Trolling for Trout and Salmon with down-riggers and flat-lines
Trolling flat-lines on Lake Coleridge. Trolling for Trout 1. Trolling for trout without a down-rigger? You certainly don’t need a down-rigger on your boat to catch fish. Trolling for trout with nothing on your line other than your lure is called flat-lining in the United States. A down-rigger is an additional fishing tool like any other but it More...
Lake Coleridge Fishing Tips: Beginners Guide to Fishing Lake Coleridge
Fishingmag.co.nz editor Allan Burgess with a typical salmon caught spin fishing at Canterbury’s Lake Coleridge. Lake Coleridge Fishing Tips This article is aimed at helping the complete beginner angler who More...
Lake Henrietta Trout Spinning and Fly Fishing – Canterbury High Country
Lake Henrietta Lake Henrietta comprises two small lakes side by side on the shingle Harper Road just north of Lake Selfe. Surrounded by snow-capped mountains on all sides the scenery around Lake Henrietta is grand! More...
Caples and Greenstone Rivers, and the Black Rock, Otago
Home » Destinations S.I. Caples and Greenstone Rivers, and the Story of the Black Rock by Monty Wright Monty Wright with 12 lb rainbow hen from the Caples River. Photograph John Todd. It was a beautiful clear morning More...
Lake Coleridge, Canterbury High Country – Trout and Landlocked Salmon Fishing MAP
Lake Coleridge Map Lake Coleridge Map also showing the smaller lakes that make up the Coleridge group. Map: 1:50,000. Each grid square represents 1 km. Map Sourced from NZTopo50-BW20. Crown Copyright Reserved. Coleridge More...
Rakaia River Mouth a Top Spot for Sea-Run Trout Fishing
Surf fishing the Rakaia River mouth at first light for kahawai and sea-run brown trout. Rakaia River Mouth Sea-Run Trout Fishing Some years the Rakaia River can experience unusually low flows over summer. During More...
Lake Selfe Trout Fishing – High Country Brown and Rainbow Trout
Home » Destinations S.I. Spin fishing is permitted on Lake Selfe and is a leisurely way to while away the hours. Vegetation to the water’s edge can make the fly rod difficult to use in some places. There More...
Lake Coleridge Fish & Game High Country Opening Fishing Competition 2011
Lake Coleridge Opening Fishing Contest Climbing out of our warm climate controlled 4×4 truck at Lake Selfe for this year’s Canterbury High Country Opening Weekend was a bit of a shock. It was freezing More...
Oreti River, Southland, Quality Brown Trout Fishing on Spinner and Fly
Oreti River – ”If it is over your ankles fish it” by Bryce Stupples My initial excitement saw me predicting 10lbs plus, however, the scales said 8lb even. Still, I let out a whoop and a holler and More...
Deep-Sea Fishing Adventures Aboard Cygnet Charters – Dryden Bay
Deep-Sea Fishing Adventures Aboard Cygnet Charters by Lex Coutts Bryan’s first two groper – Cook Strait. Photo: Lex Coutts. Deep-Sea Fishing. It never ceases to amaze me how anglers from anywhere in More...
