by Gavin McAuliffe | Aug 13, 2010 | Fly Fishing, Fly Fishing Video, Tips and Tricks
In my last post I recommended up-skilling your fly casting ability before coming on your fly fishing trip to New Zealand. Carl McNeil has a great clip below that shows some of these casts that will really up your chances of catching more fish while in NZ (or...
by Gavin McAuliffe | Apr 30, 2010 | Fly Fishing, Fly Fishing Reports
Rain, rain and more rain. We have seen some of the biggest rain events in 10 years or more and many rivers in the Southland region blew out to epic proportions. Lake Wakatipu is flooding into Queenstown although thank goodness because of the lack of snow in the...
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...