FEATHERS & FLUORO
DUMPSTER DIVING
Consider the humble bonito. Prolific-breeding, fast-growing. Beautiful. So iridescently easy-on-the-eyes in fact, that the Spanish and Portuguese ‘bonito’ translates to 'pretty'. (Although there is some disagreement that this is the true origin of its name). [...]
THE HABERDASHERY MASSIVE – WHIPPET WEDNESDAY COLLECTIVE
IMAGES BY DOUGAL PATERSON About 5 years ago, Warwick and I spent pretty much every Wednesday night around his fire pit in his backyard. Our mutual love for kakpraat, overly large fires, beer and other [...]
SO, YOU WANNA SUP?
Seeing as a SUP has unfortunately become my primary method of floatation for fishing lately, I thought that I would put together a short essentials list to help you out as you go through the [...]
MUNCHIES
SOUT RIBBETJIES WITH SALSA VERDE (aka groen sous you larnie) Like après-ski, après-fish is serious business. Chef Kyle Knight of The Shop in Seapoint, Cape Town, weighs in on his go-to munchies after a day on [...]
IRAN FISH SPECIES
We might have travelled to Iran for shots at big mangar (king barbus) with fly (read the full story of that trip in issue 10 of The Mission), but my fascination resided primarily in the [...]
CHASING NATIVES
In 2017 we ran a competition with Swift Fly Fishing, where a lucky reader won a one-of-a-kind Epic 476 Packlight fiberglass rod. As luck would have it, the guy who won it was Cameron Cushman, [...]
THE MINI BASS SMASHER
From the Furburger, to the Rich Chicken, the Poor Chicken (shem), the Articulated Scratch N Sniff, the Meat Magnet and many more, I’ve been stalking Meat Market Flies for a while now on Instagram. So, [...]
THE HERO
Time, distance and gridlocked traffic were never going to stop Peter Coetzee from interviewing Kenyan Jeremy Block, when the opportunity arose. The first person to catch a broadbill swordfish on fly (as well as a [...]
