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 [...]
Tobi was our little dog who sadly left us recently after a good life of around 15 years. He was a cross between a toy Pomeranian and a baby polar bear. My wife, Belle, adopted him at a young age or more like he adopted her. The old lady who lived next door to Belle's [...]
Mullet are suckers for a floating sand flea imitation. This is especially true along beaches where masses of sand fleas are writhing under every frond of decaying kelp. This was not one of those beaches. On numerous occasions when action was slow, schools of mullet had me wishing that I had a few mullet flies [...]
Think of strippers and it’s likely that what comes to mind are poles and dancing, grinding booty, thongs flying through the air, names like Candy and Crystal (possibly the odd Chad), dollar bills and lap dances. You might remember that one friend who claims he’s “made a connection”; bouncers ushering you outside; a hangover from [...]
"Hot and wet, thees ees the best time for the black bass" - said in a strong Greek Cypriot accent. As I looked outside at a hot and rainy day full of excitement for the fly fishing we had planned for farm dam largemouth bass, these words from my uncle Arkis echoed in my head [...]
Tails slapped and splashed ahead. Excitedly, we crunched our way forward through shells and the West Coast mist that enveloped everything in white. This was it - white steenbras tailing on the flats. "Anticipation gave way to surprise as they morphed into a school of marauding guitarfish" Guitarfish come alive with the tides [...]
Lockdown - I'm tired of hearing it and avoid the subject these days. But during the lockdown, my fly tying station was my psychologist. Years ago my tying desk was in something close to a cellar, the living space was two floors up. My wonderful wife, Belle, wouldn't have any of this so she bought [...]
On fly fishing on the Orange River... Were we going to get lost? That was one of our main concerns leaving Cape Town. Our mode of transport was Warwick Leslie's Alu-Cab Hilux, the ultimate overland machine, we could have gone to Cairo in it. But we weren't, we were on our way to the Orange [...]
Written by Sean Christie. Illustrations by Conrad Botes. As featured in The Mission Issue 05. Mrs Daniels’ English class, standard 7, set two: the one time in my life I plagiarised another writer. It was a creative writing assignment, the sort of thing I had relished and excelled at in my last year at junior [...]
Fly fishing is having a bit of a moment at the moment and that is perhaps one of the few silver linings we can take from 2020. With more and more people spending time either at home or out of traditional office spaces, there's been a lot more time for people to evaluate what is [...]
