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Webpages, eBooks, Videos and Fishingmag.co.nz Free Membership Allan Burgess at his favourite haunt: the tidal zone below the bridges on the Waimakariri River. I have fished this section for sea-run brown trout almost every spring for 30 years. Although there is always some fluctuation in fish numbers from year to year, for the most part, the fishing More...
Canterbury Low-Land Trout Fishery Pollution – Not All Doom and Gloom
Canterbury Low-Land Trout Fishery Pollution – Not All Doom and Gloom According to John Kent, as they say in Texas, the locals refer to their water as, “too thick to pour and too thin to plough?” Cattle More...
Rasmus Gabrielsson and Malcolm Bell Podcast Canterbury Salmon
Rasmus Gabrielsson talks with Malcolm Bell from The Complete Angler about the Canterbury Salmon Fishery by Allan Burgess Massive 35 lb salmon from the Waimakariri River. Caught before the 1995/1996 season when fish More...
Salmon Fishery in Crisis? South Island Sea-Run Salmon Numbers Down
Home » Allan's Fishing Blog Salmon Fishery in Crisis? by Allan Burgess Massive 38lb salmon taken in the Waimakariri River “back in the day” when the fishery was in much better shape than it is More...
No Camping at Lake Selfe in the Canterbury High Country
No Camping at Lake Selfe Selwyn District Council “No Camping” sign at Lake Selfe in the Canterbury High Country. Photograph by T. Austin. I must admit to being shocked and angry when I first discovered More...
Salmon Season Prospects for early 2017 – They’re Running up the Hurunui River
Salmon Season Prospects 2017 – from January Newsletter Two salmon caught by Simon McMillian at the mouth of the Hurunui River, North Canterbury, yesterday morning 17 January 2017. Simon is now at Ballinger’s More...
Closure of the Winter Eastern Zone NCF&G 1 May 2016
Closure of the Winter Eastern Zone NCF&G 1 May 2016 by Allan Burgess Closure of the Winter Eastern Zone I’m not in favour of reducing angling opportunities through fishery closures. However, I do understand More...
The Travelling Campervan Angler and Fishing in New Zealand
The Travelling Campervan Angler in New Zealand A small camper-van greatly extends your fishing range and makes camping away from home much more enjoyable. Nowadays it is possible to mount solar panels on the roof More...
Kahawai Licence – Do I need a fishing licence to fish at river mouths?
Kahawai licence – Do I need a licence when fishing at a river mouth? If you are fishing in freshwater and using gear that could reasonably be expected to catch sports fish (Trout, Salmon and Perch) you More...
Time to buy a new fishing reel
Seascape Major reel manufactured sometime in the 1970s or 1980s. It held 450 yards of 20 pound monofilament, and had a high speed 6:1 gear ratio. The star drag meant the gears were totally disengaged during casting. There More...