A DIY CDC TOOL KIT
Recently, I watched with some bemusement, how David Taylor works his CdC with almost no tools at all. Check out David’s SBS of a Niger
LeRoy Botha
DUNKIN’ SOME DRAGONS
You’d think we’d get tired of talking about dragonflies around here, but I can tell you: not even close. That’s because as rated a fish
GRUNTER MATH
After getting his PhD in pancakes, refusals and eats, Professor LeRoy Botha runs us through the equations involved in catching the spotted grunter on fly.
CONFESSION, 2023
If I told you that I took a break from grunter fishing this year, and instead trained some big, wild river carp to eat bread
SHAWNING 101
In the past, I have imposed constraints upon things in a very random way. Although I have not been blind to my hypocrisy, only recently
LAZER POINTER FLIES
Us fly people frequently debate the merits of fluorescent colours in flies. Recently, during a chat with mates, I remarked that a fish’s reaction to
GRUNTER GOTTA EAT Pt. 5-ish
I’ve been contemplating ways to alter the attack when the surface bite for Breede and Kleinbrak grunter slows down, and I think, as always with
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Catch and release is what we do. It’s how it should be, you know it and I do, so I’m not gonna preach to the
LITTLE BIGS
Whereas I won’t be caught dead driving fifteen minutes to target 40cm leeries, I’ll drive hours to hunt smallstream trout. In my favourite stream a
ELOPS ESCOBAR
A large number of swimming prawns (almost certainly Penaeus monodon, aka Tiger Prawn) have invaded Southern Cape Estuaries at least as far south as Breede.