Fishing News & Events

Whiskey Creek Chinook Salmon Enhancement Program
Salmon smolt release day Sunday 2nd July 2017 at 10 amFish and Game are inviting, Lake Coleridge Village residents, Local Landowners, Trust Power, Anglers, and members of the public to celebrate the…
- North Canterbury
- 7/06/2017
- Richie Cosgrove

Martin Langlands column for Reel Life May 2017
Winter river fishing Anybody who knows me understands how much I enjoy the winter season, its a time when each and every river experience is very meaningful.
- 31/05/2017
- Richie Cosgrove

Fish & Game criticise “act of wanton vandalism”
Central South Island Fish & Game Region Chief Executive Jay Graybill is condemning an attack on a Mackenzie Country salmon farm as “an act of wanton vandalism” and is urging…
- 22/05/2017
- Richie Cosgrove

Concern over impact of winter crop grazing on Otago Rivers
A new report by Otago Fish & Game has highlighted the major problems facing South Otago streams from sedimentation caused by winter cropping practices.
- Otago
- 22/05/2017
- Richie Cosgrove

Health warning lifted for both Lake Rotoehu and Lake Okaro
The health warnings issued in November for Lake Rotoehu and in December for Lake Okaro have now been lifted by the Medical Officer of Health.
- Eastern
- 1/05/2017

North Canterbury Weekly fishing report 28 April 2017
Hello and welcome to the final fishing report for the 2016/17 season, as I write this report from the river bank it feels warm with some gusty North West winds.
- 28/04/2017
- Richie Cosgrove

Central South Island Weekly Fishing Report 28 April 2017
This is the last weekly fishing report from me for a while which times in with the end of the summer sports fishing season.
- 28/04/2017
- Richie Cosgrove

North Canterbury fishing regulations review
Fish and Game North Canterbury will be conducting a review of the sports fishing regulations for the 2017-18 freshwater fishing season.
- North Canterbury
- 26/04/2017
- Richie Cosgrove

Auckland trout – a unique school holiday activity on offer
Here’s a school holiday activity with a real difference – watching and helping Fish & Game stocking Lake Pupuke on Auckland’s North Shore with catchable trout.
- Auckland/Waikato
- 14/04/2017

Central South Island weekly fishing report 31 March 2017
Well it’s the last day of the salmon season today in the Central South Island Region.
- Central South Island
- 31/03/2017
- Richie Cosgrove