Story: Recreational sea fishing

Fishing barefoot

Fishing barefoot

New Zealand cartoonist Murray Ball’s cartoon strip Footrot Flats often featured flounder fishing. Cooch the farmer, with his dog Jess, demonstrates his technique of catching the fish with bare feet.

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Reference: Murray Ball, Footrot Flats: gallery 1. Auckland: Hodder Moa Beckett, 2005, p. 35
Cartoon by Murray Ball

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Carl Walrond, 'Recreational sea fishing - Other recreational fishing', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/artwork/7849/fishing-barefoot (accessed 25 April 2024)

Story by Carl Walrond, published 12 Jun 2006