Stu's Fly Shop

The home of Stu's Superior Flies. Too delicious for fish to resist. Been fly-fishing for years, but getting too many tangles? Or just want to get better?

Fly Fishing , fly casting, fly tying and fly design is the driving force behind my visions and goals in life. From the age of 9 years I was attending and winning fishing competitions and learned many of my skills from my grandfather who was a local champion angler. The world of fly fishing and the whole community that surrounds it, is a fascinating one and includes some of the nicest most passio

nate people in the world. I'm always striving to offer the best service, fly fishing equipment and pass on my extensive knowledge to my clients and students. In 2007 I traveled to the USA , sat and passed the world biggest fly casting teaching test, became one of under a hundred people in the world to pass my IFFF Master casting instructor test and become the first Master casting instructor in Australasia. For many years I have established and own NZ fly fishing school Ltd and also teach private casting lessons for beginners and advanced.Mataura river and the Oreti river system . People come from all over the world to visit or be taught the art of fly casting and fishing from Stu and have fun doing so and try and catch the NZ brown trout and Rainbow trout. There are plenty of NZ fishing lodges near by for accommodation and also other activities ,like the round the mountain cycle trail.Tourists and locals frequently the shop or online to buy Stu’s special unique NZ fishing flies from my small boutique New Zealand fly company called Stu’s Superior Flies Ltd. The Fly shop is also filled with fly fishing rods , fly reels, fly fishing lines,tippet and leaders from brands such as Sage, Scott, Lamson , Airflow and Rio . It is a dynamic NZ fly shop and is known through out the world as the the Home of fly fishing in NZ. Have a look round the web site, check out the fly designs, the guiding and NZ Fly Fishing School packages and be entertained with the photos in the fishing gallery and the amazing fly fishing film clips and feel the passion. Thank you for visiting, Cheers
Visit one of 30 lakes and rivers, all within an hour’s drive of the shop. We can arrange:

- Backcountry Fly Fishing Road Trips, where you stay in an historic cottage or camp out.

- Helicopter Guiding and water taxis for an unforgettable experience

- One or multiple-day NZ Fly Fishing Schools: learn the basics about equipment, trout and their feeding habits, trout entomology (food), trout flies, tackle, equipment, leaders and their construction, basic knots and casting. Learn how to double haul for distance, reach cast and wiggle cast. Get ahead of the game with some professional advice from Stu! We have a range of multi-day guiding packages, road trips and camping out options, which can depart from Queenstown. Visit our website www.stusflyshop.com for more details

12/06/2026

A book , we ordered and have been waiting on finally arrived - a great easy, inspiring read - from the creative man himself , Jesse Lance Robins 👍🐶

09/06/2026

A place you should go and spend time walking in the jungle with Tigers and other wildlife- a fab country and small village on the edge of a pretty much unvisited national park.

05/06/2026

Laugh - switch up the volume - These things should be banned - as thety are harmful to Dog mentally🐶- Trigger - ball - hilarious- stuff from the field - honestly they are a cruel piece of kit - Trigger reckons - ALL should be banned from all gardens 🙈🐶🤣.

04/06/2026

Thinking of you all , thank you , gotta have fun xx

03/06/2026

Every hole no matter how small or deep , she drops her ball into or a stick of if I hide her ball , clever little s**t 💩 🐶🤣🙈

29/05/2026

From a gold medal decades ago for fly fishing - fly design , to chasing a gold medal for a unique sexy rustic round about thingy , we have called - The Nibbled Nut 🌰 - all thanks to squirrels in Scotland - a true story ! , who would have thought where the creative live journey in life can take us all , thanks for the support, what’s next for our fruity founder 🐶🙈, watch this space !

26/05/2026

Amazing haunted 🤣house for sale - in the posh end of the village 🙈🤣- your chance to live a life of views, bird life , low maintenance - no grass to cut , sun sets and sun rises , sun all day winter and summer - unlike most other properties!? 👍 trout rise a short cast away , falcons in your garden , bird song every second of the day - right on the banks of NZ ‘ s best brown trout river , all spooky s**t ! , huge native garden , 12 years of planting and love, the land alone if worth a small fortune, so it’s a bargain for the right person or alien .

23/05/2026

Sunday smiles to you all - enjoy it , we did 😊😊🐶🐶 you can’t get good help these days 🤣

21/05/2026

Part to of how the Nibble nut 🌰, sexy roundabout came to be .

20/05/2026

Part 1 - of what I’ve just completed before winter - of my biggest art installation for a client - Everyday , stepping into the unknown was kinda scary people don’t realise that - but doing something everyday as that say that scares you , keeps one alive 🙈🤣🐶, would my mental vision work ? Which was a year in the making. That of a squirrel nibbled hazelnut arty roundabout and my client who trusted me be happy , nothing just happens there’s always a story.

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Website

http://stusflyshop.com/

Address

27 Avon Street
Athol
9793