by Gavin McAuliffe | Feb 1, 2012 | Fly Fishing, Fly Fishing Reports, Tips and Tricks
The long hot dry spell seems to have dried up for now in the lower South Island but the Queenstown fly fishing has remained good and in fact has actually improved as there is more water in the rivers and the water temps have lowered a touch to much more favourable...
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 | 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...