FEATHERS & FLUORO
HOME ON THE RANGE
TROUT! BEER! BEARS ! A LIKE-MINDED TRIBE! Tudor Caradoc-Davies visits Montana and finds a home away from home. "The full title of Sacha Baron-Cohen’s 2006 Borat movie is Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make [...]
7-YEAR-ITCH
A story of two smallmouths and water under the bridge by LeRoy Botha in issue 19 of The Mission "14 November 2012. It’s incredibly hot and the wind is shunting. I’ve come prepared for a [...]
A RIPPLE OF EXCITEMENT
Tired of flies falling around in your foam fly box? I definitely was (especially after losing plenty flies carrying cheap polystyrene boxes in my pocket) until I got handed the Ripplebox. Sceptic as always about [...]
THE SUCK
Renowned sado-masochist, James Topham, in Issue 19's Undercurrents, on the best of the worst times in a guide’s life. "While the soaking salt water spray from the bow of the skiff is the bane [...]
HERMIT HERNANDEZ – THE SBS
I didn't know how this name popped into my head and decided to give it a google, pre post. Turns out there was an American Footballer with that last name who became a murderer and [...]
THE TAILGATE CONFESSIONS #1: LOST (AND FOUND)
“Which species did you catch on it? Tigers, leeries…?” Came the message from Tudor. Like any editor worth his red pen, he was nit picking at my review of the Horizon 990-4 TSS for an [...]
BLISS POINTS
In the making of food products, scientists have developed the ‘bliss point,’ which is the perfect amount required of an ingredient like salt, sugar and fat to optimise a product’s deliciousness (and make you fat). [...]
MISSING THE PERFECT SHOT
It was a camp Ray had never heard of, and both of us were worried about one massive, scary thing; humans. This wasn’t a typical fly fishing lodge like those catering to the Australian and [...]
