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Whitebait Run At Paturau

Paturau is not the easiest place to reach. In fact, to get there you have to drive to the West Coast. But at the end of that long drive (a very beautiful one, to be sure) through Pakawau, West Haven and Mangarakau, is the Paturau River and the very good chance of some good white-baiting. Strangely enough, when we were there, men were in the minority on the riverbank.

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Dorothy McNabb (right), Riwaka, and Agnes Goodwin, of Nelson, discuss prospects and watch for a run

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Ngara Boyce, of Motueka, has her eyes firmly fixed on the area between bed and surface

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Joy for Nora

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Tom Ratcliffe caught his share

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Nora Roberts looking downstream and hoping (this spot is only a few hundred yards from the river's mouth)