Conrad Botes, Author at The Mission Fly Fishing Magazine

conradbotes 29 March 2014 2

Sweet Friday

With the day looking a pearler, I decided to head out to my favourite little estuary yesterday and target dusky kob in the surf at

conradbotes 24 February 2014 2

Last Friday Jannie Visser decided to put a new spin on an old spot. We’ve been contemplating targeting predators on the flats that we usually

conradbotes 28 January 2014 10

I’ve had a few requests on how to tie the Sponge Bob, so here goes. Sliders have been around for a while and the Sponge

conradbotes 14 January 2014 4

Two days after receiving the recapture info on a kob I caught, Stuart Dunlop of the ORI sent me new recapturing information. A spotted grunter

conradbotes 10 January 2014 8

I have been tagging fish for ORI (the Oceanic Research Institute of South Africa) since 2008. During this time I had one of my tagged

conradbotes 23 December 2013

Although I use 9ft 10wt rods for most of the fishing (surf zone and estuaries) I recently started using a 9/10wt 11ft Beulah switch rod,

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Catching an adult kob (they reach maturity at about 100cm) in the surf has been on my bucket list for some time now. Not an