Hi
Herewith some New Zealand river exploratory trips and one sea fishing trip videos. The Bayliner in video 2 is only the thumbnail pic (before someone freaks out) the trip was done in our 2.8m SIB.
Trip up the Waikato River in our Zodiac Futura MK3
Sea fishing off Waimango Point was in our 2.8m Gemini
Trip up the Wairoa tidal river was done in our Nifty 3.65m
We went to explore the duck hunting hides on the Waikato River. The river in tidal with lots of submerged trees and river weed. Here we used our Nifty 3.65 and 5hp Yamaha
We have similar weather to the UK, rain, wind and more rain with average rainfall 640 - 1500mm BUT at the bottom of South Island it can reach 8000mm annually.