Study your tide times calendar and you should soon be getting some good results.

All is well until a salmon gobbles the hook, writes Sue Hoffart.

Jo and Ron left Tuakau to meet their fishing club for a day out snapper fishing on the charter vessel Gulf Raider.

When cicadas emerge from their long sojourn underground, trout stir for the feast to come.

When you drive through the Awakino Gorge, you notice the sparkling stream down in the bed of the valley.

Keep the rod up, keep it high," advised Glenn Skinner as the trout splashed on the surface by the boat.

A New Zealand luxury lodge has been recognised for its consistent high standards by a century-old English high society magazine.

A lone hero dived into the swirling tide to save a drowning woman. But who was he?

Leftover Christmas food has the sprats biting all day for Auckland visitors.

Gisborne's playful and friendly doplhin 'Moko' has a darker side.

Dave Cade is pushing hard to keep didymo - or rock snot - out of Taupo waterways.

The parore, or black snapper, is common in many fish-and-chip shops - although customers would never know.

A natural disaster has wiped out 80 per cent of breeding-size cockles, leading to a possible harvesting ban.

Our favourite catch masquerades under false colours.

Those old trouts can be slippery and stubborn, but my American mate Sam left triumphant.