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Weekly Fishing report for Central South Island and North Canterbury for 30 November 2023

WFR2324.30 Dwi Svensson tries her luck at near the mouth of the Rangitata River Phot by Nikki Dellaway

Friday is officially the first day of summer, and with that comes anticipation of some great fishing adventures to be had.

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Weekly Fishing report for Central South Island and North Canterbury for 23 November 2023

WFR2324.28 Riley Frost caught this fantastic brown trout from Loch Cameron on a black and gold paddle tail soft plastic photo by Eddie Pollard

Young angler Riley Frost caught a cracking brown from Loch Cameron earlier this week.

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Weekly Fishing Report for Central South Island and North Canterbury for November 16 2023

WFR2324.24 Blake Harper with a 2.5lbs salmon from Lake Tekapo Takapo Photo by Cameron Smith

Pictured right: Blake Harper with a 2.5lb salmon from Lake Tekapo - Takapō'. Credit: Cameron Smith.

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Weekly Fishing Report for Central South Island and North Canterbury for November 9 2023

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On Tuesday Fish & Game CEO Corina Jordan and Dame Lynda Topp launched the #ReWild campaign in Christchurch.

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Weekly Fishing Report for Central South Island and North Canterbury - 2 November 23

WFR2324.16 Peter Staub fishes the 2022 High Country Opening near Twizel Photo by R Adams

This Saturday, the 4th of November is a big day on the fishing calendar.

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Weekly Fishing report for Central South Island and North Canterbury for 19 October 2023

WFR2324.11 Mel Fowler with a fine Waitaki River brown trout

Mel Fowler, pictured above right, got in touch to report he had a great weekend fishing the Waitaki River recently catching trout on soft plastics, soft bait, and fly.

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Weekly Fishing Report for Central South Island and North Canterbury for 12 October 2023

WFR2324.08 Keith Gillespie enjoying a stunning mid week day at Lake Opuha Photo by R Adams

Early season, October/ November, is a great time for fishing – especially at our low country fisheries.

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Weekly Fishing Report for Central South Island and North Canterbury for October 5 2023

WFR2324.04 Flynn Scott frying up his Opening Day catch for lunch at Lake Opuha Opuaha photo by R Adams

Frying, BBQ, smoking, pie, curry – all favourite trout dishes were back on dinner plates last Sunday, Opening Day of the 2023/34 sports fishing season.

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Weekly Fishing Report for Central South Island and North Canterbury - 28 September 2023

WFR2324.01 Lenard Luke of Ashburton fishing the Waitaki River on the 2022 23 Opening Day credit Rhys Adams

Welcome back!

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Weekly Fishing Report for Central South Island and North Canterbury for 27 April 2023

WFR2224.72 A late season fish for a sea run salmon at the Rangitata Mouth photo credit Rhys Adams

Get your salmon card data into Fish & Game by May 7th so your data can be included in this year's calculations.

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Weekly Fishing Report for Central South Island & North Canterbury for April 20 2023

WFR222368 Bohdi Munro struggles under the weight of his biggest catch ever a 168 pound brown from the Mackenzie hydro canals photo by Justin Munro 1 copy 2

The early teenager catches the big brown trout when it comes to fishing the canals.

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Weekly Fishing Report For Central South Island & North Canterbury for April 13 2023

WFR2223.65 while waiting for the bite activities like board games can be played just make sure youre within 15 metres of your rod Photo by Rhys Adams

This week’s rain has put a bit of a dampener on the fishing, but the weather is looking to settle, and river flows to recede – more on that in...

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Weekly Fishing report for Central South Island and North Canterbury regions for April 6 2023

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While out and about on Monday, I ran into keen angler Murray Bransgrove on the Te Ana a Wai (Tengawai) River, who was stalking a couple of browns with a...

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Weekly Fishing Report for Central South Island and North Canterbury for March 30 2023

WFR2223.63 Oetse Kempkers caught this chunky salmon at Ohau C Canal on Wednesday photo by Hamish Stevens

CSI Fish & Game Ranger Hamish Stevens was on duty at the canals on Wednesday, undertaking licence and compliance checks and our Canal Angler Survey.

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Weekly Fishing Report for Central South Island and North Canterbury for March 23 2023

WFR2223.61 Checked and all legal Waitaki River angler Darren Shields and his companions are checked on by Ranger Hamish Stevens photo by P Van Klink

Forty-Six Waitaki River Anglers Get a Visit from Our Rangers.

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Weekly Fishing Report For Central South Island and North Canterbury for March 9 2023

WFR2223.55Fish Game ranger Hamish Stevens gets the goss from salmon anglers at the Rangitata River mouth Photo by Rhys Adams

Back in the good old days of sea-run salmon fishing in the 1990s, the Rangitata River mouth was an incredibly productive fishing spot.

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Central South Island and North Canterbury Weekly Fishing Report for March 2 2023

WFR2223.53 Dave Kitching first salmon since 1985 6.2kg and caught on tuesaday this week photo by Allan Gillespie

King, Chinook or Quinnat – three common names for New Zealand’s sea-run salmon species introduced from North America.

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Weekly Fishing Report for Central South Island and North Canterbury for February 23 2023

WFR2223.52 late summer high country fishing at its finest photo by Rhys Adams 2

Thanks to 20-50mm of rain region-wide on Wednesday, river flows have jumped a bit and for the most part will provide ideal fishing flows tomorrow and over the weekend.

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Weekly Fishing Report for Central South Island and North Canterbury for Feb 16 2023

WFR2223.49 Elliot Nelson caught his first Rangitata sea run salmon at age 7 photo by Rikki Nelson

Rikki Nelson had a proud dad moment while fishing the Rangitata River last Sunday with his 7-year-old son Elliot.

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Weekly Fishing Report for Central South Island and North Canterbury for 2 February 2023

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Unfortunately, due to illness, Rhys is unable to supply a full report this week, but we do have a couple of Noticeboard items for anglers in the CSI Region:

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