HOME ON THE RANGE
TROUT! BEER! BEARS ! A LIKE-MINDED TRIBE! Tudor Caradoc-Davies visits Montana and finds a home away from home. "The full title of Sacha Baron-Cohen’s 2006 Borat movie is Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. In it, Borat, the clueless and incredibly inappropriate ‘Kazakh’ that Cohen plays, blunders around the USA, learning about the natives [...]
7-YEAR-ITCH
A story of two smallmouths and water under the bridge by LeRoy Botha in issue 19 of The Mission "14 November 2012. It’s incredibly hot and the wind is shunting. I’ve come prepared for a day or three’s fishing: food, tent, beer, gear. The Upper Gouritz River at this point is a wide, powerful river, always flowing crystal-clear during the [...]
A RIPPLE OF EXCITEMENT
Tired of flies falling around in your foam fly box? I definitely was (especially after losing plenty flies carrying cheap polystyrene boxes in my pocket) until I got handed the Ripplebox. Sceptic as always about [...]
THE SUCK
Renowned sado-masochist, James Topham, in Issue 19's Undercurrents, on the best of the worst times in a guide’s life. "While the soaking salt water spray from the bow of the skiff is the bane [...]
HERMIT HERNANDEZ – THE SBS
I didn't know how this name popped into my head and decided to give it a google, pre post. Turns out there was an American Footballer with that last name who became a murderer and [...]
THE TAILGATE CONFESSIONS #1: LOST (AND FOUND)
“Which species did you catch on it? Tigers, leeries…?” Came the message from Tudor. Like any editor worth his red pen, he was nit picking at my review of the Horizon 990-4 TSS for an [...]
MISSING THE PERFECT SHOT
It was a camp Ray had never heard of, and both of us were worried about one massive, scary thing; humans. This wasn’t a typical fly fishing lodge like those catering to the Australian and [...]
THE MATRIARCH
What am I most proud of? There’ve been a good few achievements among my tribe these past few years. Two of us have represented at national level and the third at provincial level in our [...]
THE LEGEND OF FUCK YOU VALLEY
This is an excerpt from our issue 4 cover story, The Legend of Fuck you Valley, which covers a trip to the Bokong river in Lesotho and its friendship-testing browns. "The plan was simple. A [...]
MUNCHIES: THE LESOTHO LOAF
Guide, James Kirsten, of African Waters (the artists formerly known as Tourette Fishing), on his Lesotho Loaf, his Bokong Bread, his Basotho Brioche. “One advantage of guiding in Lesotho is that there isn’t much out [...]
MINI GOLIATH
We were floating down the lower Orange talking about fish species and fly tying while watching birds and casting streamers when we spotted a goliath heron hunting majestically on the bank. Garth Wellman mentioned how [...]
DREAM, DREAM, DREAM…ABOUT BIG GARRICK ON FLY
When you see photos of fly-caught garrick, they seldom depict big and/or adult fish (and that's also relatively speaking because there seems to be a lack of scientific data related to sexual maturity in these [...]