Regional Fishing Reports

Otago

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Otago Weekly Fishing Report - 8 February 2024

Trout feasting on rising tide The lower Clutha River/Mata-au was fishing well earlier this week for John Lyall and Kelly Maynard, from Hokitika, with Otago Fish & Game chief executive Ian…

  • Otago
  • 8/02/2024
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Otago Weekly Fishing Report - 1 February 2024

Pictured above: Stefan Thorburn with a Mahinerangi brown, which was heading home for the smoker. Credit: Bruce Quirey.

  • Otago
  • 1/02/2024
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Otago Weekly Fishing Report - 25 January 2024

Pictured above: Lily Manson with a 4. 5lb rainbow that rose for a small CDC emerger around the edge of Upper Manorburn Reservoir. Credit: Tim Johnson.

  • Otago
  • 25/01/2024
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Otago Weekly Fishing Report - 18 January 2024

Above: Zoe Flockton and Jack Hadland with a brown trout caught fly fishing using a nymph drifted over a drop-off on the edge of the upper Clutha River in the…

  • Otago
  • 18/01/2024
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Otago Weekly Fishing Report - 11 January 2024

Pictured above: Lucy Mitchell, of Dunedin, with a rainbow trout caught trolling on Lake Dunstan last weekend. Credit: Bruce Quirey.

  • Otago
  • 11/01/2024
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Otago Weekly Fishing Report - 14 December 2023

Pictured right: Angus Davis with a 2-year-old hatchery rainbow trout caught at Tomahawk Lagoon on a pink soft bait lure. Credit: Ross Taylor.

  • Otago
  • 14/12/2023
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Otago Weekly Fishing Report - 7 December 2023

Above: Riley Anderson (13) with a stunning-conditioned brown trout caught in the Wilkin River, one of Otago’s nine Designated Water fisheries. Photo: Riley Anderson.

  • Otago
  • 7/12/2023
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Otago Weekly Fishing Report - 30 November 2023

Pictured above: Angus Clareburt from Hunting & Fishing Queenstown with a thumping rainbow trout out of one of Lake Wakatipu’s small tributaries Photo: Angus Clareburt.

  • Otago
  • 30/11/2023
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Otago Weekly Fishing Report - 23 November 2023

Angus Borrell showing off the hard-earned results of a pack rafting trip deep into the backcountry. Credit: Henry Schikker.

  • Otago
  • 23/11/2023
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Otago Weekly Fishing Report 16 November 2023

Land-locked salmon on the runThe annual spring salmon run in Lake Hāwea has begun.

  • Otago
  • 16/11/2023
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