Mavungana Flyfishing in association with the University of Mpumalanga, Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife and Pongola Game Reserve launched a groundbreaking tigerfish tagging project in June. They've already started recapturing individuals and the findings are astonishing.
How this art lure angler underwent the conversion to fly fishing in the toughest possible way - obsessing over spotted grunter... READ ON:
Seeing what (and where) the likes of Peter Coetzee (on his SUPfisher), Fred Davis (on an inflatable SUP) and Andre Wyk (on his enviable BOTE) fish, I've always been super interested in the possibilities and versatility of a SUP-style craft on our local estuaries. Never a shy of an up-cycle, or DIY 'improvement' project I've [...]
Of course I'd heard about surface-feeding vittatus. I'd seen the videos too, like this one of bird-eating tigers. In October 2019 Ewan Naude and I were on the upper Zambezi at Sioma Falls (Ngonye Falls) with Wildman Fishing Co. Early one morning we saw some peculiar surface boils in a quiet bay. Part of our [...]
No, the fish don’t all leave en masse! We’ve all seen those distributing social media clips of people cast-netting for kob and garrick as they attempt to exit recently opened South African estuaries mouths. But what really happens to the fish that have been trapped in those closed systems? “Some 70% of South African estuaries [...]
From the Seychelles to the Bahamas via the good 'ole Garden Route... The Reeds are about to start scripting a new chapter in their careers, but not before they fill us in on what is, what was, what should be and what will be: 1. Firstly, let's talk a bit about the past year (as [...]
Way back in 2016 Sacha Specker had a rather too-close encounter with a Great White shark while surfing off Noordhoek on the Cape Peninsula. Last month Sacha Specker dangled his feet off Strand for The Mission to shoot the cover with float tube kob maestro Conrad Botes. ‘Spex’ – as Sascha Specker is affectionately known [...]
So you already know 2021 F3T is here. For just $20 (R300), you get to chill in the comfort of your home, with your own cold beers and snacks at hand, and watch this incredible line-up of fly fishing films from all over the world at your leisure. All the way until 4 April. GET [...]
Some drool-worthy aerial footage of the 2020 season on Lake Jozini, Pongola. The sequence that starts at 01:35 (featuring the croc and the tiger) epitomizes this fishery for me. Gareth Reid is a master on the drone tools, I can watch that over and over... With all the current rain up there the margins are [...]
What to do if you (or one of your fishing buddies) gets bitten by a snake... The black mamba is pretty high up my shit-your-pants list. Right up there with a croc, bull shark and a grumpy dickhead of an old, lone, buffalo bull. This is only very loosely based on zoological fact, you understand. [...]
