Forget the gaudy colours of its Indian Ocean brethren, the Ocean triggerfish is the Anna Wintour of the entire goofy, bucktoothed clan. In issue 26, Gerald Penkler gave us the low-down on these toothy scrappers. WHAT: Dynamite comes in small packages. Up to a 70 cm and 6 kg parcel in the case of the [...]
We catch up with travelling guide, Johann du Preez, on the subject, the location and the challenges involved in his latest project, a short film about fly fishing for the strange, massive, air-breathing arapaima (one of world’s largest freshwater species) at Rewa Eco-Lodge in Guyana. What’s Guyana like? The most notable thing about Guyana [...]
When you are used to catching normal-sized trout in normal places, visiting Jurassic Lake in Patagonia (full story in issue 20), feels like a journey into a parallel world. To put it bluntly, our minds were blown. Massive fish, in their hundreds, caught on dry flies, nymphs, streamers, deerhair mice and whatever else we threw [...]
Deadly on stillwaters, but essential in pretty much any freshwater fly box, the Skinny Damsel also covers many essential fly tying techniques and tips. In this quick video, Gordon van der Spuy, aka The Feather Mechanic, shows us how to tie the Skinny Damsel. For more on this pattern and other brilliant fly tying advice, [...]
A leerie is a leerie is a leerie, right? Wrong. Turns out there are probably four leerie types and they have all been sharing the same scientific name for way too long. ----- ----- ----- Like most people, from time to time I fall down a Google rabbit hole. Does a platypus have nipples? [...]
Whether it’s guiding for salmon on the Årøy in Norway or putting clients into fish on the flats of the Seychelles, after 16 years in the game Scot de Bruyn (@cartel_flyfishing) has seen it all. We caught up with him in issue 26 for a rapid-fire High 5s. Scot de Bruyn with a Seychelles [...]
FST 2021 is here! We know, we know. In an ideal world we would all be meeting up for this, smashing beers, whooping at fish porn and diving like starving seals across the aisles for some sponsor swag. For all the bovious reasons, that is just not an option. Wherever you are in the world [...]
The mountains of the Western Cape are home to many trout streams, both well-known and hidden, offering both rainbows and browns. But once you have quenched your thirst for salmonids, if you push deeper into the middle of nowhere as Leonard Flemming did fly fishing in the mountains of the Western Cape, you will find [...]
The world’s strongest and most sought-after fresh and saltwater fish on a bamboo fly rod? It sounds like the kind of thing your grandpa dreamed of 100 years ago, but for Nick Bowles of Ocean Active Fly it was a modern challenge based on history. Armed with Thomas & Thomas’s modern bamboo saltwater rods and [...]
Indicative of their omnivorous tastes for fly fishing and travel, from Stephan Dombaj and the rest of the team at Fly Fishing Nation comes not one, not two, but six playlists depending on your location or mood. From classical to party vibes and heavy metal, best you buckle up. Monster fish lost in time [...]
