Fiordland offers a wilderness experience that will leave you speechless to say the least…

Clear water that offers the fly fisherman the dream of casting to sighted fish.

Big boulders and fast water made this place a challenge to hook and land fish, lots of handy foot work was needed for sure!! Robb landed a nice rainbow from this pool.

Shooting some nice line at browns and rainbows that were keen to rise to a dry fly well presented..

Fish on brother!! Robb pulled a few hole in 1’s, at least 5 that day.

Nice brown to the net, 1 of 15 or so for the day..

Fiordland, special country for sure.

The release..

Typical water that makes you think that it is all a dream, crystal clear and full of wild rainbow and brown trout.

If you are reading this and a fly fisherman then i reckon that you would be pretty happy standing in the middle of this river. Over 4 days we never seen a foot print apart from deer and never once did we think about what was going on in the rest of the world..too busy living the moment…

Every corner you turn just gets better and better, this river offered a different clarity of water…chur bro,

More big boulders and cyrstal clear water and a healthy rainbow connected.. and landed.

The Camp Pool..

About to fish the flats, cruising browns coming up and taking drys..

What a river huh, never been to the amazon but i imagine it could look like this in some places?

Typical Brown, healthy and full of fight and keen to take a dry if presented right.

Double hook ups, fishing the flats…totally on…

Fish on..

Another nice rainbow to the net..

Dream water is all i can say about this place..

Another brown for the release..

Rainy morning, but still they came up and took dry’s.

The Camp Pool, Robb had travelled from Afghanistan to Queenstown, One of his requests was to sleep on the side of a river under a tree. The first night was as riverside as you could get, and them beech tree’s we slept under are no ordinary tree either. Next morning Robb even caught a rainbow on a dry from his sleeping mat, now that is priceless. I missed the strike from my sleeping bag a few minutes later!!

chur brother, this is the most amazing river, the water is something else..

The release..

Typical brown over the 4 days, nice fish all keen to take of the surface, hi viz parachute adams #14 all day long.

The reflection pool, robb hooked 5 fish in this pool, landed 3..

Check the water, unreel

Cruising Browns all pretty much the same size, really nice fish.

This is one of the most pristine rivers i have ever seen, just magic..

These are a few photos of 4 days of fishing in the back country. If you are thinking of coming to NZ for the fishing trip of a life time, give us a call we will make it happen. We access these areas by boat and helicopter and camp riverside, use tents, back country huts, or just sleep under the stars.

Wilderness fly fishing will put you in the places just like Robb Meyers, believe me Robb will be back and we have other place just like these to visit, there are 10 lifetimes of beautiful rivers to be fished here, you had better call us and make a start to visiting what we call dream-waters.

Flying down from Queenstown was a experience on it’s own and cruising around the sound was breath taking to say the least.

If you and your friends are looking for something out of the box give us a shout because that is what we do, we like to take you to places where the only people you will see are who you choose. The rest will be some of NZ’s most pristine landscape.

You will get to have a pretty good feed along the way as well as fresh as it comes out of the cold pure waters of southern New Zealand.

Fying down over what we consider to be one of the most pristine places on the planet, our backyard.

Ross and Lex from Brisbane at the letter box to where??

Kisby Lodge, this place and area is rich in New Zealands early history. From the gold mining to fishing, sealing, hunting, and stories and locations that will tell the tales of the early Maori explorers to the area.

Landing on the barge and meeting our boat, unreal!!

Myself and Gordy, these machines are the closest thing i know to time travel. The only way in to this place is by water or air unless you have 3-5 days to spend hiking in and out.

Our boat for the day, ready to go for a cruise

Lets go.

Crayfish for lunch, yum yum

Ross and Graham tucking into some fresh Terakihi. Straight fromth cold southern ocean.

Garlic butter and cray tails, anybody for lunch.

Forget about the green stuff boys.

About to get aboard the helicopetr and head back to Queenstown.

Flying home

You haven’t seen rain until you see what it can do in Fiordland!! Milford Sound has been called the 8th wonder of the world and when you see the place after its been raining for a few days you will see why!!

Randy & Family had walked the Milford Track. Actually they had to be helicoptered out on the last day because of severe flooding and along with Brendan Thow we were the transfer back to Queenstown via a few special spots along the way.

Gordy, the wild west coast.

Randy O'connor and his family, the west coast of southern NZ

Isolation on the west coast NZ

The wild west coast, hut and Open fire, some good food and conversation...

Raining one minute, sunshine the next..

A brew and some nice food, pretty nice..

Exploring a deserted beach.

Sunshine 1 minute raining the next..

Getting away from the hustle and bustle...

