Story: Sports and leisure

Game fishing (3rd of 3)

Game fishing

Kevin Foothead and Mike Bramley from Waikanae hold their prize-winning fish, a 62-kg tuna, caught during a national fishing tournament at Whakatāne in 1990. Big game fishing attracted international interest from the start of the 20th century and along with surf-casting has become popular among New Zealanders.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Evening Post Collection (PAColl-0614)
Reference: EP/1990/0610-F
Photograph by Phil Reid

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Jock Phillips, 'Sports and leisure - Informal sports', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/2278/game-fishing (accessed 26 April 2024)

Story by Jock Phillips, updated 1 Sep 2015