Although Parore are plentiful in the warmer coastal waters of New Zealand’s upper North Island it is not usually targeted by ...

Waimakariri River trout and salmon fishing is excellent in the lower river between October and April. The best time for the sea-run brown trout is October to December. The best period for salmon ...

“Old Trout Fishermen never die, they just get tangled up in their lines.” Why the Best Nymphs are Often the Simple Ones. There’s a saying around something like that which you might see on one of those ...

Southlander Ken Hay had a fascination for tuna. During the late summer months, while fishing for blue cod in Foveaux Strait, he had often seen southern bluefin tuna leaping from the surface of the sea ...

Mackinaw trout Salvelinus namaycush. This picture is of an 8kg hen fish held at the Wanaka hatchery. You can tell Mackinaw from rainbow and brown trout by the presence of pale yellow-green spots on ...

Late winter and early spring is a time when trout will be deep and will generally not feed at the surface. One of the best ways to get a fly to the trout is with a spinning tackle. Here is a spinning ...

The brook char or brook trout – Salvelinus fontinalis, was first introduced into New Zealand in 1877. The early acclimatization societies released huge numbers of brook trout throughout New Zealand in ...

Hundreds of sooty shearwaters, white-fronted terns, and mollymawks searched the surface of the sea for the schooling anchovies that were being herded to the surface by the predatory tuna. The small ...

Perch are a European freshwater fish species first introduced into New Zealand waterways in the 1860s. Those early introductions came from Europe via Tasmania, Australia. Although they are present ...

Most albacore tuna measure around 50 to 80 cm in length and weigh around 4 to 5kg. Large specimens can reach 130 cm in length and weigh as much as 55kg. The most notable feature of the albacore tuna ...

On 24 August 1994, I chaired a meeting in Queenstown which wound up the Fiordland Game Fishing Club. For me, it was a sad occasion, having served as President from 1978 to 1985. However, the club had ...