Fish & Game New Zealand

January Photo Competition

Entries open now

Get a photo you have taken on the 2021/2022 Fishing Licence.

 Four monthly competitions selected by judging panel:

January 2021 - $500 Kilwell Sports voucher

February 2021 - $500 Kilwell Sports voucher

March 2021 - $500 Kilwell Sports voucher

April 2021 - $500 Kilwell Sports voucher

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

The monthly winner will receive a $500 Kilwell Sports voucher and the major prize winner will receive:

  • Your photo on the front of the 2021/2022 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, F&G volunteers, sponsors and competition judges. 
  • 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
  • Winning photos become the property of Fish & Game NZ and cannot be entered in any future competition 
  • 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 on Friday 1st January 2021 and close Sunday 31st January 2021 (Any entries received after outside of these dates will be invalid, except that any entry received after Sunday 31st January 2021 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

An early season Waikato brown
Callum (7) with his Lake Ianthe Salmon (09/10/2020)
Wanaka up the top across the mouth of the makarora.
Future generation scoping for new spots.
Not a fishing one but perhaps for the Gane bird season coming up.
It was a winner on the day.
Kyle Adams about to net a large Rainbow Trout from a remote backcountry river.
Catching up for a flick with an old mate
Fishing the where hakataramea meets the waitaki on the 10/1/2021
Recent hunting and fishing trip with my father in the South Island on the main divide. It was a 10 pound brown caught in this photo, and was a trip to remember!
Coal pit dam, Naseby
Just standing in the water enjoy the view waiting for the fish to bite
Masons first fish! Age 4
Just because you can’t seem em doesn’t mean they aren’t there
Awesome day out fishing on Lake Benmore ,Toby (7) landing this beaut of a Salmon
Nice brown trout on the Mataura River
Nixon Waugh , age six. Caught fish at lake rotoiti over summer holidays. 5 lb.
First overnight fishing trip with Dad! Theo (3years) was excited to get his fishing gear out and go on his first ever fishing trip with Dad and landed this massive ( compared to him) trout in Lake Selfe, Canterbury. He is looking forward to his next ‘boys trip’ and showing his Dad up again.
Hooked for life, see it in his eyes. Owen's first rainbow, age 5. L. Tarawera, 6/1/2021.
Zoe’s (aged 7) first trout, a 5.5lb brown, caught harling on Lake Taupō, all by herself!
Archie's 1st fish with dad