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Lake Tarawera

Type
Lake or reservoir, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
Season
Oct–Jun
Where the season comes from

Tarawera Lake excepting areas below 1 Oct - 30 Jun FS 8

Set for this water by name.

Exceptions on the page:

  • Winter shoreline fishing area from Tarawera Outlet landmark to Te Tapahoro Bay landmark and 200m offshore All year FS 8
  • Winter shoreline fishing area from The Landing landmark to Otumutu Lagoon landmark and 200m offshore All year FS 8

Sports Fishing Regs 2026/27 Eastern
Fish & Game NZ · checked 2026-11-04. Dates change each season: confirm them there.

Live gauges
None listed
Listed by
1 authoritative list
Guides
None listed
Shops
1 nearby

Today on Lake Tarawera

No live reading
Why there is no reading

No provider we read publishes a machine-readable feed on this water. We show no number rather than a guessed one.

Regulations & lists Guides & shops

Lake Tarawera's grey-blue water past a bush-covered point, Mount Tarawera behind
Photo credit

Lake Tarawera with Mount Tarawera beyond. Photo: Michal Klajban, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

More about Lake Tarawera

Lake Tarawera is a lake in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand. Fish & Game Eastern lists it as one of its fisheries. Fish & Game Eastern names it one of the Rotorua “trophy lakes”.

Where to fish

About this

Nothing on this page grants or implies access: check the agency map, posted signs and landowner permission before you fish. Most waters here need a rod licence or permit and often a beat booking or club ticket; the listing pages under Regulations say which.

Nothing on this page grants or implies access.

Lake Tarawera on the map

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Shops and guides nearby

Map of Lake Tarawera: gauges, shops and guides

Restrooms

Map of Lake Tarawera, and shops and guides with an exact address nearby.

Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors · OpenFreeMap · © OpenMapTiles

Restrooms near Lake Tarawera

Restrooms near Lake Tarawera

Restrooms within 2 miles of Lake Tarawera in a straight line, nearest first, with what anglers found when they went. The map says a restroom is there, not whether it is clean or open today.

Map of the restroom near Lake Tarawera

Skip the map; every place is in the list below

Map of 1 restroom near Lake Tarawera, numbered as in the list, with the water’s point marked.

Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors · OpenFreeMap · © OpenMapTiles

  1. Restroom

    1.4 mi away in a straight line

    Not rated yet — be the first to tell other anglers if it's clean.

    Directions
    We don't know yet: is it clean? · flush or vault? · free? · open to everyone? · step-free? — tell other anglers: show the questions
    • Is it clean?
    • Flush or vault?
    • Free?
    • Open to everyone?
    • Step-free?

    Mapped on OpenStreetMap · see or fix it on the map

Restroom locations and map details: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License, read Oct 24, 2026. Ratings, answers and photos are members' own; who shared them is never shown, and every photo is reviewed before it appears. Visits older than 18 months no longer count. Distances are straight-line miles, not driving. Nothing here grants access to private land. Community guidelines.

More water near Lake Tarawera (6)

Sources OpenStreetMap via Nominatim (position)Overture Maps places (guide map points)

Where the map point comes from

Position: the OpenStreetMap feature “Lake Tarawera, Rotorua Lakes District, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand” (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), found with Nominatim; a point on or near the named feature, approximate.

We hold no access map for Bay of Plenty yet.

The map shows shops and guides nearby that publish a street address on their own website. Everyone else is in the lists below.

Regulations and official lists

About this

Each line is an official list that names this water. Those pages are the authority on seasons, licences, limits and closures for each beat or reach; read them before you go.

Guides and shops near Lake Tarawera

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Listings are unclaimed: confirm licensing, rates, dates and hours directly.

Guides

No guide within 60 km yet.

All Bay of Plenty guides

1 shop nearby

All Bay of Plenty shops

How these are chosen

Guides whose own website names this water come first, nearest first. Distances are straight-line.

Shops whose website names this water first, then fly shops within 100 km when the shop's website gives its location.

Guide and shop listings come from the Legendary directories.

Gear checklist

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A stillwater fly-fishing checklist for lakes and ponds: a 9–10 ft 5–6 weight rod, floating and intermediate lines, chironomids and leeches, and float-tube options, with estimated prices and where to buy.

Lakes & stillwater

9′–10′ rod, 5–6 weight, floating + intermediate lines · Rainbow, brook and brown trout in lakes

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Videos for this water (3)

Watch: stillwater trout basics

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Chironomids, leeches and where fish hold in a lake.

Public YouTube videos from established channels, chosen by us to support this page. Not sponsored; the creators are not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear.

  • Catch More Trout in Lakes Using Indicators – Stillwater Fly Fishing TipsEmbedded from YouTube · Fly Fish Food · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube
  • Stillwater Fly Fishing Is Simpler Than You Think! | Introduction to Stillwater Fly FishingEmbedded from YouTube · Fly Fish Food · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube
  • Why is this Chironomid Fly Pattern So Versatile? | Two-Toner BC Chironomid | Fly Tying TutorialEmbedded from YouTube · Fly Fish Food · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube

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Fish Tales

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Trip stories anglers chose to share publicly and tagged with Lake Tarawera.

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Sources for this page

Not a statement of access, fish presence or conditions.

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All 4 sources and dates

A water page organises discovery. It does not assert public access, legal access, current fish presence, guide availability or fishing conditions.

Live readings come from the named provider when the page is shown, under the licence shown on each card. Designations, species and the flagship note link to the agency or body that publishes them; this page copies only the list wording and the species names. Guide and shop listings come from the Legendary directories. Position: the OpenStreetMap feature “Lake Tarawera, Rotorua Lakes District, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand” (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), found with Nominatim; a point on or near the named feature, approximate. Water type is our own classification.