"My name is Larry Burke and I am an addicted Salmon Angler…"
ishing for river run salmon is unlike any other type of freshwater angling in New Zealand. For one there are not many of them and they don’t hang around like trout, at least not in the lower and middle parts of rivers. Another fact is that in any given salmon season around 70% of salmon anglers will not catch a salmon and around 15% of salmon anglers will get about 80% of the salmon harvest. At least that was until the annual harvest card was introduced in the 2021-22 season, restricting anglers to 2 killed fish a season. It is not unknown for a few anglers
