Big Al has been trying to catch a big GT for about 10 years. He has made thousands of casts with a surface popper on heavy tackle in waters from Vanuatu to the Cook Islands to Tonga.

Just as hunters swap their rifle for a shotgun when the attention switches from stags to ducks, so the fishermen who never stop pursuing their love change with the seasons.

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.

After a four-hour battle with a monster tuna, an exhausted Donna Pascoe didn't need to be told she'd just hauled in a record-breaker.

A fishing boat captain has died after being impaled by a 1.82m-long swordfish in a Hawaiian harbour.

When you reach Welcome Rock 800m above the homestead at Blackmore Station you can see why visitors are amazed by the breathtaking 360 degree scenery.

A reader writes: Is it safe to eat the oysters growing in clumps in the Manukau Harbour?

Although they are frequent visitors to the Manukau and Kaipara Harbours, white sharks are rarely seen in the gulf.

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.

Who owns the foreshore on the Waitemata Harbour? Who owns the various wharves along the city waterfront?

My metamorphosis from stuck-up Pommy bastard to blossoming into some sort of Kiwi has gathered speed lately.

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.

It took seven hours in the water and a 12-minute tug-of-war, but Rochelle Potter has fished up a world record.

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.