by Gavin McAuliffe | Jan 15, 2010 | Fly Fishing, Tips and Tricks
Drove bloody miles today in the search for some good fly fishable water from Queenstown New Zealand today after the last week of foul weather that has made many rivers in the region very full and dirty. The only clean water for the last couple of days has been...
by Gavin McAuliffe | Jan 9, 2010 | Fly Fishing
Well my last post showed what a ripping week my client had fly fishing to some big South Island New Zealand trout and those that looked closely at some of the photos may have been able to tell there wasn’t a whole lot of sunshine and warm weather –...
by Gavin McAuliffe | Dec 19, 2009 | Fly Fishing, Fly Fishing Reports, Tips and Tricks
Back from a overnight fly fishing trip based from Lumsden in Southland New Zealand with big smiles on both my face and my client’s. We left Queenstown with weather reports indicating 2 days of extremely strong winds followed by heavy rain on the afternoon of the...
by Gavin McAuliffe | Dec 15, 2009 | Fly Fishing, Fly Fishing Reports, Fly Fishing Video, Tips and Tricks
The last week in Southern New Zealand has seen quite a change in the rivers with the arrival of some wet storms instead of the dry windy ones we have seen over the last 2 months. The rivers have pretty much all come back up to much more normal spring size with the...
by Gavin McAuliffe | Dec 7, 2009 | Fly Fishing, Fly Fishing Reports
I have just got back from a multi day guided fly fishing trip south of Queenstown. We were based in my homestay and fished Southland for 5 days. My fishing clients went away happy after their first trip to the Southland area. We mainly fished brown trout waters and on...