RATATAT
Sploosh. Another huge rat jumped off the shore into the river. Their swimming prowess underwater is unreal. The speed, agility and comfort in water
Gerald Penkler
PROSPECTING FOR GOLD AND HAM
A golden olive back porpoised in the wind rippled surface. Then another, and another. The surface was alive with barbel tucking into dinner. We had
THE PUNISHMENT
“You won’t land that fish“, said Piet. A sense of finality from the first glimpse of the huge shape passing under his canoe. The most
LOW KEY FLY PHOTOGRAPHY
Illuminated subjects, dreamy shadows, texture and pitch-black background looks cool. Low key photography is a genre of photography that caught my interest. What would flies look like shot this way?
SHARP SHINY SCISSORS
Snip, snip. Hack, hack. A fluffy spray of fibres and thread peering out over the hook eye. Familiar? How easy is it to sharpen fly
SILICONE FLANK JIG
A wide ‘side-on’ profile provides a big silhouette of a struggling baitfish. Easy pickings for a pike or ambush predator. Yet, getting a wide profile
DIY POWER LINE WINDER
Manually spooling 300m of backing off and back onto a fly reel after every saltwater trip is painful. But essential to prevent corrosion. A fence
FLIES ON FIRE – DIY FLUFF INCINERATOR
Flames erupted. Fur, plastic and flash morphed and blackened. Smoke everywhere. It stank -the whole house. But the DIY fluff incinerator worked. Next time I
DUTCH PIKING AT CHRISTMAS
A large wake rippled after each slow strip. The fly settled into the mud. Calf deep. The pike approached, fins flared. Fanning. A twitch and
YUCATAN – TO FISH OR NOT TO FISH?
The Yucatan offers so much with its endless shores, ancient cities, deep forests, crystal waters, echoing caves, hidden lagoons and friendly people . After the
