A former Black Power Whanganui president has a plan to stop young people getting stuck in the criminal justice system.
Elvis Heke has drafted a plan targeted at stopping criminal behaviour before it starts - by getting young people on the brink of getting in trouble out fishing.
He's calling on the country's best anglers to join his Make it Count programme where they would take troubled young people out fishing and teach them how it's done.
Heke was fed up with what he called the old cycles dumping difficult young people on the judicial and prison systems.
"This is the last place I want to see them end up in," he said.