Eastern Region Fishing Reports

Latest news: April 2008

Latest reports: April 2008

Rotorua Report by Braeside Resort Rotorua

27 April 2008

Early on Saturday morning three hundred and eighty keen anglers converged on Lake Rotorua to try their luck in the Rotorua Classic Tagged Trout Tournament....

Best fishing season in years

If you've got plans to go trout fishing - now is the time, says Rotorua angler Mark Kahu.

Mr Kahu has been fishing the waterways around Rotorua for more than 20 years and he says it's the best season he has experienced....

Some info for those heading towards the Rotorua Lakes.

A reasonable shoal of smelt has suddenly appeared over the sand patch immediately off the end of our jetty, showing all the hallmarks of spawning behaviour.

Fishing has been generally good for the past couple of weeks with the average catch around 2kg and in better condition than last year - meaning a second year of improved growth. Perhaps fishing this holiday is going to be better than usual...

Peter Storey, The New Zealand Trout Fisher
www.nztroutfisher.co.nz

Long, warm spring good for growth
6 October 6, 2007

The mud-fishers are happy. Well, someone had to be after the atrocious weather of mid-week.

At Rotorua and Taupo they missed the worst of the rain and wind, getting just enough of a fresh to spark good runs of fish in the rivers...

One Double X Regional News story
4 October 2007

A strong angler season in the Bay of Plenty is being predicted by Fish and Game New Zealand. It opened this week with the largest caught a 5.6 kilogram brown trout.

Officer Rob Pitkethley says early indications show both the size of trout and angler catch rates are looking good. He says it's the best they've had in four years. Mr Pitkethley says even at the more difficult to fish Rotoiti, results have been positive.