Wairarapa · Wellington · Backcountry
Find your kind of water.
A day on a local river or a flight into the backcountry. Ben builds each trip around the conditions, your experience and what you want from the day.
Wairarapa river days
Trade the city for clear water and open country, with fishing about an hour outside Wellington. Explore runs, pools and river margins with a local guide who knows how the water changes.
For visiting anglers, a first guided day, or a return to favourite water.
Private-water access
Ben’s personal connections with local farmers make it possible to reach water through private land. These relationships open quieter stretches and create fishing opportunities that are difficult to arrange independently.
Access depends on landowner permission and river conditions.
Helicopter backcountry
Fly into blue-ribbon New Zealand streams and remote rivers that hardly ever see anglers. The flight is part of the experience; the reward is time on exceptional water far from the road.
Arranged individually, subject to weather, flight availability and river conditions.
Learn together
New to fly fishing, bringing a young angler, or working on your next skill? Make room for casting, reading water and learning how to approach fish, at a pace suited to the people on the trip.
Tell Ben about the ages and experience in your group when enquiring.
Let’s plan the day.
Share your dates, group size, fishing experience and the kind of water you have in mind. Ben can advise on the best fit and confirm availability, pricing, meeting arrangements and what to bring.
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