Where to fish, what to tie on, when to be there.
The directory tells you who fishes your water. Advice is the next step: a guide who works it puts your trip together, for your dates.
Opening region by region across Australia and New Zealand.
Fishing is hard enough.
You don't have to work it out on your own.
Flows drop, hatches turn, fish move. The only people who know what's happening right now are the ones on the water every week.
New river, new species, new season — each one asks for its own approach. The locals spent decades learning theirs.
Fishing new places means the right method for that place, and a head start from someone who already has it.
When you want a plan for your own trip.
Three steps, and you never have to describe your trip twice.
Tell us the water and the dates
One river, lake or stretch of coast, and the days you’ll be on it. Say what you fish and what you’d rather not.
A local guide plans it
Marked water and access, rigs and flies, and a shape for each day. Written for your dates, delivered before you travel.
Ask follow-ups for seven days
Conditions shift. Send a photo of the water, your rig or a fish you can’t place, and get it answered.
Two ways to get advice
Pick what fits the trip, or mix them.
Trip Plan
A guide plans your trip — your water, your dates, written for you.
- Where to fish, what to tie on, when to be there — written down
- Marked water and access for the days you're on it
- Rigs, flies and timing for the conditions that week
- Follow-up questions for seven days after it lands
- From AUD $60 · one water, your dates
Live video call
A focused 1:1 session — plan a trip, fix your rig, read a map together.
- 30 or 60 minutes, you set the agenda
- Evening and off-day slots, because guides fish for a living
- Tell the guide your water and target before the call
- Walk away with a concrete plan
- From AUD $120 (30 min) · $200 (60 min)
Prices are current and subject to change.
Why Reachwater
Built for the way fishing advice actually works.
A named local guide
Advice comes from a guide who fishes that water, named on the page. You can read their listing before you buy.
Local, current, specific
AU/NZ guides who know your water this week — flows, tides, temps, what's being caught and where.
Cheaper than a wasted trip
A call costs a fraction of a guided day, and far less than driving four hours to fish the wrong spot.
All abilities, all species
Total beginner or chasing a fish of a lifetime, there is a guide pitched at exactly your level.
What you are paying for.
A person’s judgement about your water on your dates. Not a forecast feed, and not a trip.
It comes from a named guide
Every plan carries a guide who works that water. They decide what goes in it and check it line by line before it reaches you. If they haven’t fished your stretch on your dates, they don’t take the job.
It is not a booking
No trip is included and no day is reserved. If you want the guide on the water with you, their own contact details are on their listing, and we take no commission on that.
Nobody promises fish
Fishing does not work that way, and a guide who says otherwise is selling you something else. What you get is the best read available on where to be and what to do.
Questions anglers ask
Straight answers, before you give us an email.
What if no guide covers my water yet?
Then we can’t sell you a plan for it, and we’ll say so rather than hand you a generic one. Advice opens region by region as guides come on. Tell us the water on the waitlist and we’ll email you when someone covers it.
When will I get my plan?
We agree a delivery date with you up front, and we don’t take the job unless a guide can meet it. Guides fish for a living and are often out of reception, so we’d rather commit to a date we know than quote a turnaround we can’t hold to.
Plan or call — which do I want?
A plan if you are travelling to unfamiliar water and want something to work from on the day. A call if you have a specific problem: a rig that isn’t working, a map you can’t read, a fish you keep missing.
Can I send photos?
Yes, and it is usually the fastest way to get a straight answer. A photo of the water, your leader or a fish you can’t identify tells a guide more in a second than a paragraph does.
What does the guide get?
The guide sets what they earn and keeps all of it. We add a flat $20 on top, the same on every sale whatever it costs, and the price you see includes it, so there is nothing added at checkout. We take no commission on their guided trips.
Register for your water.
Advice opens region by region, and the regions anglers ask for are the ones that open next.
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