Conrad Botes 
For the rest of this post series see: https://themissionblog.com/category/places/africa/gabon/gabon-2016/ // My obsession with Gabon started in 2010. I have just returned from two weeks fishing
Fly fishing for kob and grunter: During early March I had the good fortune to spend some time and fish my favourite spot away from
This is a kob that I won’t forget in a hurry. I was doing a sunset session with my crew last year when I got
Cold, windy and inconsistent, Western Cape saltwater fly fishing is neither for the flakey nor the faint of heart. Within it, there are sub-divisions of
Conrad Botes battles chaos, fatigue and demons in his return to Gabon on a quest for the Silver King – tarpon. As featured in The
The second best thing about fly-fishing off a float tube in False Bay is the looks you get when you gear up in the parking lot. Pull out your Ark inflatable or SUP and no-one will bat an eyelid. Take out a float tube and people will stop and stare. Like you’re mad or something. Truth be told, it’s a very convenient and effective craft to fly-fish from.
Jannie Visser and I had some great fishing for silver kob on the False Bay reefs some time ago (post coming up). We found that
Gabon, I just can’t help myself from returning to this place time and time again to chase tarpon off the beaches. Sure, the snapper, threadies
Meet the Humpback bream, the big-mouthed, baitfish-smashing Quasimodo lurker of the Southern African floodplains. In Issue 12 of The Mission, Leonard Flemming weighs in on
By Tudor Caradoc-Davies LEFTY KREH, the man behind the Deceiver, the man who revolutionised casting, the man who went everywhere and caught everything with everyone.