Fishing near Wellington, Wellington

Wellington sits at the southern tip of the North Island, where the harbour meets Cook Strait. The city is surrounded by productive saltwater fishing — snapper, kahawai, trevally, gurnard and kingfish from the harbour and the strait — alongside a network of freshwater rivers in the wider Wellington Fish & Game region, including the Hutt, Ruamahanga, Waikanae and Ōtaki, that are known principally for brown and rainbow trout fishing ranging from accessible urban stretches to remote backcountry streams in the Tararua and Ruahine Forest Parks.