We've been following Simon (Si) Kay's journey over the last few years and have watched as his filmmaking skills have developed. He left a corporate job as a Forex trader and had embarked on a trip around Southern Africa with his partner and child (the goal being to fly fish and film along the way), [...]
For as long as SA fly fishers have been obsessed with grunter, misconceptions and heresies have spread about fishing for them. Noticeably, and especially in the Western Cape, many grunter hunters have focused almost exclusively on one ubiquitous grunter food, the mud prawn. But has tunnel vision inadvertently done us out of options? Yeah, maybe. [...]
I’ve fished with Gloomis flyrods almost exclusively for over two decades. I simply love them and always have. In my humble opinion the 6wt stream dance and 12wt NRX (older and new models) are impossible to better in their weight categories. Of course, fishing is no different to say golf where my preference for equipment [...]
The other day I was minding my own business, scrolling through the time-suck vortex of Instagram when a promoted post from Awesome Maps popped up advertising their new fishing map of the world. I took the bait and clicked through to their site to check out the map. Firstly, hats off to the talented artist [...]
In this story from our archives (issue 5), Andre van Wyk finds love and lust in a bar called Providence. Sometimes you don’t know you’re obsessed with something till it smacks you right in the face. Like you never even knew about it, had never thought about it or even seen it, never knew [...]
A couple of weeks ago someone WhatsApped me a video that was doing the rounds on social media. It was of a 20-odd kilo tuna caught by the Bartho brothers on the KwaZulu-Natal coast in South Africa. In the video they suggest that the fish is a southern bluefin tuna (SBT) Thunnus maccoyii. Several SBT [...]
Plop. Greedy eyes swivelled towards the commotion. As they focussed, I swear she licked her fat rubber lips at the fry pattern hovering 1.5m away. She stroked her whiskers, cruised over and slurped it down. A plan was coming together and this was a welcome change. No hesitation or suspicion. Since moving to the Netherlands [...]
THE ROCK À LA BOOZE PLAYLIST In issue 27, our Beers & Beats pages were commandeered by our in-house pirate, editor-at-large Conrad Botes.Not only did he share his kick-ass black IPA recipe for the homebrewers out there, but he also gave us his go to tunes for drinking beer, making art and roadtripping on his [...]
I'm no fan of cyclists... I think if you live anywhere with narrow roads you probably aren't either. Unless perhaps you're a cyclist yourself. I'm not talking about mountain bikers, I'm talking about the lycra clad pseudo Tour de France coffee shop clogging shaved leg road cyclists that seem to be oblivious to everything and [...]
For some years, I have largely ignored my closest fishing hole. Five minutes from home, the Garden Route Dam was once a pristine bass fishing destination. The near-black tannic water made for challenging fly fishing, but experimentation and perseverance paid off. It also hosted enough bluegill to keep a kid busy for hours. But then [...]
