Trout Fishing New Zealand's Rotorua

January 29, 2005 By: Marshall Cutchin

“With one hand gripping a native manuka tree, the stocky yet agile Maori fishing guide swung out over the stream and jumped into the churning water. He grabbed his client for the day, steadying them both and shouted at him to lift his fishing rod higher. The brown trout, seemingly under control and nearly at the angler’s feet, thrashed silver and brown on the foaming surface and bolted.” Julie Earl-Levine writes in today’s New York Times about what many consider to be the trout fishing capital of the world.