Snapper fishing changes with the season and there are two main options available.

There are plenty of fish around, but they are not spread all over the ocean.

Water temperature is the key to fishing.

Seven-year-old Awarua WiHongi is proof small people can achieve big things.

The first trout have started to congregate at stream mouths in the Rotorua lakes.

Fishermen looking to tag bronze whaler sharks instead came upon three great whites.

The advent of circle hooks, also known as long-line hooks or recurved hooks.

LegaSea Hawke's Bay wants MPI to increase restrictions. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

The weather seems destined to influence fishing far more than usual.

The company which monitors the fishing industry is owned by its biggest lobby group.

Rare patches of hot action around the coast, but overall the summer won't be memorable.

Donna Pascoe has broken her own record by landing a monster 420kg blue marlin.

Businessman who demanded a fishing contest winner take polygraph declared bankrupt.

Fishing: This summer has not been a memorable one for fishing in the harbour.

A teen who caught a 203.7kg marlin has won big at a Bay of Islands fishing competition.

Weekend asked Nicky Sinden, host of TV show ADOS Addicted to Fishing to name her favourite weekend destinations with boat and trailer

Commercial anglers are black marlin's greatest threat.

The tourist was given advice on notifying someone of his plans, and any changes to those plans.

Aucklanders have been hooked by a Coastguard funding drive to catch fish for charity.

Show us the best weekend road trip, and you could soon be taking to the road for a weekend in a refined Ford Everest.

Even though metrics has been the official system of weights and measures for a generation now, serious anglers still rank their catches the old-fashioned way.

A father and son have been fined for running a black-market crayfish operation.

Wade Wilson made the catch of a lifetime from a tiny boat.

With cooler-than-normal water temperatures game fishing has been slow to start this summer, and numbers of game fish are down.

Almost six months after falling 14m down a Coromandel cliff face a 20-year-old man has made a full recovery, which he credits in part to his speedy rescue by the Auckland Westpac Rescue Helicopter.

Geoff Thomas writes: My friends' experience is a stark lesson in the danger of discarding anything in the water that is not natural.

The moon does affect the weather, and it usually delivers fine, settled conditions.

Fish are motivated by two factors - food and security.

Incredible footage shows shark making a spectacular break for freedom.

Over the past five years nobody has beaten four out of the six trophies in the Rheem Big Six Challenge. But this year Tony Cain changed that.