Throughout April the trout fishing has been superb with the rivers and hydro lakes fishing well. So far it has certainly been an exceptional autumn.
Throughout April the trout fishing has been superb with the rivers and hydro lakes fishing well. So far it has certainly been an exceptional autumn.
Auckland Waikato Fish & Game's latest hunting newsletter is hot off the press and available here.
In recent years we’ve had all sorts of challenges thrown the way of our Waikato mallard population, including four years of droughts in a row, coupled with extraordinary flood events (and in the Waikato duck breeding seasons!).
Genesis Energy have advised that the Whakapapa footbridge, at the water recording site about a kilometre downstream from the Whakapapa Intake, is closed until further notice due to the need for engineering repairs.
We carried out three dive surveys over February. I was curious about what we’d find in the upper Whakapapa River
Auckland Waikato Fish & Game is asking landowners and hunters to monitor waterfowl populations on their properties and ponds for any signs of sick or dead birds.
Auckland Waikato Fish & Game is concerned at what appears to be a disease outbreak that has killed birds in the Firth of Thames area around the lower Piako River.
The special King Country paradise shelduck season has become somewhat of an institution in the Auckland/Waikato Fish & Game region. However, a decline in harvest and feedback from hunters and landowners has meant that there will be no special season in the King Country this year.
After a month of atrocious weather, summer is making a much desired appearance.
This summer’s trout research programme has started with streams in the King Country surveyed to estimate the numbers of juvenile trout.