THE APPRENTICE
Not since Neil Strauss in The Game or pretty much everyone in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert has a man peacocked so
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TOM’S VICE
“Well, it’s all a bit much”, I thought, and purposefully stiffened the pour on what felt unlikely to be the sole whisky of the evening.
BIKEPACKING AND FLY FISHING 101
Taking your life with you on a bike means minimising your setup to the bare essentials, and if you’re making films and fly fishing like
RECURRING DREAM
Some places change you forever, because what you experienced there is so transformative your memory plays the highlights on an infinite loop calling you back
GALAXIAS ON THE CAPE FLATS: A NICE LITTLE PUZZLE
Professor Jenny Day, director of the Freshwater Research Centre, shares interesting developments on Cape galaxias. Photos: Jeremy Shelton There are real live fish in Van
ON A DIME
On a trip to dry fly heaven (Lesotho’s Bokong River), The Mission art director Brendan “Bod” Body put the Thomas & Thomas Paradigm 8’4” 4-weight
PERMIT PINNACLE – LEEWARD ISLANDS FLATS
Eugene Potgieter of Uncharted Fishing Company explores Atlantic permit in the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean. I had visited this location in the past and
THE SEASONAL YELLOWFISH OF BARKLY EAST/RHODES
All about Barkly East/Rhodes yellowfish, by J.W. Grobler The Barkly East/Rhodes district is widely revered for being one of South Africa’s foremost trout-fishing meccas. Surprisingly,
THE ISLAND
In this story from The Mission Issue 27, Andrew Harrison and his son Ruari find that, away from the crowds and into the bush, if
SEVENTY-FOUR OFFSHORE
By Edward Truter Some time ago, some of my friends who I fish offshore with (usually casting and jigging lures on light gear) mentioned that
