Richard Armarti joined 2 of his buddy’s for 3 days of fishing around Queenstown. The weather allowed us to get 2 great days before the rain set in and put most of the local rivers up high and coloured. Richard was an expert with his casting skills and on 1 of our days hooked well over 30 fish, well that’s a guess because we lost count after 20.

Trust me that is not a usual day by any means, but everything lined up on the day and when you understand about casting, presentation and getting the right drift things can work out just right!

After about an hour and making about 7 good casts this beautiful brown finally took a small pheasant tail (#18)  and we reckon he also had a go at the dry. What an amazing fish!

Good numbers of fish about this size were in places where you would expect a fish to be. Don’t be fooled though because they will still give you a run for your money and more often then not will take you for a walk down river if given the chance!!

Probably can’t tell by the photo, but the wind was on the nose and strong!! Wind on the nose is typical here in NZ so you have to prepare if you want to get results.

3 fish came up to the “dry” along this piece of water,  and gave some jumping action!!

The New Zealand Dream, back country river all to yourself!!

Over hanging Beech Tree, our NZ beech forest are masting this year?? Stayed tuned for what can happen to our trout by the middle of March next year!!

This day was Epic, when you boil it down. Richard hooked well over 20 fish with his skills!! Using his Winston 5 piece #6 for what it was built for!!

Fighting Wild Rainbow and Brown Trout in NZ.

As a guide it will be hard to forget this one!!

New Zealand Fly Fishing at it’s finest!!

Typical water.

If there was ever the perfect river that was built for trout, then this is one of them right here.

Richard quietly moved into this position and made 2 casts and hooked 2 fish 1 after the other.

That’s pretty good in my books!

This is the Greenstone River and requires a full season license with a back country stamp.

Many people ask us, what do you get when you take a helicopter??

If you don’t feel like it, or haven’t got the time to do the 5+ hour walk in and out then its not a bad option?

I reckon Richard would tell you the right answer, he’s lining up for more of the same next year.