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.

Blue rainbow trout from Lake Coleridge, Canterbury high country. Photograph, Allan Burgess.
  • Freshwater Fishes
    • Blue Salmon and Rainbow Trout from Lake Coleridge – A Genetic Mutation

    Blue Salmon and Rainbow Trout By Allan Burgess What are the chances of you catching.

    11/03/2022
    Totally freshwater resident (= “residual”) NZ sockeye salmon from Larch Stream, Lake Ohau. The top two are females, the bottom one is a male. Photo. R Goode. To Sea. There are no steelhead rainbow trout in New Zealand.
  • Freshwater Fishes
  • Trout
    • Steelhead in New Zealand – To Sea or Not to Sea? Often the Question

    Steelhead in New Zealand – To Sea or Not to Sea? The Story of Sea-Run.

    10/02/2022
    Giant Eels - In Search of Monsters by Tony Stevens.
  • Freshwater Fishes
    • Giant Eels and the Search for Monsters – fishing for real leviathans

    By Tony Stevens The story begins when my 6ft plus son lost a monumental tug.

    06/01/2022
    A rather slender landlocked Atlantic salmon from North America. Sea-run Atlantics are much bigger.
  • Freshwater Fishes
  • Salmon
    • Atlantic Salmon – Salmo salar – A Strange and Tragic Story in NZ

    Atlantic Salmon – Salmo salar – The strange and tragic story of Atlantic salmon in.

    30/10/2021
    Landlocked Quinnat Salmon - Oncorhynchus tshawytscha caught in Lake Coleridge.
  • Freshwater Fishes
  • Salmon
    • Landlocked Quinnat Salmon – Oncorhynchus tshawytscha – Updated

    Landlocked Quinnat salmon fisheries were sustained by artificial stocking Landlocked Quinnat Salmon are no longer.

    24/07/2021
    Sockeye Salmon - Oncorhynchus nerka. This magnificent sea-run male sockeye salmon was caught and photographed in its native North America. Sockeye is one of the smallest of the seven species of Pacific salmon. They range in size from 24 (61cm) to 33 (83cm) inches in length and weigh between 5 (2.2kg) and 15 (6.8 kg) pounds (National Geographic). This is clearly a very big male fish. Image by Barbara Jackson from Pixabay
  • Freshwater Fishes
  • Salmon
    • Sockeye Salmon – Oncorhynchus nerka – Waitaki River Catchment – Video

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

    13/07/2021
    Redfin 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.

    03/05/2022
    Rudd - Scardinius erythophthalmus
  • Coarse Fishing
  • Freshwater Fishes
    • Rudd – Coarse Fish Species – New Zealand Freshwater Fishes

    Rudd – Scardinius erythophthalmus One of the species of coarse fish that we target here.

    05/10/2021
    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.

    24/06/2021
    Sea-Run Chinook salmon caught at the Waimakariri River mouth.
  • 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,.

    06/06/2021
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