by Gavin McAuliffe | Dec 13, 2010 | Fly Fishing, Fly Fishing Reports, Tips and Tricks
Talking to people around from all walks of life in both work and recreation the spring in the Southern Lakes has been one to remember. Hot and dry. So the last couple of days of rainfall has been happily received by all. Most of the catchments have received some water...
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 | 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...
by Gavin McAuliffe | Nov 2, 2010 | Fly Fishing, Fly Fishing Equipment, Fly Fishing Reports, Tips and Tricks
October has been and gone with some awesome fishing. Yesterday was the opening of the NZ back country rivers with the odd exception in the Central South Island region which don’t open until early December. The weather was amazing with a blue bird day and light...
by Gavin McAuliffe | Oct 22, 2010 | Fly Fishing, Fly Fishing Reports, Tips and Tricks
The last week near Queenstown New Zealand has seen some great fly fishing even though the weather has not been easy with fronts coming thru every day or so carrying cold rain and snow to quite low levels. Using some local knowledge of how to work the weather and what...
by Gavin McAuliffe | Oct 14, 2010 | Fly Fishing, Fly Fishing Reports, Tips and Tricks
Again the early season fly fishing in Southland proves fantastic with a great run of weather over the last 3 or 4 days. The rivers have remained fairly full and contain some snow melt making for a green clean look. Yesterday saw my very skilled fly fishing client hook...