For most low-country rivers, the season runs from October 1 to April 30, although the Mataura below
Gore will be open in 2006 through May 31. The Otago high-country season generally runs from the 1st of November through to
May 31st. But consult regulations for individual rivers. Fiordland rivers, for example, have delayed their opening date by
almost a month for the 2005/2006 season. And Canterbury high country rivers open the first Saturday in November.
Books & Articles on New Zealand Fly Fishing and Landscape
Busch, Tony. Trout Fishing: A Guide to New Zealand's South Island. David Bateman, Auckland, 1994.
Draper, Keith. Trout Flies of New Zealand. Auckland, Reed, 1982.
Hammond, Bryn. The New Zealand Encyclopaedia of Fly Fishing. Auckland NZ: The Halcyon Press, 1988.
Hill, Les and Graeme Marshall. Images of Silver. 2004.
Kelly, Greg. The Flies in My Hat. London, 1967.
Kent, John. North Island Trout Fishing Guide. Reed Press, Auckland, 1989.
Kent, J. South Island Trout Fishing Guide. Reed Press, Auckland, 1990. One of the most useful general guide books.
Kent, J. and Hallet, David (photographer). Classic Fly Fishing in New Zealand Rivers.
Craig Potton Publishing.
Marsh, Norman. Trout Stream Insects of New Zealand. Millwood Press, Wellington, 1983. If you buy only one book on New
Zealand trout flies, this should be it.
Marshall, Owen. Watch of Gryphons. Vintage/Random House, 2005. Recent collection by one of New Zealand’s finest short
story writers who often sets his work against the Otago and Canterbury landscape. Echoes of Chekhov, Hemingway and
Flannery O’Conner. Great reading on a trout fishing trip through the South Island.
McKenzie, D.W., ed. Reed New Zealand Atlas. Department of Survey and Land Information. Reed, Auckland, 1987.
J.C. Mottram (1914). Fly Fishing: Some New Arts and Mysteries. London, 1915.
Orman, Tony. Trout with Nymph. Auckland, 1974.
Orman, Tony. 21 Great New Zealand Trout Waters. David Bateman, Auckland, 1993.
Prendergrast, J.G. and Cowley, D.R. An introduction to New Zealand Freshwater Insects. Collins, Auckland, 1966.
Towns, D.R. and Peters, William. Fauna of New Zealand (#36): Leptophlebiidae. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln,
Canterbury, 1996. A must-have for New Zealand trout-bug fiends. Peters and Towns reclassify the largest New Zealand mayfly
group and identify new species.
Winterbourn, Michael J. and Gregson, Katherine, L.D. Guide to Aquatic Insects of New Zealand. Bulletin of the
Entomological Society of New Zealand, Auckland, 1989. A good general introduction to trout stream insects with an academic
bent.
