A farming accident put Dave Clouston in a wheelchair, but it has not stopped him getting out fishing.

The 47-year-old Rolleston agricultural business manager says now he just has to be more creative in finding good spots.

“There are certain locations that are out of the question. You can’t go to rocky rivers to do fly fishing. I mostly fish lakes and accessible rivers like the Waimakariri River and parts of the Rakaia River.”

All he would say of his favourite spot was it’s “somewhere up in the Rakaia Gorge”.

“It’s a secret location. Not many people know about it. It’s not a bad spot.”

But he was happy to divulge the location of where he caught his largest fish.

“It was an eight-pound brown trout at Lake Selfe, in the Lake Coleridge area.”

Clouston was injured about 13 years ago in a farming accident. Bales of hay came down on top of him.

“I was stacking hay and when I was cleaning up the barn floor the hay bales toppled over. I was hit by at least one big bale. I was conscious pretty soon after that and I did have a fairly good idea of how serious it was.”

Being in a wheelchair took some getting used to, with some bumbling at the beginning, but now he was “doing wheelies and bouncing over riverbeds”.

As well as fishing, Clouston also did some handcycling and hunting and he was thinking of doing the great Alexandra Easter Bunny Hunt at some point because both his children were into hunting.

“I mustered in the high country and hunting was always a part of recreation there.

“We go back down to South Canterbury to shoot rabbits and chase the occasional fallow deer. I just drive around shooting out the window.”

Growing up on a farm in Albury in South Canterbury allowed him to indulge his passion through eeling and catching cockabullies in streams around his home.

“I have been fishing since I was 7 or 8,” he says.

“Mainly it started with my father. He would take us to Lake Benmore or Lake Aviemore. That’s where it all started.”

Source: stuff.co.nz

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