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You'll find fishing reports, fishing tips, fishing charters and plenty of fishing advice, hints and techniques on everything from snapper fishing to gamefishing on The Fishing Website. New Zealand has world-leading striped marlin and yellowtail kingfish fisheries as well as superb recreational fishing for snapper, kingfish, kahawai, terakihi, trevally, blue cod, john dory, gurnard, hapuku & bass, trout & salmon. If you have a fishing question or want to check out what fellow fisho's think on a particular fishing topic, visit our fishing forums.
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This week's Fishing Podcast
It's all about slow pitch lures on this week's NZ Fishing Podcast! Our good mate Grant Bittle from Catch Fishing talks through all the variations, how they work, and what's made them so popular in New Zealand over the past decade. Markus Church from Shimano joins us to talk about the new Shimano Docan Sliders and Ray Burge from the Coastguard gives us part two of our Summer Safety Series - lifejackets.
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18 January 2019
Made from food and dishwasher safe ABS plastic, the same material hard hats are made from, the set of Squidezy tools comes in three different sizes for different-sized squid.
17 January 2019
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16 January 2019
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15 January 2019
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Tony Orton's magic knot
January 2019
Many years ago, while fishing in Costa Rica for mahimahi and billfish, a deckhand showed me a knot. It was being used to connect 37-45kg (80- 100lb) wind-on leaders to 15kg mainline, and was strong, simple, and very easy to tie. In fact, it one of the simplest knots I have been shown.
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Many keen fishermen will be familiar with the name Hayabusa, although gear carrying this brand name has been hard to com...
January 2019
New materials and techniques continue to see reels evolving, but whatever style of fishing you enjoy, experienced angler...
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They might be relatively small and most often found frozen in fishing shop freezers, but Adam Clancey says catching thes...
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