Fishing News & Events
Fish & Game tips good times ahead for Lake Arapuni anglers
Lake Arapuni, one of the Waikato’s most popular trout fishing spots, is in the “best shape” ever for the summer with rainbows averaging more than half a metre long, according…
- 16/11/2015
Fish & Game releases trout by boat at Lake Tarawera
Fish & Game officers have used a boat to release fish “far and wide” on Lake Tarawera this week.
- 13/11/2015
'First class’ Rotorua streams all set to open
Anglers are gearing up for the December opening of some first class stream fishing around the shores of Lake Rotorua.
- 10/11/2015
Fish & Game applauds Cawthron Institute initiative to clean up New Zealand's waterways
Fish & Game is applauding the Cawthron Institute’s launch of a new charitable foundation to improve New Zealand’s water quality but questions why such vital work is being left to…
- 5/11/2015
Holiday weekend opportunity for anglers to taste success
Labour weekend is providing holiday makers with their first opportunity to sample the wider range of new freshwater fishing licences now being offered by Fish & Game.
- 21/10/2015
Rotoiti and Okataina ‘best performers’ of Rotorua lakes on trout opening
Lake Rotoiti fished “way ahead” of normal on Opening Day, going by Fish & Game’s surveys of hundreds of anglers who turned out for the start of the new fishing…
- 20/10/2015
'Foolish' Rotorua man failed to learn poaching lesson
A Rotorua man failed to learn his lesson after being booked for trout poaching offences, and “foolishly” went on to commit more just over a month later.
- 13/10/2015
Hauraki angler ‘closest’ to grand fishing prize of $25k
A Hauraki Plains angler has won a $200 prize in Fish & Game’s Fish for Gold promotion, getting closest to the grand prize of $25,000.
- 12/10/2015
'Banding Together' hunting jacket winners named
Hunting & Fishing New Zealand has named this year’s five lucky game bird hunters who’ve each won one of their $299.
- 12/10/2015
Number of junior anglers pleasing - Fish & Game
A feature of the opening of the new trout fishing season has been the number of young anglers on the waterways - this year October 1 fell within the first…
- 7/10/2015