Salmon Fishing. Tips, methods and techniques, best lures: ticers, ZSalmon Fishers – 14 Different Types – Irreverent Though Often Accurate
Home » Salmon Salmon Fishers – by Linley Irreverent, funny, but sometimes accurate observations of fellow salmon fishers by someone with a finely tuned eye! Salmon Fishers at the Rakaia River. There can be long periods between fish. Since indulging myself in semi-retirement and taking up salmon fishing three years ago, I have been More...
The Best Salmon Fishing Rivers New Zealand Map – 27 waters in all
Home » Salmon The Best Salmon Fishing Rivers in New Zealand What salmon fishing in Canterbury is all about. Charles Smith with Hurunui River mouth silver. Condition seemed to be better this year (2015-2016) with More...
How to Catch Salmon – 12 Tips to get you started
How to Catch Salmon – 12 Tips to get you started by Allan Burgess Lyndsay Bishop (left), and Allan Burgess with limit bags from the Waimakariri River. How to catch salmon comes down to knowledge and persistence. More...
To catch four salmon from four different rivers during just one season
Hurunui River 14 lb salmon 31 December 2007. The four rivers were the Hurunui, Waimakariri, Rakaia and Rangitata Greg Martin’s run of good luck started on the 26th of December 2007 with a 16lb salmon from More...
Salmon Salvage at Highbank Powerstation on the Rakaia River (updated)
Salmon Salvage at Highbank by Len Issit Len Isitt with two monster salmon at Highbank 25 March 1996. Photograph, Len Isitt. Salmon Salvage Photographs by Len Issit and Allan Burgess The salmon in the foreground More...
Finding Salmon – The Hunt for Houdini – A Canterbury Salmon Story
Home » Salmon Finding Salmon – The Hunt for Houdini by Linley “Honestly I had one on but it got away. I have a vivid mental picture of the salmon I might just as easily have caught, and I’ve even More...
Salmon Fishing in the Pouring Rain – Early Morning – Rakaia River Gut
Home » Salmon Salmon Fishing in the Pouring Rain with Charles Smith The author with a limit bag from the Rakaia River gut on a wet, windy morning. It was a rainy miserable morning for salmon fishing – but More...
Rakaia River Salmon Fishing Contest Photographs
Rakaia River Salmon Contests Photographs 2003-2010 Photographs Allan Burgess A second gallery will be posted on this page soon! More...
Landlocked Quinnat Salmon – Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
Home » Salmon Allan Burgess with a landlocked salmon caught trolling in Lake Coleridge, Canterbury high country. They are good fighters and will take almost any lure – though bibbed minnows seem to work the More...
Salmon Fishery in Crisis? South Island Sea-Run Salmon Numbers Down
Home » Salmon 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 now. We haven’t More...