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.

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..

Some of the people we have been showing around..

And some of the fish we have been meeting..

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.

That was Valentines Day 2009, a day to remember for sure!! Take a look at the photos and see for yourself, every day is a valentines day we reckon………….

Dream-waters

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..