BEHIND THE COVER: ISSUE 42
At the end of 2023, we published The Mission Issue 42 with a cover shot by Álvaro G. Santillán picturing a scene from an ethereal
The Mission
DISTRACTIONS | WINTER 2024
Dear winter, we’re battling to get to grips with you; you may have taken (most of) our fishing, but you will never take our freedom
ALL THAT IS SACRED – YETI
If you were hanging around Key West, Florida in the late 1960s, you may have encountered a group of soulfully intoxicated musical and literary legends.
PAW: NYMPH FOR NIGER BARBS – STEP-BY-STEP VIDEO
Originally design by Blaede Russell, and tied by David Taylor here, The PAW (Pink And Wet) nymph is a simple beadhead fly built specifically to
21 THINGS I LEARNED ROAD-TRIPPING WITH ROLF
The films of Rolf Nylinder appeal not only from a cinematic point of view, but they look like the kind of jol you’d want to be a
HIGH FIVES: ALASDAIR GRASSIE
Generally fly fishing guides work in pretty wild places. But Scottish guide Alasdair Grassie works in one of the wildest places on Earth, Nyerere National
PICK UP STICKS
Where others see firewood, a club or, simply, dead trees, driftwood art sculptor Tony Fredriksson sees the adipose fin on a tigerfish, the gill plates
AUSSIE SALMON: WISH LIST FISH
Is it a salmon? Is it a kingfish? No… it’s an Aussie salmon. Saffer ex-pat Liam Surridge rates this sight-fishing species a must when Down
MARBATHO
On a whistle-stop tour from Cape Town to Joburg via the Bokong River in Lesotho, Swedish filmmaker Rolf Nylinder and his friends Markus Lemke and
THE SOURCE
Twenty years in the making, a father and son find the heart of their passion for fly fishing in a fishery that needs you to