We all know the famous Three King’s Islands as a great fishery for marlin. New Zealand’s best marlin fishery is indeed the banks surrounding the Islands and access to the area is a simple task of ...

Although Parore are plentiful in the warmer coastal waters of New Zealand’s upper North Island it is not usually targeted by most anglers. It is an herbiferous species although not exclusively so.

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...