by Gavin McAuliffe | Oct 29, 2011 | Fly Fishing, Fly Fishing Reports, Tips and Tricks
Southland Fishing is set right amongst the roaring forties and we were seriously reminded of this a few days ago. A powerful storm blew in recording gusts in Stewart Island of 180 kph and in Queenstown and Southland of 130kph. A friend of mine had been on one of the...
by Gavin McAuliffe | Oct 24, 2011 | Fly Fishing, Fly Fishing Reports
Southland fly fishing has been a mixed bag since the opening of the season. I spend a great deal of my time guiding and fly fishing Southland. Sometimes staying for periods of time in our Lumsden fishing crib (house) and sometimes traveling to and from Queenstown for...
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 | 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 | Nov 13, 2010 | Fly Fishing, Fly Fishing Reports, Tips and Tricks
Since my last post the weather has been stunning, the rivers in great nick and the trout have been there for the taking. With all the water open down our way the is plenty of choice of where to fish on any given day and we have seen plenty of rainbows and browns to...