The information presented here is not meant to be taken as a complete statement
of the law. Please refer to the North Island regulations booklet supplied with
your fishing licence or view an online
version at the Fish & Game New Zealand website.
| |
Season |
Size limit |
Bag limit
(other than perch) |
Methods allowed |
| General rules |
| All waters in the region west of the Whanganui River not listed
below |
1 Oct 1-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 2
(Perch: No limit) |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| All waters in the region east of the Whanganui River not listed
below |
1 Oct 1-30 Jun |
None |
Trout: 4
(Perch: No limit)
|
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Fishing waters |
| Hangatahua (Stony) River upstream from the SH45 bridge |
1 Oct-30 Sept |
None |
Total trout: 2
Brown trout: 1 |
Artificial fly, spinner |
| Huatoki Stream upstream from Brois Street Bridge |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Huatoki Stream downstream from Brois Street Bridge |
1 Oct-30 Sept |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Kahouri Stream |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner |
| Kaiauai Stream |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 1 |
Artificial fly, spinner |
| Kapuni Stream upstream from Skeet Road Bridge |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 1 |
Artificial fly, spinner |
| Kapuni Stream downstream from Skeet Road Bridge |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Kohata, Lake |
1 Oct-20 Apr
10 Jul-30 Sep |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Kaupokonui Stream upstream from the SH45 bridge |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Kaupokonui Stream downstream from the SH45 bridge |
1 Oct-30 Sept |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Kohata, Lake |
1 Oct-20 Apr
10 Jul-30 Sep |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Lahar Lake |
1 Oct-30 Sep |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Makatote River |
1 Oct-30 Jun |
None |
Trout: 3 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Maketawa Stream |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Makotuku Stream |
1 Oct-30 Jun |
None |
Trout: 4 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Makuri Stream |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Mangamahoe, Lake, excluding the Waiwhakaiho inlet and tributaries |
1 Oct-30 Sept |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Flyfishing only.
No fishing from a boat. |
| Mangamahoe, Lake: the Waiwhakaiho inlet |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Flyfishing only.
No fishing from a boat. |
| Manganuioteao River upstream of the Orautoha Stream confluence |
1 Oct-30 Jun |
None |
|
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Manganuioteao River downstream of the Orautoha Stream confluence |
1 Oct-30 Sept |
None |
Trout: 3 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Manganui River |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Mangaoraka Stream |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artifical fly, spinner, bait |
| Mangatoki Stream |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Mangawhero Stream (a tributary of the Kaupokonui Stream) |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Mangawhero River, upstream of SH49 "golf course" Bridge
|
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 4 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Mangawhero River, downstream of SH49"golf course" Bridge |
1 Oct-30 Sept |
None |
Trout: 4 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Mangorei Stream |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Namunamu, Lake |
1 Oct-30 Sept |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Ngangana, Lake |
1 Oct-30 Sept |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Ngatoro Stream |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Oakura River |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Okahu Stream |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Opunake, Lake |
1 Oct-30 Sept |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Orautoha Stream |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 4 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Otakeho Stream |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Patea River upstream from Mangamingi Bridge |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Patea River downstream from Patea Dam |
1 Oct-30 Sept |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Pauri, Lake |
1 Oct-20 Apr
10 Jul-30 Sep |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Piakau Stream |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Raetihi Hydro Dam |
1 Oct-30 Jun |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Ratapiko Lake |
1 Oct-30 Apr
1 Jun-30 Sep |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Retaruke River upstream from Oio Road Bridge |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 4 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Retaruke River and tributaries downstream from Oio Road Bridge |
1 Oct-30 Sept |
None |
Trout: 4 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Rotomanu, Lake |
1 Oct-30 Sept |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Rotorangi, Lake downstream from Mangamingi Bridge |
1 Oct-30 Apr
1 Jun-30 Sep |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Ruatiti Stream |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 4 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Stony (Hangatahua) River upstream from the SH45 bridge |
1 Oct-30 Sept |
None |
Total trout: 2
Brown trout: 1 |
Artificial fly, spinner |
| Taonui Stream |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 4 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Taungatara Stream |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Tawhiti Stream |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Te Henui Stream |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Timaru Stream |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Tokiahuru Stream upstream from the bridge at SH49 |
1 Oct-30 Jun |
None |
Trout: 4 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Tokiahuru Stream downstream from the bridge at SH49 |
1 Oct-30 Sept |
None |
Trout: 4 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Waiaua River upstream from the SH45 bridge |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Waiaua River downstream from the SH45 bridge |
1 Oct-30 Sept |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
Waimarino Stream (tributary to the Manganuioteao River) |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 3 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Waingongoro River upstream from Eltham Road Bridge |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Waingongoro River between the Eltham Road and SH45 Bridges |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 4 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Waingongoro River downstream from the SH45 bridge |
1 Oct-30 Sept |
None |
Trout: 4 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Waiongana Stream |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Waitaiki Stream upstream from SH49 Bridge |
1 Oct-30 Jun |
None |
Trout: 4 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Waitaiki Stream downstream from SH49 Bridge |
1 Oct-30 Sept |
None |
Trout: 4 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Waitara River downstream from the Manganui River confluence |
1 Oct-30 Sept |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Waiwhakaiho River upstream from the end of Rimu Street extension |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Waiwhakaiho River downstream from the end of Rimu Street extension |
1 Oct-30 Sept |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Waiwhakaiho inlet to Lake Mangamahoe |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Flyfishing only.
No fishing from a boat. |
| Warea River upstream from the SH45 bridge |
1 Oct-30 Apr |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Warea River downstream from the SH45 bridge |
1 Oct-30 Sept |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Whanganui River, excluding tributaries |
1 Oct-30 Sept |
None |
Trout: 4 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |
| Wiritoa, Lake |
1 Oct-30 Sept |
None |
Trout: 2 |
Artificial fly, spinner, bait |