Trout Fishing in New Zealand - Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout, Lake Trout, Searun Trout, Taupo, Rotorua, and the South Island.

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Ben Davies with a big 8.5 lb Makarora Brown Trout.

Makarora Brownie

Tying the Yellow Lady lure for salmon and searun brown trout - video on YouTube with Allan Burgess.

Yellow Lady Salmon Lure Video on You-Tube 5min 41sec

Pending World Record Rainbow Trout

trolling lure high country lakes Jensen Crankbait

Trolling for Trout and landlocked Salmon

The best time of day for trolling is generally the period between first light and sun up. It is a good idea to start trolling the lake on the side the sun will hit first. Then when the sun hits the water cross over and fish the shaded side before it too is in full sunlight.

Canterbury head waters trophy brown trout.

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New Zealand truly is a trout anglers' paradise. We have 775 lakes that are at least 500m in length; almost 300 rivers; and an enormous number of small streams. Almost all contain trout which anglers are able to catch provided they purchase a fishing license and abide by the regulations regarding fishing season, permitted tackle and bag limits.

Trout fishing places around New Zealand. Trout fishing means many different things to different people. For many youngsters growing up in New Zealand trout fishing is in their blood. They perhaps start out worm fishing; move on to spinning gear; and later to a “proper” fly rod. You can troll for trout on a pristine South Island mountain lake, harl a fly while rowing a kayak on one of the Rotorua Lakes, spin fish from the shoreline or a dinghy, and cast for giant searun brown trout at the mouth of a Canterbury braided river. You can take trout on: brass spinners, soft plastics, natural baits, and best of all, on a fly you tied yourself the night before! FishingMag.co.nz has hundreds of pages about trout fishing in New Zealand and we are increasing the number of pages every day!

Record Size land-locked salmon from Lake Hawea

Jack Hoare, aged 15 years, caught this 7.5lb rainbow trout at the Groynes last Sunday at the Take A Kid Fishing day.

Monster Take A Kid Fishing Day Rainbow!

Opening Weekend at Lake Coleridge, Canterbury high country.

Coleridge Opening

Hope's Silvery

Searun browns come into the tidal reaches chasing the huge abundance of silveries which also arrive at this time of year. Trout caught often disgorge silveries when lifted from the water - their stomachs packed to overflowing.

Lake Coleridge baches - The end of an era.

Lake Lilian

Lake Henrietta

Canterbury Lures

Fly Tying - Royal Wulff with John Hey

terrestrial insects including a Yellow Grass Hopper

Randall Kauffman Stimulator Fly with John Hey

David van Rooyen, from Timaru, with his 24 pound rainbow trout from the Lake Tekapo Canals.

Lake Tekapo Canals Mega Monster

Waiau Rainbow

Booby Fly

One of the biggest brown trout you will ever see!

Rainbow from the Groynes Ponds

Muddler Minnows

Rainbow trout taken spinning in the Waitaki River

Brown Trout from the Ashley River.

Lake Coleridge Canterbury High Country Opening Report 2011

This enormous blue catfish was caught on an Abu Ambassadeur 6500 baitcasting reel by Eric Fincher of North Carolina , USA .

Record Catfish

Yellow Rabbit Fishing Lures

How to make Silicon Trout Flies

I mitations employing the use of RTV silicon rubber sealant are possibly the easiest of all fishing flies to create. The silicon rubber comes in 75gm tubes and is available from most leading hardware stores and service stations. I've done a bit of messing around with this stuff and have found the best method of making them is as follows.

Aquafoils, Tillin's Cobra, Tasmanian Devil, & Johnson's Kobra

Ohau Canal, Salmon By-Catch in Reverse

Old Tackle: Flopy and Plucky

The Plucky was a popular casting lure sold in New Zealand from the early 1950s until the late 60s. Few examples of this great fishing catching lure have survived down the years. Older readers as sure to remember it well. It was however a lure that was reasonably expensive in it's day.

