How to Catch Salmon – 12 Tips to get you started
How to Catch Salmon – 12 Tips to get you started by Allan Burgess Lyndsay Bishop (left), and Allan Burgess with limit bags from the Waimakariri River. How to catch salmon comes down to knowledge More...
Okarito River Whitebaiting, Westland, New Zealand
Okarito West Coast Whitebait Run by Keith Reinke Richard Hunter dragging in the surf at Okarito. All the locals, as well as ourselves, More...
Hurunui River Whitebaiting – Fishing Shifting Sands by Linley
Hurunui River Whitebaiting by Linley All that effort getting to the Hurunui River mouth only to be faced with a rough sea and empty More...
How to Catch Whitebait – An Easy Beginner’s Guide with Allan Burgess – Video
Home » Salmon How to Catch Whitebait for Fun and a Feed In this article, we explain a bit about whitebaiting and offer a few tips More...
Green Frogs and Whitebait – An Unusual West Coast Fishing Method
Green Frogs and Whitebait by Chris Tonkin A little green frog similar to the frogs harnessed by Robbie and Bert. The last rays of a More...
Conservation of the Whitebait Fishery the Five Species of Galaxias
Home » Salmon Conservation of the Whitebait Fishery by Peter Ravenscroft An adult Inanga (Galaxias maculatus). This fish makes up More...
Hapuka Estuary Walkway Westland – Whitebait and native birds – Video
Hapuka Estuary Wildlife Sanctuary – Tui, Kereru, Korimako, Whitebait Video Title: Hapuka Estuary Wildlife Sanctuary – More...
Whitebaiting in the Arawhata, Waiatoto, Turnbull, and Okuru Rivers
Home » Salmon “On a single day in 1944, Des Nolan famously caught 130 kerosene tins of whitebait single-handed in the Waiatoto More...
Make a Whitebait Cleaning Screen to Separate Bait from Debris Video
Whitebait Cleaning Screen Video Making a Whitebait Cleaning Screen. Sometimes the best whitebaiting takes place when the river and More...
Surfcasting Birdlings Flat and Kaitorete Spit – steep shelving shingle beach
Surfcasting Birdlings Flat and Kaitorete Spit In my younger days I spent many an afternoon and evening surfcasting at Birdlings Flat – also called Baileys Beach. I remember More...
Surfcasting Tips for Beginners NZ – Tackle, baits, when, where & how to catch fish!
Home » Salmon Surfcasting Tips for Beginners New Zealand Casting over the surf behind the old railway station at Kaikoura. with Allan Burgess In Surfcasting Tips for Beginners More...
Black Rock, Taylors Mistake, Banks Peninsula – Sevengill Shark
The author with a sevengill shark taken at Black Rock. Black Rock, Taylors Mistake, Banks Peninsula Looking for somewhere to go fishing during the holidays? Here is a good spot. More...
Mackenzie Country Canals Fishing Tips – How to Fish the Canals – Video
Home » Salmon Tips for Fishing the Mackenzie Country Canals by Allan Burgess This short fat brown trout was caught in the Ohau Canal by Paul Spicer. I’d say it had been More...
Mackenzie Country Canals Mid-Winter Fishing – Angler Etiquette
Mackenzie Country Canals Mid-Winter Fishing – Angler Etiquette A huge rainbow trout is quickly weighed, photographed and released to fight another day. Mackenzie Country More...
Glimmy Brass Spoon Trout Spinner – An Oldie Very Effective Fish Taker
Home » Salmon Glimmy Brass Spoon by Allan Burgess Glimmy brass trout spoon lure or spinner bait. This brass spoon was known More...
Tasmanian Devil Trout Spin Fishing Lure or Aquafoil – Including rigging tips on video
Home » Salmon Tasmanian Devil Trout Spin Lure Tasmanian Devil in a rainbow trout pattern. Removing the wire and More...
Deep-Sea Fishing Adventures Aboard Cygnet Charters – Dryden Bay
Deep-Sea Fishing Adventures Aboard Cygnet Charters by Lex Coutts It never ceases to amaze me how...
Radio Tagging Wild Trout in the Wairau River, Marlborough
Radio Tagging Wild Trout in the Wairau River, Marlborough by Ben Grady The phone rang one...
Wairau River and Diversion, Marlborough Salmon and Trout Fishing
Wairau River and Wairau Diversion, Marlborough Sea-run trout, rainbow trout, salmon – plus whitebait, kahawai, red...
Scott, Peter – New Zealand ‘s Best Trout Flies – Compiled by Peter Scott
New Zealand ‘s Best Trout Flies Compiled by Peter Scott Size:245mm More...
Kahawai fishing on light spinning tackle, softbaits, and fly rod
Kahawai Fishing on light spinning tackle, soft baits, and the fly rod Other names for kahawai: Kopapa, More...
Arawata River Mouth Kahawai on Saltwater Fly & Ultra Light Spin Gear
Arawata River Mouth Kahawai on Saltwater Fly & Ultra Light Spin Gear with Dick Marquand When Aaron Horrell and I visited..Canterbury Winter Kahawai – surfcasting over the colder months
Expect a few Kahawai While Surfcasting Around the South Island Over Winter Arriving at the Birdlings Flat beach, just south of..Shimano Sienna 2500FD light weight spin fishing reel excellent value
Shimano Sienna 2500FD Shimano Sienna 2500FD The Shimano Sienna 2500FD is a light-weight trout spin fishing reel More...
Trout Fishing With Rapala Minnows
Trout Fishing With Rapala Minnows by Bryce Stupples My first introduction to the mighty Rapala was through a family friend who..Canterbury Lure Rod – for Salmon and Sea-run Trout – Video
Canterbury Lure Rod Canterbury Lure Rod Short Video A short video of the Canterbury Lure Rod in action by salmon anglers..Ling – Genypterus blacodes – Usually taken in deep-water
Ling – Cusk eels (family Ophidiidae) Ling is also called Hoka. Ling nowadays is considered a deepwater species found over muddy and..
Lake Selfe Trout Fishing – High Country Brown and Rainbow Trout
Lake Selfe Trout Fishing Well stocked with brown and rainbow trout Lake Selfe trout fishing takes place in what must be the..
Salmon Fishery in Crisis? South Island Sea-Run Salmon Numbers Down
Salmon Fishery in Crisis? by Allan Burgess I originally wrote and published this article Salmon Fishery in Crisis in July 2001...
Oreti River, Southland, Quality Brown Trout Fishing on Spinner and Fly
Oreti River – ”If it is over your ankles fish it” by Bryce Stupples “Sometimes flicking a fly or spinner in water..
