Fish & Game New Zealand

January Photo Competition

Entries open now

Get a photo you have taken on the 2020/2021 Fishing Licence.

 Four monthly competitions selected by judging panel:

January 2020 - $500 Kilwell voucher

February 2020 - $500 Kilwell voucher

March 2020 - $500 Kilwell voucher

April 2020 - $500 Kilwell voucher

Grand prize will be decided by public vote on the Fish & Game Facebook page

The winner will receive:

  • Your photo on the front of the 2020/2021 Fish & Game fishing licence
  • $2,000 voucher from Kilwell Sports
  • Your name engraved on an annual trophy retained by Fish & Game

How to enter

Take a photo on your camera or phone related to sports fishing in New Zealand and upload it below to enter. (Please read the terms and conditions below to ensure you are aware of all the competition requirements) Entries that do not meet the T&C's will not be accepted.

The rules in brief (please read these to avoid your entry being invalid): 

  • The form below is the only accepted method of entry
  • The competition is open to NZ residents only (except F&G staff, volunteers, sponsors and competition judges and their immediate families)
  • Entries can only be made by the actual photographer
  • Photos must be taken in New Zealand
  • One entry per person per month, no photo can be submitted more than once throughout the entire competition
  • Entries will be accepted from the first day to the last day of the calendar month
  • No entry can be submitted to any other competition past or present and for winners, in the future
  • Files must be .jpg or .jpeg between 1Mb and 5Mb

Read the full terms and conditions here

 All entries are subject to terms and conditions and entry is deemed acceptance, you can read them here

Please allow up to 48 hours before your photo is displayed after entering it.

If your photo does not a appear below, it will be because it did not meet the terms and conditions of entry. 

Entries open for the first monthly competition: Wednesday 1st January 2020 and close Friday 31st January 2020 (Any entries outside of these dates will be invalid, except that any entry received after the month end will will be accepted as an entry for the February competition)

 

Step 1: Select your photo.

Step 2: Tell us about it.

Step 3: Accept T&C's and upload your entry

View entries below

A 3-pound hen brightens up this rainy day!
First Rainbow trout for 2020!
Caleb (11y/o). Fly fishing, 4lb brown in the sandy river beach.
Fishing the upper Teviot Stream with a dry fly when my daughter Kate took this photo.
Success on the Waikaka stream.
North island catch and release
Jordy Taylor at three years old with his first trout on the Rangitikei River
The wet coat West Coast.
5 year old Mackenzie with her first fish.
Fishing was slow around the edge of lake benmore campsite falstone.
Motueka River, great bit of water
Uncle and Nephew - Butchers Dam, Alexandra, NZ
Misty morning connection
The view at Journey’s end.
I feel very lucky to be able to fish waters like this one.
North Island High country still water Rainbow Jack.
While spinning for fussy browns in Taranaki’s Waingongoro, this beautifully coloured jack smashed my silver Mepps Aglia Long spinner first cast in the head of an upstream pool.
Small stream summer brown
Steve Boyd, Tiger Trout, Lake Rotoma
Trout fishing activity on the Tongariro River.
A beautiful hen for a choice dude.
Searching the pools deep in the headwaters of the Waioeka tributaries.
Nice fresh run Chinook Salmon from North Canterbury river
7Lb sea run brown trout of Lake Forsyth camterbury. Very underrated fishery. This was 1 of 3 for the day all 5Lb+
Giving the youngin the bug
Elliot stoaked with a Lake Opuha rainbow.
Heavier then the record bow shot koi carp in NZ unfortunately was not a current member of the Nz bow hunters society so was unable to claim the record. Weight of 14.98kg
Spring creek gold mining.
Teacher only day.
Fishing smiths way cromwell
Fiordland Magic on the Glaisnock and never mind the sand flies.
Monster mouth of a brown trout
Looking for Salmon. Waimakariri River January 2020
Steve out for the day with his dinghy on Lake Hawea, smile says it all.
Top brown from a wee Southland stream. Photo taken on my GroPro 5.
My PB brown from a very tricky river.
I feel very lucky to fish in magic places like this one.
My man doing what he loves with a view worth savouring, Wanaka
Arrow River, November
My brother and best fishing buddy with a beauty from a rugged West Coast river
Taken from our happy place
Paradise- Whirinaki River-2015 C&R
3lb Rainbow caught on a Centerpin reel, Nelson/Marlborough region.
Fish on! Pueto Stream.
Fishing the mouth of the Waiteti Stream
Bang the indicators went under fish number 3 beautiful rainbow trout released to catch another day
Nixon’s first trout jigging lake rotoiti.
A beauty of a brown in a beauty of a stream. Caught at the mangatutu stream on the 4th of January 2019
Tiger trout taken on lake rotoiti.
The smile says it all.
Evening fish down the lower waiau
6.5 pound of pure rainbow. I managed to land this fish by my self in a beautiful pool in my favourite river. Super stoked.
Pohangina rainbow fooled
A beautiful evening targeting the elusive sea run salmon
Kaikoura salmon caught in spring
Early morning sunshine breaking through the mist in the Canterbury high country
Looking up Waimak River from the mouth
Nice fiordland rainbow
A great January day up at lake Clearwater produced this beautiful 5lb brownie jack trout.
Fishing a summers night at Lake Wakapitu.
Lower Lake Mavora as the sunsets.
Hot day on the Mataura river in gore
Spin fishing in the maniototo Nasby Otago
A perfect day on the upper Grey river
Living the dream
While it great to see the bigger fish I always think it is important to appreciate the little fish that are going to be the future of our sport.
My life time fishing buddy Gary has just introduced his daughter to the thrill of fly fishing-with success!! Opihi River
Spot of fishing when the ducks weren't flying
Taken deep in the Pohokura forest, cascades like these are everywhere.
Wellington Back Country Brown
My grandson Hayden with his first fish on a fly, at H.B Fish and Game.
Walking through the river looking for trouts
One of the Great Lakes!
My son and I Josh were targeting Perch on Lake Waihola when Josh hooked this ripper brown trout on a soft bait being his largest fish to date.
Nice early morning start in Taranaki trout heaven.
Fishing the Lake Wanaka flatwater at last light
Chris Corbert with a 51/4lb brown from the Whakapapa
Nice now caught in the canals 19lb
Early morning salmon fishing on the Hurunui River
View from the hut
Myself and my friend Freidrich Fourie (and our families) had booked the weekend of 27 July 2019 so that we can fly fish the Ohinemuri river in Garangahake Gorge. During week it began raining like mad and the river was so high we could find only one spot to wade. A few steps in any direction and we would be up to our chests in water. We were in that one spot for hours with no success. As the sun was going down I got this shot of Freidrich. A few minutes later we both caught a nice rainbow right at our feet.
My dad and I with a double whammy
Restricted access through forestry protecting a fishery in the Wharerata's
A surprisingly well behaved horse from an almost fishless hike up a river bed
Set! Alex Hastie catches his last fish for the decade. Hawkes Bay backcountry, 30/12/2019
Zac was 7 yrs old when he went down to the wairau river with his nana and 5yr old brother, came running back up to where we were camping 20mins later with this brown trout, 3lb. Caught and gutted by himself. He was super proud as none of the other men caught a fish that day.