Freshwater Fishes

This category includes Brook Trout, Brown Trout, Mackinaw Trout, Rainbow Trout. Coarse fish have their own category. You must purchase a Fish & Game New Zealand fishing licence to fish for the following species: Brown trout, Rainbow trout, American brook trout or char, Lake trout or char, Atlantic salmon, Quinnat or chinook salmon, Sockeye salmon, Perch, Tench, Rudd (Auckland/Waikato Fish and Game Region only). Any hybrid of the above species.

Sockeye Salmon - Oncorhynchus nerka
  • Freshwater Fishes
  • Salmon
    • Sockeye Salmon – Oncorhynchus nerka – Limited to Waitaki River Catchment – Video

    Sockeye Salmon – Oncorhynchus nerka – only landlocked stocks are found in New Zealand Most New.

    25/05/2020
    There is no fish prettier than this small brook trout – Salvelinus-fontinalis. Photo courtesy of Cory Scott. Note the white on the leading edges of the fins.
  • Freshwater Fishes
    • Brook Trout or Brook Char – Salvelinus-fontinalis – Small Populations

    Brook Trout – Salvelinus-fontinalis The brook char or brook trout – Salvelinus fontinalis, was first introduced.

    09/09/2020
    Landlocked Quinnat Salmon.
  • Freshwater Fishes
  • Salmon
    • Landlocked Quinnat Salmon – Oncorhynchus tshawytscha

    Landlocked Quinnat salmon fisheries are sustained by artificial stocking Landlocked Quinnat Salmon are regularly released into.

    12/09/2018
    Large Quinnat salmon caught at the mouth of Canterbury's Waimakariri River. Note the bright silver colour when the salmon are fresh from the sea.
  • Freshwater Fishes
  • Salmon
    • Quinnat Salmon – Oncorhynchus-tshawytscha – introduced by 1905

    Also called King, Chinook and Quinnat Salmon Also known as King salmon and Chinook salmon,.

    04/01/2021
    Tech are a dark olive colour. Smaller fish are coloured brown.
  • Coarse Fishing
  • Freshwater Fishes
    • Tench Fishing in New Zealand – Course Fish Species

    The Tench – Tinca tinca Considering the extensive liberations that are known to have taken.

    22/10/2018
    Sea-Run Trout e-book
  • Freshwater Fishes
    • Free 100 page Sea-Run Trout E-book and Trout & Salmon Fishing Newsletter

    Free E-book with Trout & Salmon Newsletter At last a fishing newsletter worth subscribing to. Best of.

    21/05/2020
    Hamish Milner with a 20 lb eel caught at the Yyton River mouth area. Many fishermen have reported large eels swimming near them while they have been fishing around Lake Coleridge at night. Photograph courtesy of Noela Mitchell.
  • Coarse Fishing
  • Freshwater Fishes
    • Fishing for Eels – Eels are a NZ Native Species

    Fishing for Eels Some coarse fishing clubs include eels in their fishing events Eels on.

    28/11/2019
    A fine specimen freshwater perch – Perca fluviatilis.
  • Coarse Fishing
  • Freshwater Fishes
    • Perch – Perca fluviatilis – Redfin Perch Introduced freshwater fish

    Perch – Perca fluviatilis – introduced freshwater fish Perch are a European freshwater fish species.

    19/11/2020
    Sea-run trout fishing video featured image
  • Freshwater Fishes
  • Sea-Run Brown Trout
  • Trout
    • Sea-Run Brown Trout Video – migrate to sea but spawn in rivers

    Sea-Run Brown Trout Fishing in Canterbury Video: Sea-Run Trout Fishing in Canterbury New Zealand Description:.

    15/09/2019
    Freshwater eel taken on a Rapala Lure.
  • Freshwater Fishes
    • Freshwater Eel on a Rapala Countdown CD7

    Eel on a Rapala with Allan Burgess I had been fishing a Rapala Countdown bibbed.

    22/10/2018
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