You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. Southerner Denis Nyhon will be remembered as a man of the land, air and sea.
Shawn McAvinue reports. Southern farmer and fisherman Denis Nyhon is remembered as a hard worker, passionate about improving the land and seizing an opportunity. After a more than four-year battle with pancreatic cancer, he died at home on Long Gully Station, near Tarras, last month, aged Denis Nyhon showing a crayfish in the s. Hunting and fishing shop owner Allan Millar offered him a job as an apprentice gunsmith in Milton and also introduced him to clay target shooting, a sport which became a lifelong passion.
His wins included the South Island two-man clay target title with his late friend Barney Begg and the prize included a trip for the pair to compete in Wagga Wagga, Australia.
Denis Nyhon capturing a boar during a pest control operation at Long Gully Station. He was a life member of the Wanaka Gun Club and Wanaka Rodeo Club, suppling grazing and 14 years of sponsorship to the rodeo club.
Denis Nyhon moving a flock of merino sheep at Long Gully Station. The following year he returned to Finegand to work as a legger. In the off season, he worked on fishing boats for Allan Dunford and Marty Taiaroa trawling off the east coast.
