Regional Fishing Reports

Central South Island

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Weekly Fishing Report – Central South Island-08-10-2020

This week’s report was written well ahead of time, so I’ll leave this coming weekend’s weather and water level forecasting to you.

  • Central South Island
  • 8/10/2020
  • Richie Cosgrove
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Weekly Fishing Report – Central South Island -30-09-20

It’s Opening Day tomorrow, Thursday October 1st! The weather is set to play-ball, you beauty! Right: The Opihi River looking good the day before opening.

  • Central South Island North Canterbury
  • 30/09/2020
  • Richie Cosgrove
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North Canterbury Fishing Report 30th September 2020

Tomorrow sees the opening of most of the rivers in North Canterbury, along with a number of lakes.

  • Central South Island North Canterbury
  • 30/09/2020
  • Richie Cosgrove
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Weekly Fishing report for Central South Island & North Canterbury

What a difference a week makes! This time a week ago we were unaware of alert levels and lockdowns have only ever occurred due to some localised threat.

  • Central South Island North Canterbury
  • 27/03/2020
  • Richie Cosgrove
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Weekly Fishing Report – Central South Island - 19-03-2020

If you are heading to the canals this weekend and hope to catch a salmon, I suggest you try the Tekapo Canal around the Stilling Basin and salmon farms.

  • Central South Island
  • 19/03/2020
  • Richie Cosgrove
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Weekly Fishing Report – Central South Island - 12-03-2020

The canals are fishing OK currently with the occasional whopper getting caught, but the mainstay of the catch is rainbow trout and salmon around 1kg.

  • Central South Island
  • 12/03/2020
  • Richie Cosgrove
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Weekly Fishing Report – Central South Island Region - 05-03-2020

About this time last year, we re-introduced the seldom targeted sports fish tench to Centennial Park Lake in Timaru.

  • Central South Island
  • 5/03/2020
  • Richie Cosgrove
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Weekly Fishing Report – Central South Island- 27-02-2020

The weather this weekend is looking great for fishing but on Friday parts of the high country are set to get a drenching.

  • Central South Island
  • 27/02/2020
  • Richie Cosgrove
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Weekly Fishing Report – Central South Island - 20-02-2020

The fishing proved pretty good for salmon up at Ohau C Canal last weekend and I have had reports that they’re still catching them at a reasonable rate this week.

  • Central South Island
  • 20/02/2020
  • Richie Cosgrove
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Weekly Fishing Report – Central South Island - 13-02-2020

If you are heading to the canals this weekend, then Ohau C Canal is the place to target for small but legal-size salmon.

  • Central South Island
  • 13/02/2020
  • Richie Cosgrove
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