CARP NOT CRAP
While camping on the seemingly featureless middle reaches of the Breede River, I quite literally stumbled, through bushes and over boulders, onto a heavenly stretch
Matt Kennedy
BREAD HATCH
The elusive bread hatch is an event like no other, and figuring it out requires an extremely specialised fly fishing approach. Some say it only
GARDEN ROUTE LOCKJAW THREESOME
Deep in the southern cape’s Garden Route, while fly fishing for tailing spotted grunter, juvenile garrick and daisy-chaining mullet, an unassuming forest estuary held more
17 LESSONS FROM FLY FISHING IN DULLSTROOM
While experiencing Dullstroom trout fly fishing in style at Walkersons Hotel & Spa (golf carts, chonky troot, spa treatments and fine dining), Matt Kennedy found
SLAB CITY: QUEENFISH ON FLY IN DUBAI | FULL FILM
While taking in all the skyscrapers, fancy cars and the general otherworldly experience that Dubai is, The Mission’s Matt Kennedy found that the true wealth
NOBODY | THE MISSION’S ART DIRECTOR BRENDAN BODY
One of The Mission’s unsung heroes, Brendan “Bod” Body, is many things. A former pro skateboarder and skateboarding magazine founder and editor, a profligate fly
THE BROEDERSTROOM
The Broederstroom, the small montane stream that flows down the escarpment valleys of South Africa’s Limpopo province, eventually joining the Letaba River, is in the
3 BEATS IN 3 DAYS – CAPE STREAMS
Pictured above: The author’s dad, Alex Kennedy, on Beat 4 of the Elandspad River. To the guides, the river junkies and the trout bums, I
FLY FISHING FOR SANDSHARKS FILM: HOUDINI
Half-shark, half-stingray, the lesser guitarfish (AKA sandsharks/ sandies), are a gem of South Africa’s West Coast, and the ambush-fly angler’s dream come true. In this
WHEN THE LEVEE BREAKS
If you’ve been at the coast this summer and gazed absent-mindedly at a stagnant estuary, you’ve probably wondered if, how, and when estuaries should be
