New Zealand Gazette – 2017 – No. 76

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✨ Fishing regulations

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 76 — 28 JULY 2017

Limit: 4 trout and 2 salmon.

Pukaki – Ohau A Canal: Open season: 1 October to 30 September; Methods: Fly, spin and bait; Limit: 4 sports fish of which no more than 2 to be trout. No person shall in any one day take or be in possession of more than two salmon greater than 500mm taken from the Tekapo – Pukaki and Pukaki – Ohau A hydro canals, and the Ohau Canal from Lake Ruataniwha to Ohau C power station.

Rangitata Diversion Race from the intake downstream to Rakaia River Road: Open season: 1 October to 30 September; Methods: Fly, spin and bait; Limit: 4 trout and 2 salmon.

Rangitata River and tributaries upstream of Turn Again Point about 12km above the gorge: Open season: 1 October to 31 March for trout and 1 October to 28 February for salmon; Methods: Fly and spin; Limit: 2 trout and 2 salmon.

Rangitata River and tributaries downstream of Turn Again Point about 12km above the gorge: Open season: 1 October to 30 April for trout and 1 October to 31 March for salmon. Methods: Fly, spin and bait; Limit: 4 trout and 2 salmon; Winter season: Open downstream of State Highway 1, 1 June to 31 August; Methods: Fly and spin; Limit: 2 sports fish.

Note 1: A licence holder when fishing for sports fish in the Rangitata River or its tributaries: may use, seaward of a line drawn between the 2 poles situated near the upstream limit of the estuarine area, an artificial fly only if the total weight of everything attached to the cast does not exceed 28g, and may cast other than from the reel or retrieve other than by winding the reel only when using bait or fly fishing or when fishing with an artificial fly seaward of a line drawn between the 2 poles situated near the upstream limit of the estuarine area.

Note 2: Fishing from boats is prohibited in that part of the Region seaward of the Rangitata River mouth, except from an anchored boat between the hours of 7.00am and 9.00am on any day at a seaward distance greater than 200m from the nearest shore at low tide. The seaward boundary of the Central South Island Region around the Rangitata River mouth is a line drawn at a distance of 500m from any place where at low tide the waters of the river meet the waters of the sea.

Roundabout, Lake and its tributaries: Open season: First Saturday in November to 30 April; Methods: Fly only; Limit: 2 trout. Fishing from boats prohibited.

Ruataniwha, Lake including Wairepo Arm and Kellands Ponds: Open season: 1 October to 30 September; Methods: Fly, spin and bait; Limit: 2 trout and 2 salmon. Fishing from boats prohibited on Wairepo Arm and Kellands Ponds.

Ruataniwha, Lake tributaries including Wairepo Arm and Kellands Ponds tributaries: Open season: First Saturday in November to 30 April; Methods: Fly and spin; Limit: 2 trout and 2 salmon.

Saltwater Creek: Open season: 1 October to 30 September; Methods: Fly, spin and bait; Limit: 2 trout. Designated Coarse Fishing Water.

Spider, Lake and its tributaries: Open season: First Saturday in November to 30 April; Methods: Fly and spin; Limit: 2 trout. Fishing from boats prohibited.

Tekapo, Lake: Open season: 1 October to 30 September; Methods: Fly, spin and bait; Limit: 6 sports fish, no more than 4 to be trout and no more than 4 to be salmon.

Tekapo, Lake tributaries: Open season: First Saturday in November to 30 April; Methods: Fly, spin and bait; Limit: 4 trout and 2 salmon.

Tekapo – Pukaki Canal: Open season: 1 October to 30 September; Methods: Fly, spin and bait; Limit: 4 sports fish of which no more than 2 to be trout. No person shall in any one day take or be in possession of more than two salmon greater than 500mm taken from the Tekapo – Pukaki and Pukaki – Ohau A hydro canals, and the Ohau Canal from Lake Ruataniwha to Ohau C power station.

Tekapo River: Open season: First Saturday in November to 30 April upstream of lower powerlines across the river about 1km upstream from Lake Benmore and 1 October to 30 September downstream of lower powerlines across the river about 1km upstream from Lake Benmore; Methods: Fly, spin, bait; Limit: 4 trout and 2 salmon.

Temuka River: Open season: 1 October to 30 April for trout and 1 October to 31 March for salmon; Methods: Fly, spin and bait; Limit: 4 trout and 2 salmon.

Tengawai River: Open season: 1 October to 30 April for trout and 1 October to 31 March for salmon; Methods: Fly and spin; Limit: 2 trout and 2 salmon.

Tinwald Domain Pond: Open season: 1 October to 30 September for child licence holders only; Methods: Fly, spin and bait; Limit: 2 trout.

Twizel River and tributaries: Open season: First Saturday in November to 30 April; Methods: Fly and spin; Limit: 2 trout and 2 salmon.

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