Here's Alison: The NZ Bow Hunters' Classic
Bow hunters who shoot carp are welcomed in New Zealand, as Alison Ross's poem reveals.
The warning is out
Koi carp beware
The bow hunters are coming
From just everywhere
They are flying cross oceans
They are loading their ute
They are buying new gear
For this year's awesome shoot
They are heading for the Waikato
To a coal mining town
Where Koi carp in lakes
And waterways abound
Polluting our rivers
And all of our lakes
Fouling what was clean
For goodness sake
This year is the seventeenth
Of this world classic event
Bring your bows and your arrows
And go where the Koi carp went
Cause fast as you shoot
And shoot you sure will
You bow hunters will never
Get a big enough kill
To clean out all the rivers
And lakes here about
Cause the Koi carp breed
An excessive amount
In the twelve years they live
They spawn millions of young
A bow hunter's sport
For years to come
While the lakes and the rivers
Are polluted and worse
And habitat destruction
By Koi carp is a curse
So all you bow hunters
Are welcome to call
Join the war on these pests
And benefit all
