There's a lot in this life to being satisfied with what you've got.
It's just being here in this beautiful environment. It's just wonderful.
There are a lot of people in the world who dream about coming to a place like this and catching a fish.
I've been fishing in all my life. I've been fishing on Lake Harwea before I was born and made keen on it. Always wanted to go fishing.
Fish on! Yo!
I live in Lake Harwea, which is 15 kilometres from Wanaka, part of the Upper Clutha Valley.
My ancestors arrived in New Zealand from Scotland in 1874.
Lake Harwea and Wanaka are both glacial lakes. The last time the glaciers came through here was about 18,000 years ago.
They basically formed the mountains and the valleys and the lakes that we see today.
One of the nice things about living in Wanaka is the climate is nice and clean.
In the summer it's hot and dry and in the winter it's cold and clear and crisp.
The lake is different every day. My customers see something different every day.
I never get sick of it. I've been here for 50 odd years and it's different every day for me too.
This is my house behind me. My parents bought this place in 1955.
They shipped it out of an old mud cottage. This house was a flash house then because it had electricity.
It's a marvellous place to live. Beautiful.
When I was a boy there was no ski fields here, there was no computers or any organised sports.
We just roamed the hills and we roamed the lake.
I've worked with a lot of old machinery now and I've just about had enough.
It's not an economic thing to do, mess around with old gear.
You'll be using machinery to make money, not that he's fixing it all the time.
There's good stocks of fish in Lake Harware. Good numbers of fish.
Rainbow trout, brown trout, landlocked chinock salmon.
The fish always seem to be in good condition. There's always good fish there, always has been.
How can you describe that? You've just got to live it.
