✨ Fishing Regulations
31 AUGUST NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
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or set rods are being used, unless all persons on board, hold an appropriate current licence to fish:
(d) When fishing for trout with a rod and running line from a boat, have in his possession any other assembled rod.
- Restriction on lures—(1) Subject to subclause (2) of this clause, no licence holder shall, in fishing for trout, use—
(a) Any lure containing the feathers of any bird absolutely prohibited under the Wildlife Act 1953; or
(b) With any lure, any medicated or chemical preparation other than a preparation used solely for the purpose of floating a dry artificial fly; or
(c) Any mollusc, or the freshwater crayfish (‘koura’) or worms, or the creeper, or the huhu or matai grub, or fish roe, or any imitation of any of the things specified in this paragraph.
Provided that the shell of any mollusc may be used in the preparation of an artificial minnow; or
(d) An artificial minnow in any water in which the use of artificial minnow is not prohibited, if the lure (including any weight, whether of metal or any other substance, used in conjunction with the lure to facilitate its casting or sinking) weighs more than 40 grammes:
Provided that this paragraph shall not apply to any licence holder that is fishing in the waters or from the bank of Lake Rotoma or of those parts of Lake Okataina or Lake Tarawera which lie outside the arc of a circle having a radius of 300 metres around the centre of the mouth or mouths of every stream, spring, or river flowing into or out of either of those lakes.
(2) No licence holder shall, in fishing for trout, use, in any river, or water specified in column 1 of the Schedule to this notice any lures other than those specified for that river or water in column 2 of the Schedule.
- Restrictions on the use of boats—(1) No licence holder shall take trout from a boat in the following places:
(a) The Ohau Channel and all those portions of Lake Rotoiti and Rotorua that are within a radius of 100 metres from the centre of the meeting lines of the Ohau Channel and these lakes, or such additional distance as indicated by the presence of a landmark;
(b) The Kaituna River from the boom to the landmark approximately 2500 metres downstream;
(c) Within a radius of 50 metres from the mid-point of the meeting line of the Tarawera River and Lake Tarawera;
(d) The Tarawera River from its outlet from Lake Tarawera downstream to the falls situated approximately 2500 metres downstream;
(e) Within a radius of 15 metres of the Wairua Stream mouth on Lake Tarawera, or the log pool stream mouth on Lake Okataina;
(f) In that part of Lake Rotoiti abutting the southern shoreline between landmarks situated at Ruato and Hinehopu and extending from that shoreline for a distance of 100 metres into Lake Rotoiti during the period the 1st day of July to the 30th day of September, both days inclusive;
(g) In that part of Lake Okataina abutting the northern shoreline between landmarks situated at Te Koutu Point and west of the Okataina Lodge, and extending from that shoreline for a distance of 100 metres into Lake Okataina during the period the 1st day of July to the 30th day of September, both days inclusive;
(h) In that part of Lake Tarawera abutting the western shoreline between landmarks sited at either end of the beach area known as the Te Walroa landing and extending from that shoreline area for a distance of 100 metres into Lake Tarawera during the period the 1st day of July to the 30th day of September in any year, both days inclusive.
(2) No licence holder shall take trout from any boat in:
(a) Waters that are reserved for natural fly or artificial fly fishing, unless the boat is securely anchored parallel to the river flow with no more than 2 anchors;
(b) Waters where fishing from a boat is restricted unless the anchor/s of the boat are also outside the restricted area;
(c) Those portions of the homestead arm of Lake Rerewhakaaitu and the Mangakino Stream contained within a line between the normal sites of 2 landmarks on the opposite sides of the homestead arm of Lake Rerewhakaaitu and the source of the Mangakino Stream, unless the boat is securely anchored at 1 end only:
Provided that nothing in this clause shall derogate from the provisions of subclause (1) of this clause.
- Revocation—The notice published in the New Zealand Gazette, 1988, pages 1878–81, titled Rotorua Trout Fishing District Anglers Notice 1988 as amended by notice No. 89, 25 May 1989, page 2064, titled Rotorua Trout Fishing District Anglers Notice 1988, Amendment No. 1 and the notice published in the New Zealand Gazette, 1987, No. 164, pages 4520–21, titled District Anglers (Tauranga Acclimatisation District) Notice 1987, are hereby revoked.
Approved at Wellington this 26th day of August 1990.
PHILIP WOOLLASTON, Minister of Conservation.
Schedule
Restriction on Lures
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| Description of Waters | Column 2
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(a) The Ohau Channel;
(b) Every stream or river flowing out of Lake Tarawera or Lake Rotoiti:
Provided nothing in this paragraph shall apply with respect to the Tarawera River below the site of a landmark approximately 2500 metres downstream from its outlet from Lake Tarawera or to the Kaituna River below the site of a landmark at Hinehopu’s steps approximately 1 kilometre downstream from its outlet from Lake Rotoiti where the mouth of the outlet is designated by landmarks; -
That part of Lake Tarawera which lies outside a line the ends of which are shown by landmarks on the shore, and which is 200 metres from and parallel to the shore of Kariri Point and Rangiputa Bay;
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Every stream, spring, or river flowing into Lake Rotoma;
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All waters contained within the arc of a circle having a radius of 300 metres around the centre of the mouths of every stream, spring, or river flowing into or out of the following lakes:
(i) Lake Rotoiti;
(ii) Lake Okataina;
(iii) Lake Rotoma;
(iv) Lake Tarawera;
(v) Lake Okareka;
(vi) Lake Rotokakahi;
(vii) Lake Rotoehu;
(viii) Lake Okataina;
(ix) Lake Rotomahana lying east of a line between the normal sites of 2 landmarks adjacent to the area known commonly as “the landing”; -
The Horomanga River;
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The Hopuruahine, Aniwhenua, and Mokau Rivers and their tributaries; and the waters of Lake Waikaremoana contained within the arc of a circle having a radius of 300 metres around the centre of the mouths of those rivers as indicated by landmarks by those river mouths:
Natural fly or artificial fly. Except as provided in the definition of “artificial fly” in clause 2 (2) of this notice, no spinning attachment nor anything made from lead, glass, plastic, or other material to facilitate casting or to increase the sinking of the line shall be added to the cast, line, or fly.
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Eastern Fish and Game Region District Anglers Notice 1990
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Fishing, Regulations, Angling, Eastern Region, Conservation, Bag Limits, Size Limits, Closed Season, Fishing Hours, Fishing Methods
- PHILIP WOOLLASTON, Minister of Conservation