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Welcome to NZ Fishing World’s How-to guide updated for 2019. You'll find a summary of pretty much every technique, for every fish. It’s literally all you need to know to catch New Zealand’s favourite fish.

There are few fish that taste as good and yield so much flaky fillet as the Hapuka (That's groper anywhere outside New Zealand) They are a challenge to target but can provide great reward and certainly a serious workout if you don’t have the inclination to use electric reels. One of the best things about Hapuka fishing, is that you can guarantee it is worth a go anywhere in New Zealand, at any time of year.

Targeting Hapuka, bluenose, bass, gemfish and other deep water species traditionally means plunging a big dropper rig loaded, with various lumps of squid or bait fillets, into anywhere from 100 to 500 metres attempting to hit sign identified on the trusty sounder. More often than not these days, with an electric reel (see powered winch) of some sort. It’s a reasonably effective way to fish, with good results common to those that know what they are doing.

Faced with continual decline in the sea run salmon fishery, the two Canterbury Fish & Game regions have voted this week to align most of their salmon regulations.

Yamaha School of Fish presents snapper fishing in the Marlborough sounds with Outdoors and Marine Blenheim. Check out some banger snapper action right here...

For a lot of fishos, land-based fishing in Wellington is thought of as being just cold weather, high winds and nothing but red cod, kahawai and sharks.

Freshwater anglers are eagerly anticipating the start of the new trout and salmon fishing season with Fish & Game's 2019-20 licences now on sale. Photo for inspiration, is Alex Burrowes with a brown trout from Lake Henrietta in Canterbury

Sailfish are an amazing species, beautiful, fast, and a prized target on many anglers bucket lists. They take to the air, strip line and are easy to handle once you get them boat side.

According to Al Brown, we don't seem to bake fish much in New Zealand. Baking is not only easy but can also be a very healthy and tasty way of preparing a lot of the species we normally throw in the pan. Check out the simple video recipe from Freshcatch with Al Brown

We check out the trout fishing action and have a chat with the local Tongariro Lodge guide at one of NZ's iconic fishing locations on the banks of the mighty Tongariro.

Check out our mate Alex Waller's nice video log here, a great little feature showing the setup he uses to hook into some good fish.

You’ll hook more fish, and enjoy a few other benefits to boot. How so you say? Believe it or not, barbless hooks are a better option in many ways for almost every type of rod and reel sport fishing.

Hapuka is an amazing table fish, but it is a big flakey lump of flesh that can easily be over cooked and become rather tough if you don't get it right.

The Catch Fishing pro team, including master kayak angler Stephen Tapp show us how it's done chasing big fish from kayaks

One of the most underrated, and under-utilised lures available to fishermen really does come in a small package. Although the old saying ‘big bait – big fish’ will often hold true, it was a long time ago, from well-respected fishing legend Rick Pollock, that I heard the opposing argument ‘elephants eat peanuts’.