Fly Fishing Vacation in New Zealand
Written by Vacation Idea.com Travel Editors.
A fly fishing vacation, a luxury resort, and scenery that will take your breath away.
For the fly-fishing vacation of your dreams head down to New Zealand and stay at Blanket Bay. Located just 35 minutes from Queenstown on the southern end of New Zealand, Blanket Bay is surrounded by some of the best fly fishing lakes and streams in New Zealand.
Due to its great location, Blanket bay offers those looking for a fly fishing vacation options from large rivers and slow moving pools to fast runs, small mountain lakes and open river floats. The fishing season on the rivers runs from November through May. Brown and rainbow trout average more than three pounds and five to six pound trout are not uncommon.
Anglers should note that the fishing in New Zealand is qaulity over quantity. A good days fishing may bring in four or five fish but they could average over 5 pounds.
Blanket Bay will provide experienced guides to show you the ropes of New Zealand fly fishing. You can choose to fly fish in the nearby rivers and stream that enter into Lake Wakatipu or you can plan some helicopter fishing trips. With the helicopter trips you can travel to stretches of river and streams not fished by anyone else for the entire season. The rainbow and brown trout fishing is excellent.
As with any vacation travel time is obvious consideration. Keep in mind that it will take you over seventeen hours to reach Queenstown from Los Angeles and around twentyfive hours from New York City. However, Blanket Bay is really worth the trip.
For more about vacationing at Blanket Bay read our resort review page.
