10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COCKABULLIES»
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cockabullies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
cockabullies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Destination Trout New Zealand
But the key to fishing success on these stillwaters is to understand the fish
movements in relation to the season, their eating habits and spawning behaviour.
The main food sources for Rotorua trout is smelt, inanga cockabullies and koura
...
Kent Fraser, Adam Clancey, 2006
Local cockabullies would be very much a local issue. Mr ACTING SPEAKER:
Order! I ask the honourable member to come back to the question before the
House. This is not the second reading of the Electoral Amendment Bill; it is the
debate ...
New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, 1978
3
New Zealand freshwater fishes: a guide and natural history
Cockabullies. The family Tripterygiidae is a large family of small fishes
characterised, as the name implies, by having three dorsal fins. They are squat,
stout, blunt- headed fishes. The pelvic fins are jugular, and each is reduced to
two thick, ...
Robert Montgomery McDowall, 1978
4
New Zealand Journal of Zoology
Other typically benthic- dwclling species recovered from YEP samples, but
absent from the diet of FCP's and LBP's, were polychactcs, sole, and cockabullies
. Hence, YEP's appeared to spend a significant amount of time foraging
dcmcrsally, ...
5
Camp-life in Fiordland, New Zealand: A Tale of the ...
The great inland sea is absolutely destitute of piscatorial life, save for a few stray
cockabullies and a kind of perch — which, however, no one ever sees. With trout
and other suitable fish thoroughly established in its waters and foaming ...
William McHutcheson, 1892
6
Where the Bellbird Sings
father had spoken so nostalgically about fishing for cockabullies here that
Elizabeth wanted to enter imaginatively into his boyhood world and capture
something of his simple delights. While she stood gazing down at the water as it
tumbled ...
7
The Roberts Report: Writings about and by John Roberts
The next day we rode up the slopes of Mt Tongariro to visit the Ketetahi springs
and came upon a garden filled with silver-headed children who darted away like
cockabullies in a tidal pool. We sought directions from the large, impressively ...
John Roberts, Margaret Clark, 1999
Zac was busy catching cockabullies (tiddly fish) in a plastic bread bag that he
waded into the weedy edge of the lake with to scoop through the murky water.
Every so often he scurried back to us to hold up his bag (which was fast springing
...
9
Round the World: With a Loop Thrown in
But nine years ago salmon trout were introduced from the old country, and have
thriven so well (probably on the " cockabullies") that fishing in the lake has
become an important industry. 7th June. We have been lounging about
Queenstown all ...
10
In Her Own Words: Women's Memoirs from Australia, New ...
... therefore, in the 'finds keeps' tradition, belonging to us. We soon learned to
know the creek, too, in its every change of flow regulated by the water in the
reservoir. We knew the plants on its banks and in the creek the rocks,
cockabullies, eels ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COCKABULLIES»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
cockabullies is used in the context of the following news items.
Winter fishing calls for fresh approach
Their favourite prey includes cockabullies, sprats, jack mackerel and baby snapper. Fresh Water. At a fishing contest at Lake Tarawera last ... «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
Online television makes for fast prey
My daughters played in the snow fed stream below the hut, trying to catch the teeming shoals of cockabullies' and smelts that inhabit the ... «Stuff.co.nz, Apr 15»
Big dry killing 'thousands of fish'
... relocate the trapped fish, with several others coming to the river to help move the freshwater crayfish, cockabullies, eels and other native fish. «New Zealand Herald, Mar 15»
Momorangi Bay tops for camping experience
If it's a Kiwi camping experience you're after, stay at Momorangi Bay. There's fishing off the wharf, icecreams from the camp shop, cockabullies ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jan 15»
dam fine piece of paradise
We'd park by the river, unpack a rug and a picnic basket and spend the day swimming, throwing rocks, catching cockabullies and eventually ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 14»
A wing and a prayer
''The kids have been giving it cockabullies they've caught and it's been eating shellfish as well.'' Mr Caldwell said the injury looked as though it ... «Otago Daily Times, Apr 14»
Rubbish strewn in stream 'disgusting'
We used to look for cockabullies. "Now it's just disgusting." Mr TeRangi said that, while everyone should take responsibility for the way they ... «Manawatu Standard, Mar 14»
Litter a problem say locals
"There is a noticeable fall off in small river life, for example fly larva and cockabullies. There is also a lot more algae in the river due to the ... «Timaru Herald, Oct 13»
Wheeling in the big fish
Growing up on a farm in Albury in South Canterbury allowed him to indulge his passion through eeling and catching cockabullies in streams ... «The Press, Apr 13»
Why our whitebait are at risk
We never caught whitebait there in the summer - just herring and cockabullies with occasional cod. The big river polluters in those days were ... «Stuff.co.nz, Aug 12»
