Two seasoned New Zealand spearfishermen found themselves in a sticky situation when over half a dozen sharks swarmed and stole their catch.

Thousands of anglers will next month take to the waters around New Zealand for the Million Dollar Snapper Challenge.

Thousands of anglers will next month take to the waters around NZ for the Million Dollar Snapper Challenge.

'The long-liners have been working this area," said Peter Blackwell, as he stopped the boat and dropped a baited ledger rig over the side.

The first trout have started to congregate at stream mouths in the Rotorua lakes, as temperatures plunged after this week's cold snap.

Snapper are still in close and around Auckland they can be caught in 4m of water off beaches like Eastern Beach and Cockle Bay, and along the shoreline of the East Coast Bays.

The families of two fishermen missing at Port Waikato endured a third anxious night waiting for any news of their loved ones.

A man rescued from a ledge after a fishing trip went horribly wrong was worried about what to tell his wife when he got home without any fish.

The weather and the moon seem destined to influence fishing over the Easter weekend. A full moon on Sunday will be viewed by many anglers as negative, particularly trout fishermen.

It has been 100 years since the first marlin was caught in New Zealand waters on a rod and line, and game fishermen are celebrating the occasion in the Bay of Islands.

Fishing is all about learning lessons, often relearning them, and the smart angler will always have an open mind.

The lure of game fishing is pretty strong at Fiji's Mango Bay, discovers Nicholas Jones.

People all around the country will be chasing game fish tomorrow as the annual national tournament starts.

Anglers are being given the chance to reel in the catch of their career - a $1 million snapper.

The assertion that 80 per cent of New Zealand’s original fish stock has gone due to commercial fishing needs to be challenged, writes Tim Pankhurst.

The game fishing season has started with some of the best fishing seen for 10 years.

Maritime law has a loophole at present which allows skippers and boat owners to exploit the lax conditions of other countries while sending the boats down under, writes Sam Judd.

When Shane Jones headed out with some mates on a charter boat in the Bay of Islands, he wasn't expecting to land a 305.9kg blue marlin.

It's summer on the Tongariro River. There's little to hear but the hushed burble of the river's shallow rapids, or the noise of the birdlife filling the bush that hugs its bends and banks.

What does our food say about us as Kiwis? In a five-day series, Jamie Morton and photographer Alan Gibson head out to discover what’s on the plate in our summer places.

The search has resumed this morning for a fisherman missing since yesterday.

In the year of dirty politics, Prime Minister John Key has often been accused of embarking on fishing expeditions.

In the second of the Sea Change series science reporter Jamie Morton looks at the health of the gulf’s fish populations.

A Kiwi invention that uses a drone to take much of the hassle out of fishing is gaining global attention.

Multimedia producer for NZME. Alan Gibson was filming near Gisborne when a kingfish tryed to swallow his camera. Alan was filming stingrays on the reef when the hungry fish had a crack at his GoPro.