by Gavin McAuliffe | Aug 31, 2011 | Fly Fishing, Tips and Tricks
Fly Fishing Queenstown has one month to go before the 2011-2012 new season opens. Ye haa! Like fishing anywhere to be successful fly fishing Queenstown it pays to get your gear ready prior to the start of the season. I find it is a good idea to check through all your...
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...
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...