Lower North Lowdown Weekly Fishing Report - 26 December 2024

Holiday Angling Heaven!   

Welcome to the festive season. Hopefully this finds you on a well deserved break, and with time to enjoy the amazing fishing on offer.  

If you're working through, make sure you take a break over the statutory holidays and weekends to get out on the water and decompress. 

Pictured above - George McCall with a good old Wairarapa brown trout caught on softbait (Photo: Lily Kinahan).

For those lucky enough to be on leave, make sure you get your fill while you're away from the desk or tools and have the time on your hands.

Staying at home, or travelling around over the break, remember that pretty much every stream and river you cross in North and South islands is an angling adventure waiting to be discovered. 

No matter whether you plan on exploring new water or fishing your local secret spot, we hope you get amongst the great action we've had so far this season.           

We've got abridged reports over the Christmas and New Year period, but all the information including links to live weather and river flows is provided below to help you plan you next angling adventure.

We'll be back to normal reports in mid January. Hope to see you on the water.   

Get In to The Action! 

Jump online and get your licence the easy way - it only takes a minute.

Click the image above to get started. 

 

Here's the outlook for the weekend:

 

Hutt Valley

 

Hunting & Fishing Photo Comp - Win $300 To Spend in Store

Daniel Lash has been having a great time fishing Taranaki's Waingongoro River this season. 

Send in your favourite fishing photos from this season and you could be in to win a $300 voucher to spend in store at Wairarapa Hunting & Fishing.

We won't blow your secret spot, just include the name of the angler(s), photographer's details, and general location in the Wellington-Taranaki Fish & Game region.

  

Click here to submit your entry.             

You can send us as many fishing photos as you like. By submitting images to enter the competition you acknowledge that Wellington Fish & Game can publish and use the photos for publicity material.

Entries must be in by 5pm Tuesday, April 2, 2025. The winner will be announced in the Lower North Lowdown report on Thursday, April 4, 2025.

Grab Our Handy 'How-To' Guides

The team at Wellington-Taranaki Fish & Game have produced some handy ‘how-to’ guides to help you get the most out of your investment in a licence and catch more fish.

These cover tips and techniques that will help you get started, take your fishing to the next level, or trouble-shoot some common issues anglers encounter on the water.

Select from the links below to download the right resource for you:

- SPIN FISHING BASICS

- ADVANCED SPIN FISHING

- READING THE WATER

For any anglers visiting or new to the Wellington Fish & Game region, and have had the Hutt River on their bucket list, we've designed a dedicated brochure to help you be successful on this exceptional but challenging piece of water.

Although the fishery holds high numbers of trout, the Hutt isn't an easy river to fish. However, the rewards are exceptional with large hard fighting browns the prize.

- HOW TO FISH THE HUTT RIVER     

  

Lower North Island - An Angler's Dream 

Click the YouTube screenshot below to watch a snapshot of some of the stunning angling on offer in the lower North Island.