FRIDAY FLIES – 31 OCTOBER 2025
31 October 2025 I should probably explain why Friday Flies once again dropped on a Saturday. Instead, I’ll just repeat what my grandpa used to
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FRIDAY FLIES – 17 OCTOBER 2025
Here’s a look at some flies that happened this week! Some cool ideas from Gordon Van Der Spuy and Pieter Snyders, and Jazz and I
FRIDAY FLIES – 10 OCTOBER 2025
10 October 2025 I miss fishing flies. If the internet is anything to go by, they barely exist anymore. Flies these days are designed to
SCIENCE, BRU: KNOT THAT HARD
They say, “let sleeping dogs lie”, but as much as I’m not planning to kick Ol’ Yeller while he’s down, I need the lying to
ENGLISH BABOONS
Who would believe that the drought would ever end? Until just the other day, the picture of a flowing Upper Gouritz was nothing but a
YELLOWTAIL ON MARS
Caught between worlds – that of heathens and clowns, and any puritanical fly-only instincts he might have once held – LeRoy Botha had to make
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
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
