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Kōrero: Recreational sea fishing

Fishing barefoot

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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

by Murray Ball

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Carl Walrond, Recreational sea fishing – Other recreational fishing, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/artwork/7849/fishing-barefoot (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Carl Walrond, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.