Hot weather continues for fly fishing near Queenstown New Zealan - The weather has continued to be unseasonably warm and the rivers have all be 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 river more...
Simon Wilkinson - Queenstown

tunning fly fishing weather and conditions near Queenstown New Z - 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 rainbow more...
Simon Wilkinson - Queenstown

New Zealand back country fly fishing waters now open - 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 more...
Simon Wilkinson - Queenstown

Trophy Trout landed south of Queenstown New Zealand - 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 f more...
Simon Wilkinson - Queenstown

New Zealand Fly Fishing season is open - I just got back from 4 days looking around Southland over the opening of the 2010 – 2011 New Zealand fly fishing season. As expected the biggest storm in 50 yrs has had some effect on many of the rivers in Southland. Some big flood flows have moved c more...
Simon Wilkinson - Queenstown

New Zealand Season Opens in 1 week - One week to go until the NZ rivers open for fly fishing on the 1st of October. Excited - I bet you are! I am!! So are you going to go to one of your old fav's or are you going to look for some new water to hit on the opening? Sometimes it can be a more...
Simon Wilkinson - Queenstown

Hard Pulling Fish a Plenty! - Hi All It has been a wee while since we posted a report from over here, it has been an awesome season with plenty of fish around. The marlin season has finished now and we nailed a few goals for the season, with a nice striped marlin on jigging more...
Carl Muir - Coromandel

Fly fishing remote rivers South of Queenstown New Zealand - My last guiding trip went well hiking into a remote valley south of Queenstown New Zealand for 3 days fly fishing and 2 nights camp out using cocoon bivvy's. The weather was about as good as it gets although bloody cold at night with frost develop more...
Simon Wilkinson - Queenstown

Fly Fishing, Daylight saving, storms and trout - Wow – the finish of daylight seems to make such a difference down here to the light. It seems so much softer during the day. The last week saw a very wet storm front stall over the Fiordland and South Westland which dropped around 400 – 500ml more...
Simon Wilkinson - Queenstown

The last few months - The weather has been pretty rough over the last couple of weeks near Queenstown NZ with many storms fronts coming thru delivering plenty of wind, rain and snow. However the last few days have been pretty nice and brought plenty of welcome reli more...
Simon Wilkinson - Queenstown