Trout Fisher Magazine

The first attempts to establish an ocean running salmon fishery failed and more; 24 shipments of Atlantic salmon ova from Europe and eastern America in all failed. With liberations from Auckland to Southland, a single Atlantic Salmon weighing 6.5kg,

Whenever lake surface water temperature is under 20ºC, there are few fishing locations better than a shoreline. Here the typically low odds of attracting passing lake trout attention to your lure are heightened by the rising lake bed, along which tro

As an angler, hunter and an observer on rivers and in the backcountry, even around town and even in the garden, I have noticed disturbing trends of declines in many species. Examples are insects, kingfishers, shining cuckoos. In the absence of scient

Nostalgia is a word I take to mean warm re-collections of our earlier years, remembering family times, friends, schooling, holidays, fashion – including music, food and others. Most fashion-related styles move on but some do bounce back into what aga

200 years ago, you could probably have found less adaptive native birds like these Whio – imitating the male blue duck’s whistle – the female rattles like a slowed-up mallard drake – all round the country. The main reason you cannot is simple: their

Clive and I had long dreamed of a return to the Mokihinui River system on the West coast, after enjoying our back-country fishing experience in 2000. Our initial plans for late February in 2017 were for a similar trip, starting at the fork of the Nor

My introduction to fishing began back in 1983, with dad, at a salmon competition at the Waitaki river mouth. Heading off, trudging over the stones, we met two anglers walking towards us with broad smiles and two of the biggest fish I've ever seen, th

University, a time in which people can live their wildest life and not worry about what their parents think; I know this all too well as a second year at the University of Canterbury. Yet, we all know that to live the life you want, you must pull you

As the end of another season approaches and I plan my final trip to the Rock, I take a moment to reflect on our first season in our larger and more comfortable van. Was it all worth the effort, time and expense? Yes, it was! Most trips to Lake Aviemo

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https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/130547880/upgrading-polluted-christchurch-stream-comes-with-62m-price-tag There is a hidden plaque in Hagley Park on the banks of Addington Brook recording the site where the first brown trout ova to arrive in N