Wettie southland

18/12/2025

Our Christmas giveaway winner David! Thanks for all the support this year team! And sorry we aren’t as available as usual and putting up with limited stock! Luckily the team at McDermott Marine has you covered for spearguns, harnesses and float boats!

Make sure to pop in an support them to for those Xmas Presents!

16/12/2025

Checkout what our mate Oliver Crawshaw has been up to! Exploring the North Island and taking some nice eating snapper!!

15/12/2025

Well we have two winners! Thank you for all the love and support in sharing our posts and supporting local businesses! Don’t forget we have a we amount of stock at McDermott Marine on Dee Street Invercargill!

Congratulations to David Armstrong on winning the small float boat!

And to Jayde Blair on winning the inflatable
Life jacket as kindly donated by McDermott Marine for the holiday spirit!

Please flick us a message. Support local this xmas!

14/12/2025

The weathers finally clearing and making for some ideal Southland conditions! Ambassador Phoenix showing dad how it’s done and nabbing his PB butterfish!

We have our reef pro in a variety of lengths available in Invercargill at McDermott Marine! Check them out or treat yourself to an early birthday present!

12/12/2025

Round two… ohh it’s not as bad as I… next minute… small tasty kinas from the Pelorus Sound!

11/12/2025

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09/12/2025

It’s coming up to Christmas so it’s time to share some Christmas cheer!

We are going to be giving away a mini floatboat and the generous lads at McDermott Marine an inflatable lifejacket!

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06/12/2025

Hope the diving windows are continuing for everyone down south. Don’t forget we have float boats and spearguns and weight harnesses for sale at McDermott marine on Dee street in Invercargill.
Small medium and large, perfect for smashing those crays or kinas !

03/12/2025

Check out the run down on our 8416 sounder running a fantom x radar. Loving the motion scope feature that identifies boats moving to and from you as either green or magenta! Loving having this as a backup for poor viz days or night time returns

02/12/2025

Agree with it or not the ruling comes Into effect from today with a new bluecod limit of 10 in the Southland region.

Just an FYI

30/11/2025

Throw back to some amazing diving hitting different species than what we normally get in the Deep South. Looking forward to trying to target a nice kingi on the spear for summer!

25/11/2025

ATTENTION ALL SPEAROS & DIVERS

There’s a submission to drastically change the areas commercial spearfishing can harvest reef fish. Aka butterfish in the Marlborough sounds. The first thing that needs happen is a stock assessment to see where the butterfish fishery is actually at.

I’m backing Option 1 – leave the area as it is, and I’m asking you all to speak up too. This isn’t about cutting into anyone’s livelihood — it’s simply about protecting an already stressed butterfish fishery before it gets pushed past the point of no return.

On my recent dives in the Marlborough Sounds, the drop in butterfish numbers compared to just five years ago was honestly shocking. Spots that used to hold plenty now feel empty. And when commercial spearfishers down south have already had to switch back to gill-netting because butterfish weren’t commercially viable anymore, that tells you the pressure is real.

Opening more areas right now would only increase catchability on a fishery that’s clearly struggling. That’s the wrong move in anyone’s book.

This isnt an attack on commercial fishing this is both recreational and commercial need to come together to protect the fishery.

Please make your voice heard. Flick through a submission using the email in the link — get it in before Friday. Protect what’s left so we still have a future fishery to enjoy.

It’s proposal 18 to look at page 31 in document or 35 when viewing it

Have your say Fisheries New Zealand is seeking feedback on a package of 19 proposed changes, mostly to commercial fishing regulations. Most changes have been proposed by representatives of the commercial fishing industry as a means to remove redundant regulations and regulations that are overly comp...