There's no mucking around when you go fishing in the Chathams.

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

When fish are thin on the ground, laying a berley can get snapper biting.

One fisherman drowned and three others spent hours clinging to their boat after it capsized in the mouth of the Manukau Harbour.

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.

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

Dazzling colours and a will to fight make the mahimahi a worthy opponent.

Playtime or dinnertime ... diver Kirisimasi Foaga didn't know which it was as six orcas swam towards him and nudged him.

It pays to keep a close eye on the hunters in the sky, says Geoff Thomas.