by Gavin McAuliffe | Oct 10, 2011 | Fly Fishing, Fly Fishing Reports, Tips and Tricks
The Queenstown Fly fishing season is underway with great conditions both weather and water wise since the opening on the 1st of October. I managed to get out for a couple of days fishing with a good friend and look around and have a bit of an explore. I always try...
by Gavin McAuliffe | May 9, 2011 | Fly Fishing, Fly Fishing Reports, Fly Fishing Video, Tips and Tricks
Fly fishing Queenstown New Zealand in May the temps have dropped. All the lowland streams are closed for spawning but we still have our high country water open until the end of the month. The fly fishing is pretty bloody good! Make sure you come and get some before...
by Gavin McAuliffe | Apr 16, 2011 | Fly Fishing, Fly Fishing Reports, Tips and Tricks
It’s mid April and there are only 2 weeks to go until the low country rivers close for the season but the high country water stays open until the end of May down this way so there is still plenty of fly fishing left near Queenstown. It’s a great time to be...
by Gavin McAuliffe | Mar 17, 2011 | Fly Fishing, Fly Fishing Reports, Tips and Tricks
Just back from a weeks guiding south of Queenstown with a couple of fly fisherman from the USA. The weather did not make things too easy for us with 2 really nice days out of 7 and the rest were a combo of hurricane like winds, heavy rain, chubby rain (sleet) and...
by Gavin McAuliffe | Feb 28, 2011 | Fly Fishing, Fly Fishing Reports, Tips and Tricks
Fishing Queenstown and the surrounding areas sometimes you just have to do something different to get a fish to hit. It’s the time of year when trout are really zoned into chomping cicada’s but sometimes you have to thrown something bigger and uglier. On...
by Gavin McAuliffe | Feb 25, 2011 | Fly Fishing, Fly Fishing Equipment, Fly Fishing Reports, Tips and Tricks
The month of Feb has been a little better weather wise with at least one week that was stable and hot with heaps of terrestrial action and the rest of the time so far has be a bit variable with a disturbed SW system. Even so the trout have been fairly willing to hit a...