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Hawkes Bay

Drift Dive Crew in the Ngaruroro
Reel Life April 2025 - Hawke's bay

The incredible run of dry weather finally come to an end on some rivers that rise in the west, when they got a brief but heavy dump of rain on…

  • Hawkes Bay
  • 17/04/2025
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Reel Life March 2025 - Hawke's Bay

The incredible run of great weather has finally come to an end in Northern parts of the Bay, in Central Hawke’s Bay although they had some rain, it wasn’t enough…

  • Hawkes Bay
  • 21/03/2025
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A 3.3 kg HB rainbow . photo John Lumsden
Reel Life February 2025 - Hawke's Bay

The incredible run of great river fishing weather has continued!

  • Hawkes Bay
  • 20/02/2025
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Reel Life January 2025 - Hawke's Bay

Finally some rain arrived.

  • Hawkes Bay
  • 20/01/2025
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Reel Life December 2024 - Hawke's Bay

As we said in our November Reel Life - we can’t remember when we last had a more settled start to a trout fishing season.

  • Hawkes Bay
  • 18/12/2024
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Another lovely little kuri lakes Brownie.
Reel Life November 2024 - Hawke's Bay

I can’t remember when we last had a more settled start to a  trout fishing season, the 2024 Hawkes Bay Trout fishing season started on 1 October, with one of…

  • Hawkes Bay
  • 20/11/2024
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Reel Life October 2024 - Hawkes Bay

The 2024 Hawkes Bay Trout fishing season started on 1 October, with one of the nicer opening days we have had for many years, with bright calm weather conditions and…

  • Hawkes Bay
  • 21/10/2024
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Reel Life September 2024 - Hawke's Bay

Countdown to 1 October.

  • Hawkes Bay
  • 24/09/2024
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Reel Life April 2024 - Hawkes Bay

It’s been a very dry warm Autumn with many rivers experiencing low flows but we are still seeing lots of good size fish being caught around the region.

  • Hawkes Bay
  • 26/04/2024
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Reel Life March 2024 - Hawkes Bay

March is seeing some fantastic Trout being caught, particularly in the Tukituki and as the heat of summer subsides, the stress on the fish will lessen and their condition will…

  • Hawkes Bay
  • 21/03/2024
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