I've been messing around with various techniques and styles of Bucktail tying recently, incorporating a few of Bob Popovic's techniques as usual in a variety of different patterns. I've always had a love and attraction to the tear drop/razor belly style of baitfish patterns that the likes of Jason Taylor ties... There is just something [...]
From guiding for Goliath tigerfish in the Central African Republic (CAR), to guiding in Cameroon and Tanzania with African Waters for Nile perch and tigerfish respectively, you’d be hard-pressed to find a more accomplished fly fishing guide than Greg Ghaui across Central and East Africa. For our issue 33 High Fives, We caught up with [...]
Few other fishing disciplines seem to draw as much of an attraction/obession to the wierdo species of the fishing world than fly fishing.. think Triggerfish, Mullet, Parrotfish, some of the weird micro species in freshwater, Milkfish etc... Few are weirder than Gotham City's finest, the Batfish (Platax teira). I've come across these things in multiple [...]
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 converted. But if you’ve never watched a fish swim away thinking, “Oof, hope he’ll be okay,” you’re not exactly alone. So here’s a little pic dump of fish that made [...]
The Feathers & Fluoro team have been busy of late, with not one, not two but three of the guys featuring in podcasts from the USA, Australia and South Africa. LEROY BOTHA ON THE FEATHER MECHANIC PODCAST "Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him Horatio." Gordon van der Spuy, aka The Feather Mechanic, is [...]
It's no secret that Southern Oman, the Hallaniyat Islands and the NoBoundariesOman operation there is one of my favourite places in the world. Between 2012 and 2017 I found myself there no less than 7 times, and doing my best to figure how to get there even more often.. Somehow between April 2017 and today, [...]
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 40cm trout is absolutely a trophy. It’s weird. Perhaps I just have different ideas of what good fishing entails in salt water as opposed to fresh, but then why do [...]
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. This sparked some conversation here at Feathers and Fluoro, with resident science type JD wondering out loud whether or not they’d be followed by springer (Elops machnata, aka skipjack, ladyfish, [...]
IRONMAN SBS If you haven't read part 1 and part 2.1 of this series, may I suggest you do before working through this piece? If we’re all still friends after that, let’s tie this thing. Note: Pic heavy post, and I found some of the finer points quite hard to explain. I hope you can [...]
A muse, a rant and an introduction to the upcoming Ironman SBS I feel as though we need some emotional preparation. Even if I were immune to bouts of overzealous, extra-verbose circumlocutory elaboration, an Ironman SBS was never going to be a quick read. I recommend setting aside a few hours one evening, with some [...]
