ALL BACK ISSUES OF THE MISSION FLY MAG NOW AVAILABLE IN PRINT – WE SHIP WORLDWIDE.
ALL BACK ISSUES OF THE MISSION FLY MAG NOW AVAILABLE IN PRINT – WE SHIP WORLDWIDE.
FEATHERS & FLUORO
THE DESERT PRISONER
Think you’ve gone long periods without fishing before? In 2011, a few weeks into a six-month motorbike ride through Africa, from London back home to Johannesburg, Steve McGown was abducted by Al Qaeda in Northern [...]
FISHING WITHOUT HONOUR
Written by Sean Christie. Illustrations by Conrad Botes. As featured in The Mission Issue 05. Mrs Daniels’ English class, standard 7, set two: the one time in my life I plagiarised another writer. It was [...]
HIGH 5S – BRENDAN BECKER
From exotic bucket list locations like Providence to home-based heaven like Lake Jozini and Sterkfontein Dam, Flycastaway guide Brendan Becker leads a pretty shweet life. We caught up with him for this issue’s High 5s. [...]
A SOUTH AFRICAN LINE CARE SOLUTION
If ever there was a time to celebrate and support local fly fishing products and manufacturers, it's now while our economy is struggling more than ever. One brand that not thaaaat many people know is [...]
THE MISSION IN THE MEDIA
Fly fishing is having a bit of a moment at the moment and that is perhaps one of the few silver linings we can take from 2020. With more and more people spending time either [...]
VIDEO – RIDERS ON THE STORM
Fly fishing and off-road motorcycles seem like the perfect fit so for issue 24 we teamed up with BMW Motorrad for a mission into the Tankwa Karoo. It involved two riders on the GS Urban [...]
WHEN THE RIVER RUNS DRY – VIDEO – FLY FISHING FOR CARP
The Berg River in Paarl is a special place for me and many of us at Feathers and Fluoro. I have fished the river's headwaters for trout and, a bit lower down, for smallmouth bass. [...]
SKY HIGH
There’s been quite a hullabaloo about Douglas Outdoors’ new Sky G rod, so we asked local South African agents Wading Waters (wadingwaters.com) for one to test. We paired it with Herman Botes, one of the [...]
