On a warm, but overcast day last week, a group of volunteers from Genesis Energy and Spark joined together to get their hands dirty at a Waikato RiverCare project site. Just the beginning: The team being briefed on best planting practice. Taupiri Ki Waenganui (waenganui = the middle, between, intervening space) is so named as it is the final link in a stretch of the Waikato River that is now completely stock excluded between Taupiri and Huntly on the true right bank, thanks t

The Kilwell Lower Waikato River Trout Competition certainly started with a bang! By Wednesday, the half way mark in the 9 day contest, there had already been 56 fish weighed and entered, with 25 out of the 48 entrants having already caught fish. The end of the competition, which finished 2pm on Sunday the 18th October, saw 125 trout caught and recorded at the competition weigh-in stations. Junior angler, Levi King, shows of his catch. Credit: Steve Sharpe The quantity of fish