CARP NOT CRAP

While camping on the seemingly featureless middle reaches of the Breede River, I quite literally stumbled, through bushes and over
koi fly fishing

BREAD HATCH

The elusive bread hatch is an event like no other, and figuring it out requires an extremely specialised fly fishing

SPRING MISSIONS

Springtime is associated with great fishing, well at least almost everywhere across southern Africa. The months of September and October

LALU BUG: STEP-BY...

Tied and designed by Platon Trakoshis. The Lalu Bug is a heavy dragonfly nymph pattern that rides hook-point up, imitating
crayfish fly the mission LeRoy Botha

CONFESSION, 2023

If I told you that I took a break from grunter fishing this year, and instead trained some big, wild

ECHO RECAP 2022

The African 'forest stream' yellowfish mission is yet to happen (I blame Covid-19...), but while gathering more info for this

EARWORMS AND CARP...

Battling musical earworms from Grease, Platon Trakoshis gets to grips with some hyper-spooky Berg River carp. DAY 1 I had

DEER HAIR AND CDC...

My corruption of Herman Botes’ Papa Roach has come up in conversation quite a bit lately. It’s fair to ask

CARP ON FRY

Plop.  Greedy eyes swivelled towards the commotion. As they focussed, I swear she licked her fat rubber lips at the

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