The New Zealand Flyfishing Company

Summer in New Zealand has come and gone and almost like clockwork on the 1st of March temperatures overnight seemed to drop a few degrees. It’s that awesome time of the year again where there are great fly fishing options everywhere around the Taupo...

The central North Island backcountry fly fishing season has started with a hiss and a roar. There is nothing more satisfying than taking a novice angler like our client above and getting them casting to and landing stunning wild trout – this is the...

Following on from the unusual weather last year we’ve had more strange weather this past couple of months.  NIWA our National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research talked about El Nino weather patterns and predicted at the start of May that “r...

Well it’s been the crappiest summer we’ve had here in Taupo in over a decade. It has been frustrating because the last couple of summers were great with some exceptional fishing but due to closed borders we couldn’t share it with friends and clients...

Everyone around Taupo and Turangi is waiting for the fishing to go off but May has been a fairly dry settled month in the Taupo region and the lake is incredibly low. We keep watching for rain but we’ve have no big storm yet to get the rivers up and...