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.
Brook Trout - Salvelinus-fontinalis The brook char or brook trout - Salvelinus fontinalis, was first introduced into New Zealand in 1877.…
Landlocked Quinnat salmon fisheries are sustained by artificial stocking Landlocked Quinnat Salmon are regularly released into various South Island lakes by…
Sockeye Salmon - Oncorhynchus nerka - only landlocked stocks are found in New Zealand Most New Zealand freshwater anglers will have…
Also called King, Chinook and Quinnat Salmon Also known as King salmon and Chinook salmon, this species was successfully introduced…
The Tench - Tinca tinca Considering the extensive liberations that are known to have taken place in the 1860s and…
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Fishing for Eels Some coarse fishing clubs include eels in their fishing events Eels on the prowl, Canterbury New Zealand…
Perch - Perca fluviatilis - introduced freshwater fish Perch are a European freshwater fish species first introduced into New Zealand…
Sea-Run Brown Trout Fishing in Canterbury Video: Sea-Run Trout Fishing in Canterbury New Zealand Description: Sea-Run Trout Fishing in Canterbury…
Eel on a Rapala with Allan Burgess I had been fishing a Rapala Countdown bibbed minnow close to the bank…
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