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 net. One of the first laws of whitebaiting is that the river mouth will More...
Lake Benmore Trout Fishing – A Week In Paradise By Ken Twyman
Lake Benmore Brass Monkey Trout Fishing Trip By Ken Twyman Time for a lunch break! Note the warm clothing and neoprene chest high waders More...
Mackenzie Country Canals Fishing Tips – How to Fish the Canals – Video
Home » Whitebaiting Tips for Fishing the Mackenzie Country Canals by Allan Burgess This short fat brown trout was caught in the Ohau 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 More...
Lake Alexandrina Winter Fishing – Mackenzie Country Trout Fly Fishing
Home » Whitebaiting Lake Alexandrina Winter Fishing – Mackenzie Country Trout Fly Fishing by Muzza Video: a quick look More...
Lake Heron – at 6.3 sq kms the largest of the Ashburton Lakes
Home » Whitebaiting Spin fishing around the shoreline of Lake Heron. In the background Mt Sugarloaf is shrouded by low cloud. Lake More...
Ashburton Lakes: Ten lakes make up the Ashburton Lakes Group
Home » Whitebaiting The old Single Men’s Quarters at Hakatere Corner once provided accommodation for farm workers and shearing More...
Lake Emma and Lake Roundabout – Ashburton Lakes, Fly and Spin Fishing
Lakes Emma and Roundabout A typical brown trout from Lake Emma weighing around 4 to 5lb. It is the darkest I’ve seen so far! More...
Maori Lakes in the Central South Island Fish & Game Region
Home » Whitebaiting Maori Lakes – O Tu Wharekai View looking north over one of the two Maori Lakes from the Hakatere Heron Road. More...
Arawata River Mouth Kahawai on Saltwater Fly & Ultra Light Spin Gear
Home » Whitebaiting Arawata River Mouth Kahawai on Saltwater Fly & Ultra Light Spin Gear with Dick Marquand Aaron with a hard fighting kahawai landed on a saltwater fly off More...
Jackson Bay, Westland – Sea fishing for groper, cod, sharks, tuna – video
Home » Whitebaiting Jackson Bay Wharf, Westland – Great Surfcasting, Boat Launching, and Sea Fishing Video Video title: Jackson Bay Wharf, South Westland – Fishing More...
Mapourika, Lake, Salmon and Trout Fishing – Westland
Lake Mapourika – Brown Trout and Quinnat Salmon Located 10 km north of Franz Joseph in one of the most beautiful scenic parts of New Zealand. The salmon fishing is variable 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 » Whitebaiting Surfcasting Tips for Beginners New Zealand Casting over the surf behind the old railway station at Kaikoura. with Allan Burgess In Surfcasting Tips More...
Pyramid Lead Surfcasting Sinker – Holds well on the sea bed
Pyramid Sinker Pyramid Lead Sinker The pyramid sinker is ideal when fishing over both stony and sandy bottoms. It still More...
Making Sinkers and Jig-Heads
Leadheads are straight runners but are cheap to produce. There work well trolled or cast. They are one of the few More...
Salmon Fishing in the Pouring Rain – Early Morning – Rakaia River Gut
Salmon Fishing in the Pouring Rain with Charles Smith It was a rainy miserable morning for...
Landlocked Quinnat Salmon – Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
Landlocked Quinnat salmon fisheries are sustained by artificial stocking Landlocked Quinnat Salmon are regularly released into various...
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...
Kaikoura Coast Fishing Part 2 – Salmon fishing, tips, spots, species
Kaikoura Coast Fishing, Part 2 – Tips, spots, species Kaikoura More...
Coarse Fishing – Getting Started with a Basic Float Fishing Kit
Assembling a Basic Float Fishing Kit for Coarse Fishing A well set-up coarse angler. Setting up a basic set More...
Tench Fishing in New Zealand – Course Fish Species
The Tench – Tinca tinca Considering the extensive liberations that are known to have taken place in the 1860s and the..Paternoster Coarse Fishing Rig – Ideal when windy and after dark
The Paternoster An old-fashioned and unusual name for a simple technique. It developed from a legering background although the float fishing..Trout Fishing With Rapala Minnows
Trout Fishing With Rapala Minnows by Bryce Stupples Rapala Countdown CD5 (5cm in length). My first More...
Directions to Stony Creek – the Secret Society and Angling Elitism
Directions to Stony Creek by Paul Corliss There are many maxims relative to good fishing but three of the most obvious follow..Condition Factor of Trout and Salmon – What is it and how to calculate it?
Trout Condition Factor By Dick Marquand Trout anglers and those involved with the management of our trout and salmon fisheries are often heard..Brook Char or Brook Trout – Salvelinus-fontinalis – Small Populations
Brook Trout – Salvelinus-fontinalis The brook char or brook trout – Salvelinus fontinalis, was first introduced into New Zealand in 1877. The..
Lake Lyndon in the Canterbury high country is well stocked with trout
Lake Lyndon Named by Edward Jollie, Lake Lyndon nestles near the top of Porters Pass. It really is a Canterbury high..
Groynes Small Fishing Lakes – near Christchurch – juniors under 17 years only
Groynes Small Fishing Lakes and “Take A Kid Fishing” Days Only juniors under the age of 17 years are permitted to..
Buying Your First Boat – Tips, advice, and points to consider
Buying your first boat – Tips, advice and points to consider With Allan Burgess Before buying your first boat there is a..