The photos ran out about here, but beleive me the rest of the way back to Queenstown was pretty nice, calling in at the haast pub, then flying through to makarora and finding some trout and putting a couple on the bank to be released again. Then back to Queenstown about 4 hours after leaving Milford Sound. Heli exploration of the west coast NZ, if you want to over dose on scenery the this is for you!!

The Fishing Dairy has lacked evidence of our busyness,  I’ll let the pictures tell a few of the stories of some of the adventures we have been getting into.

This one in particular was with Bob Payne and his family from California. A heli-scenic into Milford Sound and some Fly Fishing on the way. Not a bad way to finish 2009 off and see 2010 in..

Chamois are quick, elusive and have extremely good eyesight making them one of the more treasured trophies. Male and female carry horns and are available to hunt all year. The mating period when the buck is with the does is May-June. This is considered the more favourable time. Free range hunting: Private/public land.

Gordy Watson from Glenorchy and i went for wander along the tops in search of  the elusive Chamios. A good part of the time was spent glassing and spotting some rugged terrain favoured by the animal, with a few of them about we ended up taking a few photos instead and were just happy to be amongst the environment.

John and Peter were into some exploration of our high country rivers. The weather in the west was rough so we hit central Otago. This place is Cowboy and Indian country that offers some challenging fishing and will give your skills a test. We mixed up the accommodation with Local Pubs, and a overnight Tent camp.

Managed to fish the Greenstone for a day, flying with Brendan at Alpine Choppers. Over all we had some great fishing with a few shots at some good fish. My personal definition of a good fish is 7 pound + and we had shots and hook ups on more then a couple of good fish. One fish up in the Nevis would have been 10 pound + easily!

Cheers Peter and John, looking forward to the next mission code” FIORDLAND”

Myself,Gordy Watson, Craig, Wendy & Shane Cole, Just being there is special. If there was ever a place to go fly fishing in your wildest dreams?? This could be it!!

Gordy and Shane, stalking some dream-water. Put yourself in the picture??

Gordy and Craig with a nice Brown that put up a great fight amonst some fallen beech tree.

Craigs, Healthy Brown that will live to battle another day.

Wendy with a nice fish to the net, gordy in the guiding seat doing what he does best. Showing off our backyard.

Wendy and Gordy with a beautiful Brown. 

Shane with a nice Rainbow that put up a great fight, we would name this pool the Trifecta Pool after Shane, Wendy and Craig would land a fish each within an hour of fishing.

The Trifecta Pool.

Wendy with a nice brown from the Trifecta Pool.

Shane and Craig with another nice Rainbow from the Trifecta Pool.

Wendy’s, Hardy “Princess” about to be put to work, these are classic reels. I think this one is about 40 years old and still going strong!!

Gordy selecting one of Craigs “Scruffy” nymphs that worked a treat!! Can you see the fish up ahead between Gordy and Craig?

Rod and Rifle at the ready with the chance of seeing Deer on the river side. No such luck, anyway there were plenty of fish to keep us busy.

Craig done the job with the Sage/Prince/Scruffy/Gordy combination. Another nice brown to the net.

As a Professional Guide, not only do you need our eyes and skills to get hooked up, but more importantly safety on the water is paramount!! Learning to read water and cross in the right places and correctly is why you need us on your side.

Snow covered mountains, beech forest to the waters edge, and crystal clear water. Dream-waters at it’s best. Wendy, Craig and Shane living the dream.

Lord of the Rings country, like i said this place is well worth more then a thousand words, much more!!

Put yourself in this picture!! Shane and Gordy hooked up on one of the most beautiful rivers in the world.

Some great guiding and fishing skills got this rainbow to the net, with smiles all round.

2 days spent on some dream-water in what we call our back yard and you get an experience that makes you smile as if it was yesterday that we were standing in gin clear water, watching wild trout feeding as if nothing else mattered. The privilage of seeing a rare blue duck (whio) and listening to it’s unique call, while listening to the sound of waterfalls and running water…. I think you get the picture….

If you want to see some of this country and cast at some wild Rainbow and Brown Trout and have an experience of a life time then best you get in touch with us.

Shane, Craig and Wendy are already thinking about the next mission, and Gordy and i know exactly where we will be going… somewhere in what we call our back yard. 

This pool held 4 great fish!! Anyone want to go??

Waking up to this from our camp…. priceless….

The camp pool, holding nice bows.

Craig with a nice bow, photo and release.

We even caught some Rainbow Trout on the way. Now that is a day that is hard to forget!!

If you ever talk to Anthony and Angela Hamilton or Leon and Fiona Christianakis  or Bruce and I then we will tell you how it was…..

The setting is picture perfect and a great base to explore the amazing sights that are available within minutes drive and flight from the Lodge.

Pictures paint a thousand words they say, i reckon they paint ten thousand plus words..