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 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 18, 2011 | Fly Fishing
Well the big water we got over the Xmas/New Year period certainly has made the fishing much tougher over the last week or so. I have been thru many places in Otago, South Westland and Southland on a Fly Fishing Safari with a couple of anglers over the last 7 days and...
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...