Guided Fly Fishing in and around Wanaka.Paul guides extensively through out the the Central Otago, Southland and Mckenzie regions.
Specialising in multi-day fly fishing adventures that get you into the best fishing the lower South Island has to offer ! Paul Macandrew is a Wanaka based fly fishing guide, who offers guided sight fishing for wild brown and rainbow trout in some of the most pristine rivers, streams and still waters found in New Zealand. Paul will customise your fly fishing adventure to suit your experience, from
12/09/2026
A change of pace from swinging flies.
A relaxing day walking the edges looking for cruising fish with a mate.
Lower numbers seen than we were expecting, but fish landed were in good nick.
Thanks for the photos Dan !
22/08/2026
Fat wee hen on the Simi Seal Firecracker leech.
16/08/2026
A solid rainbow from the local on the last swing of the morning.
09/08/2026
Brownie on the swing.
05/08/2026
Top up of some new colors to try out.
30/07/2026
Freshie from a favorite run on the Mata-Au
Thanks for the photo Scott Bixby !
25/07/2026
Quick hour on the local earlier today.
Temperatures have dropped significantly after last nights snow fall on the surrounding hills!
19/07/2026
The first access was dead so I relocated to a section of river I hadn’t fished so far this winter.
The Mata-Au is still pumping so I reached for the Epic 4/11 and fished light sink tips and flies, really focusing on the softer water and inside shallow edges. Again this set up came up trumps with 8 wee feisty browns in the 2-3lb hitting the net over a stretch of water no more than 200m long !
16/07/2026
The “tug” is definitely the drug !
12/07/2026
My usual set up for swinging flies is a 7wt- 13ft Epic Spey rod with a 420gr Skagit and T7-T10 sink tip depending on the flow. Today I opted to use an Epic 4wt-11ft , 300gr Scandi fly line and Airflo intermediate poly leader to swing small-lightly weighted streamers over the shallow gravel bars and into the soft edges. The Skagit set up is great for the faster, deeper runs but not so in the slower,shallower stuff where many fish are now holding due to the higher flows on the Clutha.The 4wt rod and Scandi fly line set up allowed me too work the softer water and cover sections of the river that I’d normally avoid as my heavier flies foul up on the bottom.