If any angler foul-hooks three fish in any one day it will be considered deliberate and they must stop fishing after the third fish.

(Foul-hook means to hook a sports fish other than from within the mouth).

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Artificial fly, spinner, bait.

Unsportsman like devices or methods are not permitted.

Trout: No limit
Salmon: N/A

Artificial fly, spinner.

This river is affected by didymo. See Didymo Biosecurity Alert for details.

Artificial fly, spinner

This river is affected by didymo. See Didymo Biosecurity Alert for details.

Flyfishing only.
This river is affected by didymo. See Didymo Biosecurity Alert for details.

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Trout: 4 (1 brown trout max)
Salmon: 2

Artificial fly and spinner.

Down-riggers, paravanes, metal-cored or wire lines and weights to assist sinking of trolled lures are prohibited in this lake.

Trout or salmon: 2
Brown trout: 0

Ashburton River South Branch including tributaries downstream of Taylors Stream junction;
Ashburton River downstream of North and South Branch junction

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm.

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Artificial fly, spinner, bait

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Artificial fly, spinner, bait

Trout: No limit
Salmon:

Minimum 300 mm

Fly, spin and bait for child licence holders.

Fly spin for other than child licence holders.

Artificial fly, spinner, bait

A coarse fishing water.

Trout: 1 Oct-31 Mar

Trout: 1 Oct-28 Feb

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Artificial fly, spinner.
Fishing from an unmoored boat is prohibited in the lake.

Trout: No limit

Trout: None

Salmon:
Minimum 250mm
Maximum 450 mm

Trout: 2
Salmon: N/A

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

1 June-31 Aug

Trout or salmon: 2 total

Artificial fly, spinner only

Artificial fly, spinner, bait

(Designated coarse fishing water)

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Artificial fly, spinner, bait
Fishing from boats is prohibited.

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Trout: 1 Oct-31 Mar
Salmon: Closed

Trout: 2
Salmon: Closed

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Fly fishing only.
Fishing from an unmoored boat is prohibited in the lakes.

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

McKenzie hydro canals:

• Tekapo–Pukaki canal
• Pukaki–Ohau hydro canal
• Ohau Canal from State Highway 8 to Ohau C power station

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Total sports fish: 4, of which no more than 2 to be trout.

No more than 2 salmon greater than 500mm to be taken.

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Artificial fly, spinner, bait
Fishing from an unmoored boat is prohibited.

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Ohau Canal from State Highway 8 to Ohau C Station

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Artificial fly, spinner, bait

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Artificial fly, spinner, bait

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Artificial fly, spinner, bait

This river is affected by didymo. See Didymo Biosecurity Alert for details.

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Trout: 2

Salmon: 2

Trout: 4

Salmon: 2

1 Jun-31 Aug
(winter season)

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Trout: 2
Salmon: 2

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Trout: No limit
Salmon: N/A

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm.

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mmr.

Pukaki-Ohau A canal

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

(see below)

(see below)

Seaward of a line drawn between the 2 poles situated near the upstream limit of the estuarine area (about 1 km upstream from the mouth):
a) when you are flyfishing, the total weight of the cast assemblage including trace, weight and fly, must not exceed 28g.
b) when using bait or fly fishing, or when fishing with an artificial fly, you may cast other than from the reel and may retrieve other than by winding onto the reel

(see below)

(see below)

Seaward of the river mouth, you may fish from boat only:
- if the boat is anchored
- between 7.00am and 9.00pm
- at a seaward distance greater than 200m from the nearest shore at low tide.

(The seaward boundary around the Rangitata River mouth is a line drawn at a distance of 500m from any place where the low tide waters of the river meet the waters of the sea.)

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Trout: 1 Oct-31 Mar

Trout: 1 Oct-30 Apr

1 Jun-31 Aug
(winter season)

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Total sportsfish: 2

Artificial fly, spinner

Trout: No limit
Salmon: N/A

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Trout: No limit
Perch & tench: No limit

Artificial fly, spinner, bait
A coarse fishing water.

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Artificial fly, spinner, bait

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Artificial fly, spinner, bait

Open all year to child licence holder's only.
Otherwise closed.

Artificial fly, spinner, bait
(child licence holders only)

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Artificial fly and spinner.

The Twizel river is affected by didymo. See Didymo Biosecurity Alert for details.

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Artificial fly, spinner, bait
Fishing from boats is prohibited.

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

First Sat in Nov -30 Apr

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Waitaki Hydro Canals:
Ohau B-Ohau C canal
Tekapo-Pukaki canal
Ruataniwha-Ohau B canal
Pukaki-Ohau canal

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Artificial fly, spinner, bait

1 Jun-31 Aug
(winter season)

Trout: No limit

Salmon:
Minimum 300 mm

Artificial fly, spinner

This river is affected by didymo. See Didymo Biosecurity Alert for details.