Fly fishing - South Island - New Zealand

A warm welcome to Tom McAuliffe Guided Fly Fishing. Located in the heart of the worlds best trout fishing. Operated predominantly out of Dunedin, but servicing the wider southern South Island regions, on a wide range of stunning waterways. Tight lines for your fly fishing adventure.

Craig with his football shaped 5.5lb fish, great fight!

7.5lbs of golden fish, common from this river

Perfection right here..

A perfect sunset after a days fishing

Dave with a backcountry brown, well done!

Dry flies, and low summer flows on my local river

Small water, big fish. This one hit the scales just under 8lb

landscape surrounding a world - renouned fishery

It all happened late in the day on dry flies

Sight fishing all day on 'the local'

A stunning lake brownie, as good as any river fish!

Fishing a stream mouth of our Central lakes

Willow grubbing fishing in a small southland stream

Central Otago backcountry

About to release a summer time trout

A deep run on a special river

Heavy, healthy, and strong!

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This fish took a large stonefly in gin - clear water

More action on the willow grubs for Petsie

Emmet hooked up in a wonderfull valley

yours truely getting out on a 'day off'

Golden Otago brown trout

Fun morning in shallow water fishing damselflys

They are not all big, but nearly always beautiful

9.25lb of wilderness perfection

A big walk to get here! last pool of the day

Spring creek that flows into a backcountry river

A peacefull valley, one of Otagos finest

A heavy fish in the net, relief !

Horses ready for work on a backcountry farm

Mark with a solid 5lb brown on a rainy day

Fantastic memories here

A backwater sighted brown, fooled by a small nymph

A special river for me..

Old wall build by the chinese gold miners in Otago, a piece of history here!

This run often holds a fish or two..

Lambs in spring! a common sight in NZ

Another dry fly fish from a top day early in the season

Almost at the top of the river here, and the place to ourselves

A happy family on a backcountry lake

Let me share this anglers elderado with you

Chasing autumn rainbows on their annual run upstream

First fish of the day, and a beauty !

4 fish in the same pool, we got them all !

The final fish before home time

Emmet, Petsie, and I at the end of the day, happy lads!

Heavy rain sent us to the still waters, we were not disappointed

Lord of the rings country, South Island NZ

A sea trout from a coastal stream, perfection!

I can not wait to share experiences like this with you

A wilderness backcountry gorge, fitness is important here!

Happy anglers about to stalk in on a pool full of brownies

dry fly heaven, this fish couldn’t resist a parachute adams

A healthy rainbow from fast water

A dry fly sipping brown fell to a classic DHE emerger

What its all about..

Tina, First time learning to cast! In the rain..

A pristine location to fly fish, New Zealand.

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Craig with his football shaped 5.5lb fish, great fight!

7.5lbs of golden fish, common from this river

Perfection right here..

A perfect sunset after a days fishing

Dave with a backcountry brown, well done!

Dry flies, and low summer flows on my local river

Small water, big fish. This one hit the scales just under 8lb

landscape surrounding a world - renouned fishery

It all happened late in the day on dry flies

Sight fishing all day on 'the local'

A stunning lake brownie, as good as any river fish!

Fishing a stream mouth of our Central lakes

perfection...

Willow grubbing fishing in a small southland stream

Central Otago backcountry

About to release a summer time trout

A deep run on a special river

Heavy, healthy, and strong!

6 (1 of 1) (2).jpg

Paradice...

This fish took a large stonefly in gin - clear water

More action on the willow grubs for Petsie

Emmet hooked up in a wonderfull valley

yours truely getting out on a 'day off'

Golden Otago brown trout

Fun morning in shallow water fishing damselflys

They are not all big, but nearly always beautiful

A big walk to get here! last pool of the day

Spring creek that flows into a backcountry river

A peacefull valley, one of Otagos finest

A heavy fish in the net, relief !

Horses ready for work on a backcountry farm

Mark with a solid 5lb brown on a rainy day

Fantastic memories here

A backwater sighted brown, fooled by a small nymph

A special river for me..

Old wall build by the chinese gold miners in Otago, a piece of history here!

This run often holds a fish or two..

Lambs in spring! a common sight in NZ

Another dry fly fish from a top day early in the season

Almost at the top of the river here, and the place to ourselves

A happy family on a backcountry lake

Let me share this anglers elderado with you

Chasing autumn rainbows on their annual run upstream

First fish of the day, and a beauty !

4 fish in the same pool, we got them all !

The final fish before home time

Emmet, Petsie, and I at the end of the day, happy lads!

Heavy rain sent us to the still waters, we were not disappointed

Lord of the rings country, South Island NZ

A sea trout from a coastal stream, perfection!

I can not wait to share experiences like this with you

A wilderness backcountry gorge, fitness is important here!

Happy anglers about to stalk in on a pool full of brownies

dry fly heaven, this fish couldn’t resist a parachute adams

A dry fly sipping brown fell to a classic DHE emerger

What its all about..

Tina, First time learning to cast! In the rain..

A pristine location to fly fish, New Zealand.

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