your guide Boris Cech

Boris has been in operation as a professional fishing guide since 1990. He enjoys the privilege of many returning clients, some of whom have returned every year to fish the South Island of New Zealand with him.

Boris is a member of the New Zealand Professional Fishing Guides Association and maintains a current First Aid Certificate with the Order of St John.

Boris has had the pleasure of guiding Liam Neeson who was in New Zealand with the American sports channel ESPN. Boris and Liam were involved in producing the series "Fly Fishing The World" in 2001.

Boris acted as guide in the production of "A River Somewhere: Episode 3 - D'Urville New Zealand - a production of Working Dog Pty Ltd Australia.

In 2002 Boris featured in the Australian Great Outdoors Channel 7 series with Andrew Daddo. A journey through New Zealand's northern South Island where Boris was Andrew's fishing guide in the Nelson Lakes region.

testimonials

Boris, I know I make you work hard for my fish but I don’t think anyone could bring me more success. Rest assured I will be back.

Simon Drury (UK)

Thank you for a great week. Ingrid and I had such a good time and are already thinking about next year.

Geoff McAdam (Australia)

This is a short note to thank you for a really good time fishing before Christmas.  I really appreciated all your efforts - look forward to fishing with you again soon.

Piers Blewitt (UK)

Boris, thanks for a great few days fishing

Paul Bardon (Australia)

Just to thank you for a great few days hiking, fishing, swimming, having fun - thanks for a great few days. Look forward to doing it again.

Tom Stevenson (USA)

testimonials

Boris,  I haven't had much of a chance to communicate because it had been so busy but I want you to know what a wonderful time I had while fishing with you and the Taylors.  It is an experience that I want to repeat someday, hopefully next year.

Bernie Dormer (USA)

Boris, we very much appreciated your expertise. Harry and I agreed that you were enormously energetic and hard-working; enthusiastic; knowledgeable; and above all you demonstrated an uncanny, almost miraculous ability to spot fish for us and help us catch them.

Rob Southey (Australia)

Boris - just wanted to drop you a line and say thanks again for an unbelievable fishing experience a few weeks ago. It was certainly worth the trip over from the US. A totally different type of fishing. Awesome.

Jim Hurckes (USA)

kehu

Admiration of a little known Maori guide Kehu was the inspiration behind naming Kehu Guiding

Kehu was of the Ngatitumatakokiri tribe - at one time the most powerful tribe in the northern South Island.However when Te Rauparaha armed with guns and his quest for supremecy, attacked the South Island, settlements were massacred and the Ngatitumatakokiri people were virtually wiped out.

Kehu was one of few survivors. He was later able to share with early European explorers his knowledge of local forest lore and a traditional route through Manga Towai (Tophouse) to Lakes Rotoroa and Rotoiti and on to the West Coast.

In 1844 Charles Heaphy a young artist/surveyor was sent to New Zealand to explore the southwest.In 1846 Heaphy,William Fox,Thomas Brunner and Kehu left on what is perhaps the central and classic trip of those early westward expeditions.Beyond Rotoiti, the party turned up the Howard River, following a route known to Kehu to Lake Rotoroa.

Here Heaphy marveled over Kehu's incredible bush skills:

"He appears to have an instinctive sense, beyond our comprehension, which enables him to find his way through the forest when neither sun nor distant object is visible, amidst gullies, brakes, and ravines in confused disorder, still onward he goes . . . a good shot, one who takes care never to miss a bird, a capital manager of a canoe, a sure snarer of wild-fowl, and a superb fellow at a ford, is that same E Kehu; and he is worth his weight in tobacco."