catch anything. Their hooks are too big to fit into the mouth of the fish.
Every time they wind in their line their bait is gone but they never seem to work out why!
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So what then is the best size small hook for wharf and jetty fishing? A size 8 trout nymph hook is perfect. It will fit on the top of a 10 cent coin. The gap from the tip of the barb to the hook shank is 6mm. Overall the length measures 19mm. There are lots of different hook shapes. A similar size Suicide hook is also very good. Nowadays most sea-fishing hooks are chemically sharpened and come in red or black. Both colours are good and work just as well.
The important thing to look at is the hook gap. Choose one that measures 6mm and you will start to catch a lot more fish. Sure, these hooks seem very small but I have caught 20 pounds plus rainbow trout on size 8 nymph hooks. Fish like yellow-eyed mullet and garfish have quite small mouths. As for bait, little fish will eat almost anything. I use frozen mullet or whatever else I can find floating around in the bowels of the freezer.
Squid is always good as it is easy to store and cut up into small baits. The most important point about the bait is that it be cut up into little cubes to match the small hooks. When you bait up always ensure the barb is left exposed. Hours of fun can be had from this type of fishing. The tiddlers keep biting one after the other. It is surprising the amount of fight a four-inch warehou can put up on a light rod and two-kilo line.
Tiddlers are not the only fish in the harbour. Over the years I have caught many good size red cod. However, the prize catch now is the returning quinnat salmon that were released into the harbour a couple of seasons back. Some of these fish now weigh in excess of 3 kg. Conventional wisdom has it that the way to catch salmon is by either jigging or spinning with lures.
They will, however, take baited hooks simply hung over the side of the wharf. Air monitoring.
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