A little look back at the Iron Man prawn fly. A little while back LeRoy Botha and I once again found ourselves on a grunter bank. The initial plan an ambitious one involving leeries, but when the onshore breeze and rising swell chased us off, we ran for the river. It turned out to be [...]
I used to go through surfing, fishing and climbing phases, but since time's become limited with two little boys at home fishing's naturally taken over any leftover, spare time. My interest in fish (which started at the age of three, according to faint memories and family photo albums) fuels the priority pastime; when I'm not [...]
Something I love about being a fly tyer in this day and age is the amount of access to information. Facebook, Youtube, Forums, Whatsapp groups, clubs and more, to be honest there has never been a better time to be a tyer... in my opinion anyway. Another thing I love is learning tricks from guys [...]
A few of my flies hanging in OceanSouldiers bar waiting for Chad to take them for a swim! Getting ready for Fiji forced me to clamp some big hooks into the vice. It's been a while since I tied GT flies and I'd forgotten how much I enjoy tying big flies. As always, [...]
“I’ve just tied up 10 more mega clousers, bru,” came Ewan Naude’s words late last week, following a phone call to James Williams from Wildman Fishing co. Ewan's mega clousers “Basically, like I would be tying if I was fishing for Geets off Mozambique - I wrapped the shanks in copper wire, plus [...]
The Harley Shakes is a fly created by Stuart Hartley, a guide for Tourettes Fishing, designed specifically for the Tiger Fish (Hydrocynus Tanzaniae) of the Mnyera and Ruhudji Rivers in Tanzania. It's a surface fly that is very productive and a favourite for these rivers. You can see the fly in action in The African [...]
Spanish barbel gently sip dries, but what follows is an electric, turbo charged, dash into the depths. Here are some patterns that worked during the trip to Extremadura covered in The Mission Magazine #17. The insect life around the desolate, arid lake sides is tremendous. Every flower was covered with little beetles, hundreds of spiders [...]
I recently returned from my annual trip on the lower Orange river and when people ask me what I love about fishing I usually simply take them through a day on the Orange. You float down a deserted river with zero contact with the outside world for 6 days enjoying nature in all her splendor, [...]
With Peter's recent post on how much he hates me and the BEAST Fleyes I've been obsessively tying over the last 18 months, I thought maybe its worth putting together a little video clip of just why these flies create the obsession in so many of us as soon as you start tying them... Not [...]
I hate the damn beast fly. And I hate that Andre has made me feel like I need a fly box full of them. And for making me obsessed with them. Somewhere between reverse tying, getting superglue stuck to my fingers and wasting thread on thread dams I decided there had to be a better [...]
