Call them ladyfish, skipjack, tenpounder, giant herring or…our favourite, springer, but whatever you do, do not neglect these high-speed tarpon cousins from your bucket list. In this excerpt from our issue 34 Wish List Fish pages, Ed Truter gives us the skinny on skippies. In terms of technique - fly tackle, favoured flies, retrieve etc, [...]
Neglecting work to take advantage of a glorious gap, Jazz Kuschke finds success targeting bonito on fly off the rocks in the Southern Cape. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain” - Jack Kerouac The window creaked open at [...]
From "Undercurrents" in The Mission Issue 23: When Alex McLeod of Omnispool (manufacturers of the nifty Switchbox line management system) landed on the remote Seychelles island of St Brandon’s, he found himself in bonefishers’ heaven. The gods were smiling on him and life was just peachy. He relaxed. He dropped his guard. Then things changed [...]
This excerpt is from the Tim Babich profile, 'The Chameleon' in issue 32 of The Mission. Over the years of hard salty slog, from Cosmo, to Providence, then on to St Brandon’s and back, post-piracy, to the Seychelles with FlyCastaway on Farquhar Atoll, Tim grew as a guide. As with most people who spend enough [...]
Fly fishing for kob and grunter: During early March I had the good fortune to spend some time and fish my favourite spot away from home, the beaches and estuaries of Central West Africa. Now apart from the main attraction, tarpon, there are all sorts of other fish that makes this trip special. Especially the [...]
For the last two years I've questioned my passion for fly fishing. Lost and in love with my work all but drowned out fantasies of wish list fish and far-away exploration. Even standing on a beach in Gabon, in the peach morning light I was left wondering if it was still there. And then you [...]
Issue 31's cover was a little unusual for us. For one thing, it actually involves a fish (ehrmagherd!), but the way that the giant trevally is shot, the angle, the viscosity of the water and the background, it looks like a futuristic car unveiled at an auto show. It was taken on the [...]
From exploring India and catching world record masheer as a feral youngster, to growing up and spending his working days on location with Flycastaway in places like Providence, St Brandon’s or Sterkfontein - Nic Isabelle has a pretty schweet life (and a porno tache). Before he returned to Providence for the first time since the [...]
The Feathers Award is an annual award given to the most remarkable catch in a calendar year. So, if you or someone you know caught an amazing fish between the 1st of January 2021 and the 31st of December 2021 (when entries close), that catch is eligible. Last year's winners were Barnes and Ed Ghaui [...]
When he’s not trying to cast a fly, Dr Patrick Avery can frequently be found tending to Sir David Attenborough and his BBC film crews all over the world … from rainforests to savannah, Iceland to Antarctica. Here’s his advice on the medical kit to pack for a proper expedition. "I was lucky to [...]
