GIFT GUIDE: ON THE 4TH DAY OF CHRISTMAS
PART 4 in a 12 part series of blogs where we look at the Christmas Wishlists of The Mission/Feathers & Fluoro team. Each list features three categories: Stocking Filler (cheap and cheerful), Sublime (a great piece of gear in the mid to high price range) and Ridiculous (what Midas wants, Midas gets). Today’s dreamer is Joburg yellowfish whisperer, Herman Botes. [...]
HOT WIZARD SBS
This is a basic zonker streamer that I tied to catch some of our larger freshwater predatory fish. The colour combo is based on other effective streamers, especially tigerfish streamers, used across Africa (I took a page from Malcolm Meintjes' zonker tiger flies as displayed in the FOSAF Favoured Flies series). I’ve only been fishing it in 2018 and it [...]
GIFT GUIDE: ON THE 3RD DAY OF CHRISTMAS
PART 3 in a 12 part series of blogs where we look at the Christmas Wishlists of The Mission/Feathers & Fluoro team. Each list features three categories: Stocking Filler (cheap and cheerful), Sublime (a great [...]
GIFT GUIDE: ON THE 2ND DAY OF CHRISTMAS
PART 2 in a 12 part series of blogs where we look at the Christmas Wishlists of The Mission/Feathers & Fluoro team. Each list features three categories: Stocking Filler (cheap and cheerful), Sublime (a great [...]
GIFT GUIDE: ON THE 1ST DAY OF CHRISTMAS
PART 1 in a 12 part series of blogs where we look at the Christmas Wishlists of The Mission/Feathers & Fluoro team. Each list features three categories: Stocking Filler (cheap and cheerful), Sublime (a great [...]
MONDAY MOTIVATIONAL: PLACES WE’D RATHER BE
"It’s almost impossible to articulate the degree of purity of the water in a place like this, there is something truly virgin about it. To say that it is as clear as the water that [...]
THE NATURAL
"Mark is good to watch, which some fly fishers, no matter how good they are, are not, though it's not something I can easily find words for. I guess with Mark his most important attributes [...]
BRAVO, ALPHA ZULU
Every now and then, someone appears on the scene who you just know is going to go far as a guide. Skills are a prerequisite in guiding, but it helps to have a winning personality [...]
P*RN FROM THE HORN
Terrorists in Somalia! Pirates in the Gulf of Aden! War in Yemen! The countries of the Horn of Africa and their counterparts across the Gulf of Aden are, for the most part, easy to dismiss [...]
WHAT ONE OF THE WORLD’S BEST TRAIL RUNNERS CAN TEACH YOU ABOUT FLY FISHING
Over the past decade I’ve had the privilege of working with some of South Africa’s finest action- and adventure-sports athletes. Seriously bad ass cats who make a living from their respective sports. Surfers, rally drivers, [...]
THE SHAPE WE’RE IN
"Forget the future. The really scary thing is the present. We still have fish and decent fishing in parts, for now, but things are changing apace. Places that used to be [...]
GABON PREP
Gabon, I just can't help myself from returning to this place time and time again to chase tarpon off the beaches. Sure, the snapper, threadies and jacks are nice to catch too, but if I'm [...]