It is a black river. A night river. A thick winding slug that I came to love. It is a small North Canterbury spring-fed water and in its depths swirled the object of my visit, the hidden shadows of ...

In this article I will discuss some aspects of lake craft, successfully locating trout in lakes and lake fishing strategies. Canterbury has many large lakes and deciding where to fish on our lakes can ...

What will be of considerable interest to South Island salmon anglers are the differences between salmon fishing in New Zealand and Alaska. Alaska salmon fishing rivers are highly regulated to protect ...

The main angling methods in Lake Dunstan have been trolling as well as fly fishing and thread-lining from the shore. During January, the fishing slowed down considerably, no doubt partly due to the ...

”No”! he said emphatically. ”It’s my pool and I’ll get to it all in good time.” He was serious. “Let me rephrase the question,” I responded. I was stalling, looking for that gap in the verbal trafiic ...

Central South Island Fish and Game (CSIFG) and Meridian Energy continue to work together as custodians of New Zealand’s most popular freshwater angling catchment. CSIFGC and Meridian have entered into ...

A rainbow trout. One of the rewards of persistence. Last season I learnt a valuable lesson about persistence which has since paid off in increased numbers of fish caught or hooked. A friend took me to ...

The most common terrestrial insects are beetles and cicadas but also crickets, ants and grasshoppers are taken by hungry trout. Wasps and bees also fall onto the water. These insects live their lives ...

The yellowtail kingfish, or kingi as it is known in New Zealand game fishing circles, would be rated as one of the hardest fighting species of game fish available to the light tackle angler. The ...

History was far from my mind on this sunny Friday morning. Little did I suspect what fate had in store. I would soon discover a personal West Coast Trout, El Dorado. Meanwhile, my thoughts were firmly ...

The Glenorchy Races, the highlight of the local social calendar, was really an extension of New Year’s Eve. We had set up camp at the Wakatipu Anglers Club hut adjacent to Diamond Creek, not far from ...