He was using my dad's rod at the time, I was using my rod. Yeah, it was nice," Hamm said. Maynard Rono also tags along with his dad's old rod, and was also hooked into fishing by James.

He is confident the lure a 12-minute train ride to Wellington and the opportunity to live near a river, and go trout fishing, kayaking or swimming, will bring in the city slickers from the Capital.

“Over $27 million of fishing assets belonging to Gisborne and the East Coast are tied up in Wellington, and it’s costing the region at least $77,000 a month,” Harry Mikaere, Chairman of the ...