The Complete Guide to Sea-Run Trout Fishing by Allan Burgess - Contents, Acknowledgements and Introduction The Complete Guide to Sea-Run Trout Fishing by Allan Burgess No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or otherwise without prior written…
Elephant Fish can be caught close to shore in Spring and Summer Callorhinchus milii Callorhynchus milii (Tas): Elephant fish, by Frank Edward Clarke. Purchased 1921. Te Papa (1992-0035-2278/121) The elephant fish is rather unusual. A large fleshy cartilaginous trunk protrudes from the snout and together with large wing-like pectoral fins combine to give a…
Rig Shark are Often Caught by Surfcasters at Night - aka: Lemonfish, smoothhound, gummy shark Rig - Mustelus lenticulatus, has numerous names including smoothhound, gummy shark and spotted dogfish. They are very good fish to eat and reasonably strong fighters. Rig shark is usually sold in the shops as Lemon Fish. This is a prime…
Egg Rolling - How to Drift Fish the Mackenzie Country Canals - Best Rod, Reel, and Terminal Rig for the Canals When you consider that a large trout or salmon hen fish can produce as many as 5,000 eggs that's a lot of fish-bite size protein parcels going into the food chain. Big rainbow…
Spinning for Trout with Lures, Softbaits and Bubble Floats By Allan Burgess For the novice angler wanting to catch his or her first trout, the vast range of fishing tackle available in many sports stores can be bewildering and confusing. Where do you begin? The answer to that question has, for many would-be anglers, been…
Sea Run Salmon Season Bag Limit - What does it mean for anglers? This is the first fishing season ever, starting on 1 October 2021, that Fish and Game NZ has taken the unprecedented step of introducing new regulations allowing for a sea-run salmon season bag limit. The new season bag limit, set at just 2…
New rules introduced to protect sea-run salmon fishery To help save New Zealand’s wild Chinook salmon species, a ground-breaking change to freshwater fishing regulations will introduce a season bag for sea-run salmon in the 2021/22 fishing season, in place of a daily catch limit. "The wild sea-run salmon fishery has been in decline for…
Game fishing is so mind blowing bottom fishing is mostly over looked! By Andrew Padlie We all know the famous Three King's islands as a great fishery for marlin. It's true that New Zealand's best marlin fishery is the banks surrounding the Islands and access to the area is a simple task of finding a…
Three Kings Islands Marlin Fishing, Northland, NZ By Andrew Padlie It had just come into winter and a memory of the past season still floats in the mind. That year I was lucky enough to venture north for the fishing trip of a lifetime. So far north, in fact, 50-60 miles off the top of…
Gemfish - Rexea solandri - Synonyms = Jordanidia solandri and Rexea furcifera Waite, 1911 Other names for Gemfish: Southern Kingfish, Hake (Tikati), and King Barrcouta in Australia The name Gemfish is in common use for this species in New Zealand. Interestingly David H. Graham makes no mention of the name Gemfish in A Treasury of New Zealand Fishes published in 1953. He referred to…
Elephant Fish can be caught close to shore in Spring and Summer Callorhinchus milii Callorhynchus milii (Tas): Elephant fish, by Frank Edward Clarke. Purchased 1921. Te Papa (1992-0035-2278/121) The elephant fish is rather unusual. A large fleshy cartilaginous trunk protrudes from the snout and together with large wing-like pectoral fins combine to give a…