Fly Fishing for Big Browns in South Island New Zealand

Using soft baits on a river can be very productive for anglers, follow these tips from the team at Southland Fish & Game for the best results.

A popular video from the guys at Trout Hunting NZ

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Thousands of anglers across the country headed out before dawn this morning to start the 2021/22 sports fishing season. The weather played its part, with fine weather for opening day across most of the country. With Covid-19 restrictions, fishing has become a great way of dealing with the stress the restrictions cause and provides an excellent opportunity enjoy the outdoors and change things up a little. The opening day of the new fishing season this year is in the middle of Mental Health Awareness Week. This is appropriate given that fishing is one activity that has been proven to improve your wellbeing. Studies overseas have shown that going fishing reduces stress, and with the school holidays starting this weekend, fishing also is a great school holiday family activity.

Tom Rosenbauer discusses the uses of various indicators and how they are used to successfully nymph fish different parts of the water column for trout.

Here's an excellent 30 minute comprehensive guide from Orvis, with some great information relevant to rivers anywhere, on where to look for trout.

Part 2 of my Solo overnight Solo Camping and Spearfishing adventure along remote NZ Coastline. Crayfish for Breakfast before hunting NZ's Famous Snapper and managing to find some more Crayfish

head off on an epic solo road trip to explore some new coastline of New Zealand for Spearfishing. I am greeted with incredible conditions with flat calm seas and clear, blue water. I find a very fishy piece of coast and manage to spear some huge Snapper, one close to the magic 20-pound mark and spear a nice big Yellowtail Kingfish along with some tasty other species such as John Dory!

SIMRAD SESSIONS presents Flyn Jack smashing some huge kingfish in an all out action adventure at D'Urville Island. Check out this video for a bit of inspiration!

Check out this awesome episode from the Lateral Line boys. Epic footage.

Milan for years has talked about investing some time into trying to catch snapper in a harbour. That time to be invested by waiting until there is a perfect weather forecast and going as far up the back of a harbour at dead low tide as you could possible go and just see what we can find. The perfect out come would be to find something amazingly “fishy” and then coming up with a plan to fish that area. The boys executed the plan well but bump into a school of snapper and Trevally randomly and end up spending the afternoon trying to catch them on a fly. The boys have only ever been lucky enough to see fish schooling like this in the shallows a handful of times over the years.

One of the most rewarding fishing styles for me is catching big snapper in front of crashing swell and white water. What’s even more exciting is discovering a new way of fishing, that is only tried by a very small percentage of anglers, that finds fish that have grown to great size in the shelter of water that has often gone pretty much undisturbed by humans. It’s exciting, challenging and keeps me awake at night when I think about the amazing battles that have taken place in areas that normally, I might have previously driven past. What never fails to amaze me, is the size of the fish living in these habitats (even in the Winter months) and in the depth of water which at times is barely knee deep.