Fishing & Water Temperature

From a fishing perspective, New Zealand’s anglers are fortunate compared with those in many other parts of the world. The reason for this is largely geographical, and in this regard, New Zealand is a ‘Goldilocks’ country – many aspects are just about right.

Let us start with our latitude – our distance south of the equator. This controls many aspects of our climate, not the least being temperatures of the land and in the sea. Our climate is classed as ‘temperate’ and, up to a point anyway, we have the benefit of avoiding the very worst excesses of tropical cyclones (which tend to weaken somewhat as they drop down from the tropics), and Antarctic storms (which often lose a lot of their impact as they move north).