THE FIVE BEST (FREE) WEATHER APPS FOR FLY FISHERS
I clearly remember my late grandfather (the one who first introduced me to fishing) tapping his barometer.It was one of those classic dome-glassed models with the dual pointer arms and a liquid temperature gauge at the bottom. Set in yellowwood, it hung in the bar- which was all cut glass decanters and memorabilia, including a mounted sailie caught off Mauritius [...]
HIGH 5s – STU HARLEY
Tourette Fishing’s barefoot Mowgli - from Lesotho to Tanzania, Sudan and Cameroon, Stu Harley is the feral guide you want on your side. 5 favourite fly fishing destinations globally? 1. Cameroon! It’s still a very new thing, but I cannot wait to get up there again and continue to learn about this mind blowing fishery. 2. Sudan, endless miles of [...]
GIFT GUIDE: ON THE 5TH DAY OF CHRISTMAS
PART 5 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 [...]
BAUER CRAB PART 2
After my SBS I got an conspicuous email from Dean Riphagan from Frontier Fly Fishing - "Send me your physical address, I have something for you." Hate mail? Letter Bomb? I called Dean and he [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 PERFECT FISHING ROOM – PART 2
This post has been in the pipeline for a while (here's Part 1), but the completion of this project was agonizingly slow. The finished product is absolutely everything I envisaged. In terms of desk space, [...]
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 [...]