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Best-in-decade start to game fish season

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

Sole ban blamed for leg break

Kingie smokes the competition

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

Sam Judd: Cost of the catch

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.

Shane Jones lands a 305.9kg marlin

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.

Early start increases chances of big catch

Back-country kai on the fly

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.

Great fishing on the Coromandel coast

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.

Hook, line and sinker: the best way to relax

Fishing: Big tides promise heavy catch bags

Fishing is a waiting game at the moment, with wind and weather playing havoc with anglers' hopes of getting out on the water.

Cray country lives up to its reputation

Crayfish and food. That is what springs to mind when the word Kaikoura is mentioned and the translation kicks in. So when Anton Evans offers to take us out in his 9m charter boat, the Rodfather, to pick up crays we don't hesitate.

Diver who died off North Cape coast named

A diver who died off the coast of North Cape yesterday passed away shortly after surfacing without his gear, police say.

Trout fishing on Lake Tarawera

The 2014 trout fishing season has opened. The New Zealand Herald ventured out onto Lake Tarawera to see how anglers were doing.

Ramp etiquette to float boats

As thousands of Kiwis prepare their boats to make a splash over summer, fishing expert Nicky Sinden has urged boaties to ensure their journeys don't sink before their vessels even hit the water.

Anglers get warning over 1080

The Department of Conservation is warning anglers not to eat trout in areas where 1080 poison has been dropped - a reversal of its position seven months ago.

Angler casts a line in print

Dave Witherow's Open Season is pitched at anglers, travellers, tourists and anyone who appreciates skilfully told fishing yarns.

Lively kahawai well worth a good chase

Hundreds of anglers will be out on the Waitemata and Manukau Harbours fishing from the shore and in boats next weekend trying to catch the biggest kahawai.

Get out on the water the snapper are here

Things are picking up on the fishing scene and in Auckland you don't have to go far to find snapper.