Pure Fly NZ

Andrew Harding and Matt Hince team up to visit a huge man-made lake, one of New Zealand's most famous trophy trout waters, in the country's North Island: Lake Otamangakau.

New Zealand's Southland's four major rivers are famous as brown trout fisheries, especially in the upper and middle sections, but in this episode Anto Hall and Mike Wilkinson are heading to the estuaries, to fish the annual smelt run.

Discovering new waters to fish is among the pinnacles of the fly-fishing experience, and this saltwater flats fishery, Golden Bay, is just such a gem. Kingfish have a unique relationship with short-tailed stingrays, which they use as mobile cover.

A helicopter ride takes anglers Cory Scott and Chris Charland deep into the mountains to target New Zealand's famous trophy trout, but an approaching weather-bomb may cause them a headache.

Lake Taupo was formed in the caldera caused by an enormous volcanic explosion. The Tauranga is one of the few tributaries that the lake's legendary rainbow trout use to spawn.

The South Island's Otago Lakes District is the location for remarkable autumn trout fishing brought about by the fish leaving the lakes and heading upstream to spawn.