Field guide
What our guides fish for, and how. Seasons by region, the methods that work, the outfit for each one, and the people who take you out for it.
11 species so far, covering 1,235 guide listings
Trout and salmon
Australian natives
Barramundi and tropical estuary
Estuary and inshore
Reef and bottom
Pelagic and game
In the field guide
Waters, methods and the things behind the fishing, one question per page.
Fishing the Ōreti River, SouthlandWaters · The Ōreti is a clear, gravel-bed brown trout river running the length of Southland.
How to catch tailor from the beachHow to · Find a gutter, a band of darker green water where waves rise but don't break, backed by a whitewater sandbank.- How to read a beach: gutters, holes and ripsExplained · Look from a dune or headland at low tide.
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