Almost 30 years old and with over 30 saltwater species on fly, MC Coetzer’s Ross fly reel has stood the test of time. As featured in The Mission Fly Mag Issue 01. You know you’re getting old when you Google your favourite fly reel only to come up with hits on e-bay and a site [...]
So one of the upsides of lockdown has been a lot more spare time on one's hands to fuck around at the vice. I think since March I have tied enough flies for a dozen trips or more. Having the creative outlet at the vice has certainly done a lot to stave off the darkness [...]
Essential fly fishing gear for a trip which you don't think you will need. Mosquito Net. Ray got me on to this one and its been used ever since. Not always for mosquitos. And mesh is never a bad thing to have around water. Travel Plug An obvious one. BUT- get [...]
Badass blades with reclaimed skateboard deck handles, made by a fly fisherman in Cape Town, South Africa. What’s not to like? Meet Scott Lowry, our Little Guy profile from issue 20. Who are you and what do you do? My name is Scott Lowry and along with my dad, I custom make a range of [...]
Manually spooling 300m of backing off and back onto a fly reel after every saltwater trip is painful. But essential to prevent corrosion. A fence wire spooler and a cordless drill offers an easy solution. Fencing spools come in a variety of diameters. This 30 cm version gives you almost a meter per crank [...]
April 2005 I was fortunate, along with my late old man, to wrangle our way on to the first FlyCastaway "PAYDIRT" trip... 14 Anglers, 2 Guides... 2 weeks, two Seychelles outer Atolls which at that stage had virtually never been fished.. or if they had, it was VERY little... Cosmoledo for a week, and then [...]
When Frontier Fly Fishing brought out a bunch of new rods from their in-house brand Horizon, we stuck our hands up to conduct some long-term reviews. There was definitely an element of nostalgia behind such a magnanimous display of selfless volunteerism. Many of us still have or have had Horizons. It’s been around a while [...]
Everyone should be well aware that carp on fly is now entering that ‘booming’ phase - that exponential growth phase in popularity when most trout anglers discover just how nice and challenging it is to catch something else on fly, like tarpon...While reading up on the carp fishing history in our country I realised that [...]
I recently bought a spey rod, not for searuns, steelhead or salmon, but for carp on fly...You see I live in South Africa and we can cast across most of our trout streams with a 3 wt (and we don't have any searuns, steelhead or salmon). While I'll definitely also be hurling flies into the [...]
Check out our selection of the clips, videos and films that you could (and should) be watching right now online. Most fly-fishing edits these days combine exotic scenery with some tackling up and casting action... Climaxed by the obligatory grip-n-grin. These (mostly) are not like that. They aren't all fishing clips either and all focus [...]
