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| Fish
& Game Weekly Report, Friday 3 February 2012 |
| Graeme
Hughes, Fish & Game
If you are an angler and you took a weeks leave
to go fishing in the region you would agree that the week’s
weather has been a shocker... Read
more... |
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Fishing Reports from Fisherman's Loft |
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Timaru Herald report, 3 March 2009 |
| Best
spots for trout fishing
Low river flows and large mats of algae combine
to make many coastal rivers unattractive to trout anglers at present.
Lakes, canals, and high-country headwaters those are the places
to fish for trout while down-country waters are contaminated with
algae, didymo, and phormidium...The
Rangitata
and Waitaki
Rivers are not yet badly affected, and salmon fishing, particularly
at the river mouth, should remain free from contamination....
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more... |
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Timaru Herald report, 21 Feb 2009 |
Head
for high water, lakes and canals for best trout fishing
Peter Shutt, Timaru Herald
Low river flows and large mats of algae combine
to make many coastal rivers unattractive to trout anglers at present.
Lakes, canals, and high-country headwaters those are the places
to fish for trout while down-country waters are contaminated with
algae, didymo, and phormidium.
Read
more... |
| Waitaki
River: Coming down, flushed with success |
| Otago
Daily Times, 22 Jan 2009
The Waitaki
River started falling at noon yesterday, after 48 hours of a
950cumecs flushing flow that was released by Meridian Energy. The
release, originally planned for 24 hours, swelled the river from
6am on Monday, reaching its maximum at midday Monday.
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more... |
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Waitaki River: : Attempt to flush didymo out to sea |
| The Press,
20 Jan 2009
The power of nature thundered down the Waitaki
River valley yesterday as vast amounts of excess hydro-lake
water were released in a bid to flush the river clean.
The flushing flow...increased the Waitaki's
flow to more than three time its average. By noon, more than 960
cubic metres of water a second (cumecs) was being spilt from Lake
Benmore.
Read
more... |
Hooked on fishing at Lake Benmore |
Otago
Daily Times, 17 Jan 2009
Lake
Benmore is the second most-fished lake in New Zealand behind
Lake
Taupo. David Bruce looks at its phenomenal growth in popularity
with anglers.
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more.... |
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Timaru Herald reports by Pete Shutt |
| Lake
Benmore the official top spot
27 December 2008
If you plan to fish in the central South Island
these holidays, be aware that you are in the premiere fisheries
in New Zealand....a national angler survey has identified that the
central South Island had 250,820 angler days during the 2007/08
season...
"...Lake
Benmore [is] the most fished lake in any of the Fish and Game
regions and second only to Lake
Taupo in angler numbers, but in the South Island, of the lakes
tested, it's easily the most productive fishery."...
Two
scenarios two different results perhaps?
27 December 2008
The flushing flow through the Opuha
and Opihi
River systems last weekend is said to have dislodged the aggressive
invasion of didymo in the lower Opuha River, and carried the offensive
mats to sea. There endeth the first scenario.
At the Tekapo
River, didymo has caused a number of anglers to vacate the fishery
in favour of lake fishing, or moving to less effected water.
With this week's newspaper report that Meridian
Energy is likely to release a flushing flow down the Tekapo
River, comes the realisation that didymo mats could end up in
the Haldon Arm of Lake
Benmore.... |
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Timaru Herald: 31 October 2008 |
| by
Peter Shutt
Keep didymo in mind when casting in the high country
Tomorrow is the start of the high country fishing
season, and anglers are expected to flock to the prime fishing spots.
You might be very impressed with the flows and lake levels across
the hinterland...Read
more
Opuha Water wins resource management award
Opuha
Water Limited won the Supreme Award at the Canterbury Resource Management
Award ceremony in Christchurch last Wednesday...Read
more
Opihi River provides good fish at Master's Games
The South Island Master's Games in October were
held at Timaru and included fishing. For 10 competitors the Opihi
River provided some good fish...Read
more
Big turnout at Take a Kid Fishing Day
Some 7500 children and parents attended the recent
annual Take a Kid Fishing Day at The Groynes, at Christchurch, and
several South Canterbury children were amongst the crowd casting
lines to the several thousand fish in the four large ponds...Read
more |
| Timaru
Herald: 22 August 2008 |
| Don't
forget Lake Coleridge
by Peter Shutt
It's been a winter of great fishing success at
inland lakes and specifically so at lakes Benmore
and Coleridge.
We tend to forget about Lake
Coleridge, believing it is a modified water that appears featureless
in summer and attracts mountain storms in winter, but on a good
day, or more particularly on a good night, the results can be spectacular.
On a recent trip by members of the Canterbury
Anglers Club, the rainbow trout pictured fell to a lumo fly cast
by Paul Stikkelman. He was fishing in an interclub competition and
although it was the largest fish caught, the catch was just an hour
or so outside the official competition period.
But that's fishing. Paul released the fish to
fight another day.
Only a handful of South Canterbury anglers test
this water, but one should remember there are several smaller lakes
and tarns near Coleridge that fish well throughout summer, and the
scenery is rather attractive. Overnight camping means anglers can
fish the evening rise and early morning when trout are generally
seen cruising the edgewater in lakes and tarns. |