Eel on a Rapala

An African goes Fishing at Lake Selfe

Lake Selfe Rainbows

Lake Selfe, together with near by Lake Georgina, have been stocked by the North Canterbury Fish & Game Council with rainbow trout from the Ngongataha hatchery, in Rotorua in the North Island.

Selecting a Fly Rod

New Zealand Trophy Waters Volume 5

Canterbury Lure Rod

Brown-Trout-Unusual-Markings-Rainbow-Tekapo.htm

Unusual markings on Tekapo brown trout!

The Beetle

N.Z. Killer Patterns for Trout

These "Killer Style" lures are top fish takers. Mrs Simpson and Hammil's Killer can usually be found in the fly boxes of most successful Kiwi trout anglers.

Lake Rotoroa Lodge - Luxury Fly Fishing Accommodation - Nelson Lakes National Park, South Island, New Zealand.

Waihi Boarding School boys spend some of their spare time lake fishing!

Secrets of Lake Fishing - John Hey

Rakaia River Mouth Searun Brown Trout

Canterbury High Country Rainbow Trout on spinning gear - Play YouTube 1min Video

Lake Coleridge
A chain of excellent small fishing lakes make up the Coleridge Group

South Canterbury Trout Fishing

Free fishing newsletter and FREE copy of our ebook: Spin Fishing For Trout in New Zealand - Click to download free pdf

Sprig Flies and Teasers for Trout
The effectiveness of Cobra lures can be enhanced by replacing the hooks supplied with the lure with a more attractive sprig fly. These dressed hooks are also known as teasers. Tight Lines produce a range of dressed single hooks under the name of Kiwi Teasers

Canterbury searun brown trout

Selwyn River Brownies

Luminous Trout Flies
Rainbows are particularly curious of lumo flies as are landlocked salmon in the Canterbury high country. Brown trout will also take lumo flies and lures.

Fly Fishing Big Rivers

Giving Life to Trout Fishing Nymphs

Woolly Buggar Trout Fishing Fly or Lure.

Woolly Buggar Fly

Zonker Lure

Red Shadow

A Stroll Through Brown Trout Country. Les Hill and Graeme Marshall

Fishing for searun brown trout between the Waimakariri River bridges.

Trout Between the Bridges on the Waimakariri River

The Artful Science of Trout Fishing by John Hayes and Les Hill

The first thing that grabs the reader of The Artful Science of Trout Fishing is the stunning original photography both on the cover and throughout the book.

The Art of Trolling - A Complete Guide to Freshwater Methods and Tackle - by Ken Shultz

Tillins Cobra

Tillin's have manufactured Cobras in Tasmania, Australia, since the 1950s. Tillin's make three different types of trout lure" the Cobra (5cm), the King Cobra (6cm), and the slightly larger Cobra (8cm). The later larger lure is mostly fished as a trolling lure behind a boat.

Trout Fishing Near Christchurch

Hot Smoking Fish

This is really a method better thought of as smoke/cooking, rather than the more involved cold smoking process traditionally used to preserve meats.

Fishing Map of New Zealand

This enormous rainbow hen trout was caught in Lake Tekapo Canal.

Tekapo Canal Monster Rainbow

Joe's Opening Day rainbow trout taken on the fly rod.

Joe's Opening Day Success!

Trolling & Spin Fishing for Trout

Johnson Super Specials

First trout of the new 2007 season!

Lake Brunner Trout Fishing

Lake Brunner is situated on the main highway between Canterbury and Greymouth via Arthur's Pass. It is a large lake being some 10 kms across at its widest point. Brunner is also quiet deep (over 100 metres in parts) and drops off rapidly around much of the shoreline. Set in spectacular bush-covered mountains it is a scenic delight.

Devon Minnows

Although it's popularity has declined some what in the last twenty years, the Devon minnow is nonetheless one of the oldest lure types still in regular use.

2009 Edition John Kent's South Island Trout Fishing Guide

South Island Trout Fishing Guide by John Kent

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