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Kōrero: Southland places

Trout fishing, Mataura River

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Trout fishing, Mataura River

The Mataura is Southland’s most favoured river for brown trout fishing, and has a national and international reputation.

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by Raoul Butler

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David Grant, Southland places – Eastern Southland, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/20181/trout-fishing-mataura-river (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā David Grant, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 25 May 2015.