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Fishing: Slow start to game season
With cooler-than-normal water temperatures game fishing has been slow to start this summer, and numbers of game fish are down.
Seafood delights at city's front doorstep
Sometimes you don't have to go far from Queen St to find the sort of fish and seafood that normally involves extensive travel around the country.
Geoff Thomas: Fickle snapper prove elusive in gulf
The gannets set their sharp wings like those on a jet plane.
Geoff Thomas: Use current to get big snapper
When fishing in places like the Rangitoto Channel, Tauranga Harbour or any harbour with strong currents, the bigger snapper hang back from the boat.
Geoff Thomas: Change to snapper rules stupid and unnecessary
The changes to the recreational snapper fishery on the east coast of the North Island will result in more fish being killed, and will not solve the perceived problem of diminishing fish stocks.
Geoff Thomas: Quota system hardly a success now is it?
The controversy over proposals to cut recreational snapper fishing has not affected the actual fishing.
Geoff Thomas: Good bags to be had despite winter
Snapper fishing and diving have been producing some excellent bags in spite of the wintry conditions.