Fishing News & Events

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Martin Langlands column for Reel Life May 2017

Winter river fishing  Anybody who knows me understands how much I enjoy the winter season, its a time when each and every river experience is very meaningful.

  • 31/05/2017
  • Richie Cosgrove
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Fish & Game criticise “act of wanton vandalism”

Central South Island Fish & Game Region Chief Executive Jay Graybill is condemning an attack on a Mackenzie Country salmon farm as “an act of wanton vandalism” and is urging…

  • 22/05/2017
  • Richie Cosgrove
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Concern over impact of winter crop grazing on Otago Rivers

A new report by Otago Fish & Game has highlighted the major problems facing South Otago streams from sedimentation caused by winter cropping practices.

  • Otago
  • 22/05/2017
  • Richie Cosgrove
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Health warning lifted for both Lake Rotoehu and Lake Okaro

The health warnings issued in November for Lake Rotoehu and in December for Lake Okaro have now been lifted by the Medical Officer of Health.

  • Eastern
  • 1/05/2017
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North Canterbury Weekly fishing report 28 April 2017

Hello and welcome to the final fishing report for the 2016/17 season, as I write this report from the river bank it feels warm with some gusty North West winds.

  • 28/04/2017
  • Richie Cosgrove
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Central South Island Weekly Fishing Report 28 April 2017

This is the last weekly fishing report from me for a while which times in with the end of the summer sports fishing season.

  • 28/04/2017
  • Richie Cosgrove
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North Canterbury fishing regulations review

Fish and Game North Canterbury will be conducting a review of the sports fishing regulations for the 2017-18 freshwater fishing season.

  • North Canterbury
  • 26/04/2017
  • Richie Cosgrove
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Auckland trout – a unique school holiday activity on offer

Here’s a school holiday activity with a real difference – watching and helping Fish & Game stocking Lake Pupuke on Auckland’s North Shore with catchable trout.

  • Auckland/Waikato
  • 14/04/2017
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Central South Island weekly fishing report 31 March 2017

Well it’s the last day of the salmon season today in the Central South Island Region.

  • Central South Island
  • 31/03/2017
  • Richie Cosgrove
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Graeme Marshall Fishing Report Mar 2017

South Canterbury Report for March 2017 I don’t often get nostalgic about fishing my old haunts in the Nelson backblocks.

  • 31/03/2017
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