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| Waimakariri River Salmon Fishing Contest 6 March 2010. Click for details. |
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| Tope Shark |
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| Landlocked Salmon at Lake Coleridge. |
| Environment Canterbury River Flow Levels |
| Salmon and trout anglers can check riverflows free of charge on the Environment Canterbry website. The link is near the top of the righthand column on this page. Salmon anglers say that if you can see your toes when standing knee-deep in the river then it is fishable. Also dirty water usually moves northward as it enters the sea. Often you can fish for salmon, searun trout and kahawai from the beach on the south side of the rivermouth provided the sea isn't stirring things up. Watch for birds working surface schools of silveries. Sometimes there is excellent salmon fishing from the beach on the southside even when the main river is dirty and unfishable. Salmon will of course still run the rivers even when they are in flood. Many salmon anglers incorectly believe it is no use fishing if the river isn't clear. Often the best salmon fishing takes place after a flood as the river turns from brown to green. Try a yellow or black zed spinner as these colours are easier for the salmon to see. |
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| Norm Thackwell with one of the heaviest salmon ever caught in New Zealand. It was caught in the Waimakariri River a few years back. |
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| Muppets to make Albacore Tuna lures |
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| Congratulations to Daren Gamble who
caught this nice salmon just below the Rakaia road bridge mid morning Saturday 23rd
January. More about this salmon. (Scroll down the page) |
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| Sevengill Sharks. Hooked off Canterbury's Banks Peninsula this sevengiller was set upon by other sevengillers as it was being hauled to the surface. |
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| Conger eel from the New Brighton Pier, Christchurch. It is always worth taking a look in our forum pages as these guys are great fishermen and often post some of their incredible catches like this one! Some really big fish are caught from the pier! |
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| Bluie Walker lands heaviest fish during Lake Coleridge Fishing Contest |
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| Canterbury Winter Kahawai |
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| Free FishingMag.co.nz Sea Fishing Newsletter for Surfcasters, Deepsea and Big Game Anglers. More Info. |
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| This website contains many hundreds of pages and articles about fishing in New Zealand. Our search boxes may help you find what you are looking for! |
| New Zealand Tide Tables FREE |
| Go to the Hydrolinz website and print out your own monthly tide tables for all around New Zealand in pdf format. Just scroll down the page, enter your closest port, and away you go. This is an excellent and very useful website: Hydrolinz Ports |
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