Posts by Waikahe Olu Trout Unlimited

Hi Deane; Yes it sounds like a “Grinch Christmas” for you and your friends. So the latest news in NZ. Just today the government have imposed new controls to delay/prevent the spread of Omicron virus into New Zealand. Children ages 5-11 years can get a child dose of the Phfser vaccine from 17 January 2022. …

Unfortunately, Tim Cashdollar has stepped down from being our Chapter President.  On behalf of all the members, I would like to extend our warmest aloha to Tim, and all of his hard work, time and effort he put forth with our chapter, as a member and as our Chapter President. You will be missed… Deane…

Aloha Trout Unlimited Members I wanted to share with you an update from Maurice in New Zealand. Most importantly, is due to New Zealand’s covid policy they will allow most fully vaccinated travelers into the country by the end of April without a mandatory hotel quarantine, as it slowly emerges from what has been one…

Aloha Hawaii Trout Unlimited Members. It’s your chapter treasure reporting on my last trip to Kokee Kauai – October 2021. I had great dry conditions for my 10 days on Kauai. I did not lose a single day to bad weather. This trip was a mixed adventure where I wanted to check on 3 things:…

Aloha Trout Unlimited Members I wanted to share with you an email that I received from my good friend Maurice in New Zealand.  He is sharing his recent outing fishing Rangitikei River. So what is this all about, eh?  Well, “it just happened” we HAD to go out fishing for a few days! It was…

Aloha Trout Unlimited members I wanted to share with you an email that I received from my good friend Louie “The Fish” over in Maine and some pictures he sent to share with everyone. Aloha guys!I just returned from the east coast with a buddy here also from Hawaii. He got us a special invite…

Good morning Dean; Things are quite dynamic regarding COVID in New Zealand (NZ) at the moment. A few weeks back, one case of “Delta strain” was detected in Auckland, so immediately NZ went into Lockdown, Auckland Lockdown level 4 and the rest of NZ Level 3, with about two hours warning. This virus spread to…

Aloha Trout Unlimited members of the Waikahe’olu Hawaii chapter. I just returned from another great trip to Kauai.  I was up at the Kokee cabin from August 27th through September 7th and I had a number of project to complete. First, I returned to the Pu’u Lau Reservoir to see what the locals were catching.…

It surprising how a single “Delta” case can suddenly change the behavior of people in New Zealand. We started with signal case of Covid that prompted us to shut down for 3 days! Today we seem to have about 107 community cases and, with our small population of about 5 million, we have about 14,000…

Just wanted to update everyone as New Zealand remains COVID-free except for a few cases we find, in what we call border entry; during their stay of 14 days in Managed Isolation Quarantine in a 4 star Hotel. A normal day for me is not wearing a mask at all, maybe only on any public…