Thread: Rudd, perch and cat fish in the Auckland waikato area

Originally Posted by Russian 22.

I will have a look at that thanks.



Water quality puts me right off.

A few years ago it was really nice. Now it's mostly duck and geese shit as opposed to water.



Do you need specific permits for the hydro lakes?

I believe you do need a license from F&G, I never did though (I was a kid and knew no better).


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Originally Posted by tanqueray

I believe you do need a license from F&G, I never did though (I was a kid and knew no better).


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Likewise, never saw a ranger either.

Well @Russian 22. we could do a night trip to PooPuke and fill up the freezer with snapper bait.

Perch, tench and rudd (Auckland/Waikato only) are "game fish", so you do need F&G license to fish for them. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me as they are not stocked or managed as far as I can tell, but a lot of things don't make sense!

Alot of Rudd in Lake Karapiro, bit of bread on a hook on a standard spinning setup and you're away. We caught dozens with the kids, not too bad pan fried.

Originally Posted by 300CALMAN

Likewise, never saw a ranger either.

Well @Russian 22. we could do a night trip to PooPuke and fill up the freezer with snapper bait.

Sounds like a plan. I'll send a text and we can make it happen.

Originally Posted by MB

Perch, tench and rudd (Auckland/Waikato only) are "game fish", so you do need F&G license to fish for them. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me as they are not stocked or managed as far as I can tell, but a lot of things don't make sense!

Sounds like they get their money for nothing

Originally Posted by mawzer308

Alot of Rudd in Lake Karapiro, bit of bread on a hook on a standard spinning setup and you're away. We caught dozens with the kids, not too bad pan fried.

Awesome thanks!

Every year there is the Lake Taupo catfish cull, a fun competition for spearfisherman useing traditonal spear (hawian spear I think its called) its a fun competition with lots of prizes supported by Waikato regional council. They get trailer fulls of them and one year they had a chef and a barbi cooking catfish. My son said it tasted ok. Snorkling at dusk with a torch and spear could be a fun activity with the kids as they are even close to shore. No licence needed for catching catfish by any means just not allowed to put them back

Is a license required to fish koi and rudd?

This makes no sense
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Originally Posted by Three O'Three

Is a license required to fish koi and rudd?

not for koi but yes for rudd in the auckland/waikato region as they are deemed naturalised. AKA we gave up trying to get rid of them so pay us for a license.

truth be told I doubt you would get in much trouble if you caught a rudd as by catch if you were targeting koi.

just bring a decent stick to smack the koi carp on the noggin.

Lived on the back of a lake at Ohiniwai locally known as Black Lake. Full of catfish that came up the farm drains to spawn. Pretty good eating, plenty of meat on them, cooked over swampwood fire (willow, native), on a couple of pieces of No 8 wire. I guess anything tastes good to a hungry 14yr old hunting hares and escaping chores out in the Willow swamps. Especially cooked over a smokey wood fire.

I had rudd in a dam here (haven't seen any for awhile so not sure if they are still there).
On hot days they appeared to be taking something off the surface so I tried a dry fly and they took it.
Usually just used a small float and a lump of dough or corn.