by Gavin McAuliffe | Feb 6, 2011 | Fly Fishing, Fly Fishing Reports
Since the big Xmas floods the weather has been quite indifferent with a new front every other day bring wind then rain hard on it’s heels. When we have had fine weather its been great but the fine weather holes have been quite small before the next front has...
by Gavin McAuliffe | Jan 5, 2011 | Fly Fishing, Fly Fishing Reports
The last week or so has seen some unbelievable weather. Some of the biggest and wettest storms for a fair while. Many rivers have been up and dirty and the lakes are rather full in fact close to flood levels with Lake Wakatipu on its first flood alert. More heavy rain...
by Gavin McAuliffe | Nov 29, 2010 | Fly Fishing, Fly Fishing Reports, Tips and Tricks
The weather has continued to be unseasonably warm and the rivers have all been quite low but in excellent condition and producing some very good fishing. Fishing a dry fly has certainly been great on a number of days, especially on the rainbow rivers where they have...
by Gavin McAuliffe | Apr 28, 2010 | Fly Fishing, Fly Fishing Reports, Tips and Tricks
Autumn can be a great time to fish for trout near Queenstown New Zealand for many reasons and one of them can be the last of the cicadas left in the back country. They have darkened right off to almost black and on a nice hot afternoon if you hear the odd one still...
by Gavin McAuliffe | Apr 7, 2010 | Fly Fishing, Fly Fishing Reports
Wow – the finish of daylight seems to make such a difference down here to the light. It seems so much softer during the day. The last week saw a very wet storm front stall over the Fiordland and South Westland which dropped around 400 – 500ml of rain....