Wakatipu Anglers Club NZ

It’s not what you know, it’s brew you know… 🍻

We’re lucky to have a real diversity of backgrounds and professions in the club, meaning we can rely on our differences to bring us closer together 👊

It just so happens that Ash has two very useful skills: fishing and brewing 🤣

We’re excited to be heading down to for a WAC pop-up merchandise sale and swap-shop next week. Oh, and maybe to try the new Wooly Bu**er drop?

Cheers in advance!

We had a great time on the weekend celebrating the club’s annual Piscatorial Pot 🎣 🏆

Most fish over 350mm wins - and this year it was tied!

🏆 Congrats to & .lee_1 for taking the trophy this year. A great night was had all round 🔥

Thanks and team for an awesome feast to cap off an epic day. What a treat 🤙🏻

A record number of new members out with us for our latest club trip to Gore this weekend. Cheers to all involved! 💪🏻

☁️ Winds on Saturday and overcast conditions making visibility tough on Sunday - sighting and casting to fish was a challenge. 💨

That said, WAC anglers dug deep and got the job done 😤

Thanks Jason for the tasty smoked fish and wine, mate! 🍷 🤙🏻

Last night we got together to celebrate the 13 years of passion and commitment Colin has dedicated to Queenstown, the club and the lifestyle we call home.

We’re immensely grateful for your service as secretary to the club and for all the good times along the way. Good luck back in Christchurch, friend.

See you on our waters again soon 🤙🏻✌🏻

🐁🌌🎣🏆

Patience, sun down, darkness.
Attention, listening, mapping.
Line tied, on the bank, not the time for napping.
Reaction, back, forth, swing, lay,
Scuttles, twitches, starts to play.

Strike from the surface. You’re on. Gold.

A weekend in Fiordland with a Czech 🇨🇿, Uruguayan 🇺🇾 , South African 🇿🇦 and an Irishman 🇮🇪 🎣🍺🔥

There’s a punchline there somewhere….

Been an awesome start to the year for the club and some absolute beauties borrowed from the water 👌🏻

📸 Thanks for the pics

🎄Is Santa practicing catch and release with his gifts this year?
🎄Are WAC members going to exceed their mulled wine bag limit?
🎄Have the elves already finished their orders at the fly tying workshop in the North Pole?

🌟 Sometimes, you just have to wait and see 👀

We’ve had a blast this year! So many fresh faces in 2025 have continued to drive this club and we’re immensely grateful for all that we’ve achieved!

Here’s just a few snaps from the last week or two. For now, this is us signing out for Christmas - Have a wonderful time, from WAC! 🫡 🎣

Beauties in Mackenzie country 🤌🏻 🎣

The season is coming thick and fast - it feels like we’ve blinked and now it’s almost Christmas…

We capped off our second club outing of the season last week to the Mackenzie Country doing what we do best: drinking, eating and fishing.

As you’d expect, high winds and clearing waters prompted some creativity but club members got the job done and we all walked away with something to show for it.

Tasty food, beautiful fish and barrels of laughs. Cheers! 🍻