Thread: Lake Ōkataina closed!!

I don't know anything about it but the closed period looks like it is open on the weekends ? Only closed from Monday evening until Friday morning. Unless of course someone has done a cut and paste and other info has been left off

Originally Posted by No.3

There is nothing anywhere about this new closure, not even on F&G or the lakes trust websites? BoPRC website and Rotorua Council the same, nada?

Got an email from the chairman of f&G. Yes nothing on any other sites. MPI have sat on their hands.

Closed for the roar ..to general public that is ..

Originally Posted by The bomb

Closed for the roar ..to general public that is ..

Nothing in the media…. Other
Lakes will be next but probably not
Until the first day of the new fishing season

My son was on OKataina at first light with his mate.

Crazy world

Yes that’s because it’s open Friday- Sunday only

Does anyone know if the jetty has been put back in?

I was up there over christmas i believe it was but you do have to get your boat cleaned and certified. The place to do that is nowhereclose either, rotoiti had forms you had to fill out and put in your windscreen before you
Launch so maybe signs they will do same. Aside from that still great fishing at rotoiti.

hopefully they at least create more cleaning stations.

Originally Posted by Luckyluke111

hopefully they at least create more cleaning stations.

They are not needed. It needs to be called out for what it is which is bullshit. There is no skiing or wake boarding permitted on the lake (unlike Rotoiti and tarawera where there is more of a risk from Waikato boats) so it is clearly political.

My boat has never been to the Waikato or any other freshwater location so why should I have to wash it every time I go there.


F&G need to ramp it up and ask questions of MPI and Todd Mclay about why there is a bio security notice still in place and why it’s treated differently than tarawera or rotoiti.