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leroy 16 June 2025 11

They say, “let sleeping dogs lie”, but as much as I’m not planning to kick Ol' Yeller while he's down,

jkuschke 26 May 2025 1

You know you've reached a certain point in life when your gear is not just more expensive than your first

leroy 12 August 2024 4

Recently, I watched with some bemusement, how David Taylor works his CdC with almost no tools at all. Check out

fjdavis1 25 September 2023 1

I wrote this 10 years ago, almost to the day! And with all the rain bucketing down in the Cape,

leonardflemming 29 March 2022 0

I've been playing with a new rod and reel combo, a Moonshine Epiphany 10'6" 3 wt (to get yours in

themissionmag 20 February 2022 0

From carbon fibre to bamboo and glass, ultra-lightweight blanks to those with a little more heft, rods designed for travel

platon 10 September 2021 2

What to pack when fly fishing for tigerfish? Platon Trakoshis prepares for fly fishing in the Okavango. It's been years

petercoetzee 24 September 2020 0

I usually have more than one reel to clean when I'm coming back from a trip, and although the line

gerald-penckler 20 April 2020 0

Manually spooling 300m of backing off and back onto a fly reel after every saltwater trip is painful. But essential

fjdavis1 14 February 2019 0

Seeing as a SUP has unfortunately become my primary method of floatation for fishing lately, I thought that I would