Great fishing still on offer
Sadly, April 30 marks the end of the main fishing season for many low country tributaries.
Sadly, April 30 marks the end of the main fishing season for many low country tributaries.
The Maniototo and lower Clutha areas are holding Otago’s highest concentrations of waterfowl, with moderate numbers spread throughout the rest of the region.
Fish & Game Ranger Steve Dixon has inspected one of the first marked salmon to return to the river following a series of releases.
Well rain, rain and rain, what a wet end to summer we have had. Rivers have for the most part remained blown and the saturated catchments run off with the slightest of rain straight into the river.
Well summer has, er, almost been here. When it has been hot it has been great, when it has been cold there has been snow reminiscent of early June.
At its last council meeting, councillors resolved to establish a new policy for the transfer of stranded trout.
Everyone knows someone who catches more than their share of fish. On days when others are scratching for a hookup or two, this angler is onto their seventh.
Three fast moving Swiss tourists caught at Lake Wanaka fishing without licences were prosecuted mere hours before they were to fly out of the country.
Most waterways are at low or normal levels, clear and in great condition for fishing.
MAF has informed Otago Fish & Game that the hatchery trout infected with the Aeromonas bacteria is not the ‘typical’ strain of the disease.