River Tips, Tricks and Hints
With the ban on international travel, one would assume that angling foot traffic would ease on New Zealand’s rivers.
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Bow Fishing for Stingray
It was a 5am start on a Friday morning as my friend Jeanna and her dad rolled into the driveway with the boat and fishing bows in tow.
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Close to Home
During the years my mates and I fished the Tongariro River, our go-to place to crash was the Tongariro Fishing Lodge located in Taupahi Road, Turangi.
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My Home: My Fishing Lodge
Every now and then, my home becomes a ‘fishing lodge’. So, how does a suburban bungalow with three bedrooms, one garage and a lemon tree become a fishing lodge?
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Southland Fishing Adventures / Backcountry Fishing
Spending time flyfishing in the backcountry of NZ with friends is hard to beat ...
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Chasing Winter Monsters
When the temperature gauge on the display proclaims an ambient temperature of minus 8 and rime ice glistens on every surface, it’s probably time to question one’s sanity.
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“Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent” – Really?
Lockdowns, skill shortages, intergenerational inequalities. There’s no doubt about it … discontent stalks the land. Our response?
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“If Winter Comes … can spring be far behind?”
It’s obvious that Percy Bysshe Shelley, concluding his poem about the ‘wild west wind’, wasn’t one to long for the opportunities that winter fishing affords ...
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The Trout Revolution
It must be hard for more recent generations to understand, but for much of the previous century when trout were caught, it was deeply engrained in our psyche to kill and eat them.
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The Mighty Mot … a tale of a 20-year dream and the friends and family that made it so
Growing up in Colorado, I was fortunate to have ample opportunity to hone my fishing skills on trout; even though we were able to go to New Zealand ...
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Wild and Free – Respecting our salmon and the rivers that support them …
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” So wrote Heraclitus some 2500 years ago.
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Born to be Wild – the natural approach to salmon management
The sea-run Chinook salmon fishery in New Zealand is little more than a hundred years old.
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