Lake Rotoiti 'star performer' on trout opening, says Fish & Game. Lake Rotoiti has emerged as the “most improved” of Rotorua’s three popular trout fishing lakes - where the start of the new ...

Lake Rotoiti produced the biggest fish, ... Lake Rotoiti produces big trout on opening weekend. ... The largest was a 66cm brown jack which weighed 3.88kg. ...

At 6am next Saturday a siren will mark the signal to start casting and dozens of anglers lined up along the banks of the Ohau Channel will send their lines out across the water.

With that weight, Jones’ fish easily tops Shaver’s unofficial lake record: an 18-pound brown trout caught there in the 1980s. (California doesn’t maintain official lake records.) The state record ...