HERE BE DRAGONS
"We don’t bat an eyelid at an eight-ton bipedal kangaroo lizard with tooth-pick arms and a bull terrier head, so why are dragons that unlikely? Are they misidentified Pterodactyls? We are, after all, not talking about the most unlikely of animal designs. They were never blue whale-big, nor did they have drumstick-like legs with toothpick arms like a T-Rex or [...]
PATAGONIAN HONEY
"Within the first two weeks of this trip I had my fill of rainbows. Rainbows grabbed streamers and took to the air, they yanked dry flies under by the dropper nymph and devoured ugly dry flies in splashy rises. Like a paperback novel or a ‘friends with benefits’ relationship, they provided constant sparks of excitement, but rarely the deep satisfaction [...]
HARD KNOCK LIFE
"If I could change one thing in fly fishing, it would be the illusion that you can drop a packet of money on going to an exotic venue and come back as an accomplished fly [...]
MONDAY MOTIVATION: MONGOLIA
PLACES WE'D RATHER BE... include (but are not restricted to) being up a remote Mongolia river chasing giant taimen. That's just what three Slovakian fly fishing nuts - Michal Vavro, Juraj Vavro and L'udevít [...]
PATAGONIA’S YVON CHOUINARD ON KEEPING IT SIMPLE
In this excerpt from the revised second edition of Simple Fly Fishing, Patagonia’s Yvon Chouinard details why - in an increasingly complex, crowded, consumption-obsessed, high-tech world - it’s more important than ever to keep it [...]
5 MINUTE FIX
5 minutes to fish? No problem. Check out this quick edit from the guys at FlyBru of jet-setting angler Katka Svagorova experiencing some quality smallmouth yellowfish action on the Kalahari Outventures waters of the Orange [...]
ONE BOOT TO RULE THEM ALL?
Leonard Flemming got an advance pair of Patagonia’s new River Salt boots made in collaboration with legendary US boot brand, Danner (remember their River Gripper wading boots from the 80s?). Up mountains, through rivers and [...]
FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS
TWO FRIENDS, Dre and Warwick, Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee, chaos and order - one kitted to the teeth with the ultimate fly fishing vehicle, a pimped Alu-Cab bakkie, the other...not so much. Check out [...]
THE HEAVYWEIGHTS
In the previous post, ‘As long as it’s black and red’, I discussed the use of a fairly light-weight hook, the Dohiku #12 wet fly hook (type 644) to tie relatively sparse Zulu’s with variable [...]
DISTRACTIONS
RECENTLY AT THE MISSION: Photo c/o Toby Burrell We found Toby Burrell's blog on fishing for Ion(ic) sea trout in Iceland. One of the Frontiers Travel guides, we met Toby at last year's [...]
THE WILD HUNT
I ran South yesterday to test out some Salomon hiking boots that have finally been released in a natural colour (olive) as well as some new camera gear. A beautiful day out with obliging fish.
THE MURDER BIRD
From world champion caster, to building iconic fly lodges, rod building at G.Loomis and building his own brand in Echo Fly Fishing – if a life of variety, self-determination and hard-earned respect is worth coveting [...]