SO, YOU WANNA SUP?
Seeing as a SUP has unfortunately become my primary method of floatation for fishing lately, I thought that I would put together a short essentials list to help you out as you go through the frustrations of learning to fish effectively from your SUP. So... Your missus has insisted on purchasing a SUP so that she can do yoga on [...]
MUNCHIES
SOUT RIBBETJIES WITH SALSA VERDE (aka groen sous you larnie) Like après-ski, après-fish is serious business. Chef Kyle Knight of The Shop in Seapoint, Cape Town, weighs in on his go-to munchies after a day on the streams. “When it comes to fly fishing, I cut my teeth on the Vaal River chasing yellowfish. It’s still one of my favourite places [...]
IRAN FISH SPECIES
We might have travelled to Iran for shots at big mangar (king barbus) with fly (read the full story of that trip in issue 10 of The Mission), but my fascination resided primarily in the [...]
CHASING NATIVES
In 2017 we ran a competition with Swift Fly Fishing, where a lucky reader won a one-of-a-kind Epic 476 Packlight fiberglass rod. As luck would have it, the guy who won it was Cameron Cushman, [...]
THE MINI BASS SMASHER
From the Furburger, to the Rich Chicken, the Poor Chicken (shem), the Articulated Scratch N Sniff, the Meat Magnet and many more, I’ve been stalking Meat Market Flies for a while now on Instagram. So, [...]
THE HERO
Time, distance and gridlocked traffic were never going to stop Peter Coetzee from interviewing Kenyan Jeremy Block, when the opportunity arose. The first person to catch a broadbill swordfish on fly (as well as a [...]
WISHLIST FISH – SARDINATA
A golden freshwater tarpon that schools together, works itself into a feeding frenzy and smashes poppers!?! Yes please. Beto Mejia from Fish Colombia opened the can on the mysterious sardinata in issue 13. http://issuu.com/themissionflymagazine/docs/the_mission_fly_fishing_magazine_is_6d7672d9e20d2f/12?e=27338987/67150664
FRIDAY PIC DUMP
Please note that we don’t own all of these photos/pictures, but we do love them and love sharing them…Click on pics to follow links: Sharptooth catfish and angler... Dani Jeenes with a bus of a [...]
TIGER MOTHER
Mocked by his mom, shunned by his peers and uninitiated in the ways of tigerfish, Tudor Caradoc Davies set off to Ichingo Chobe River Lodge to set the record straight"Naysayers had told me that the [...]
FLICKING THE SWITCH
I remember the emotion of picking up a fly rod for the first time, pulling fly line off the reel and feeling the thickness and suppleness between my fingers. I was in awe and tried [...]
THE 5 BEST THINGS…
... about the places where Gareth Reid of Mavungana Flyfishing guides? 1. Meeting all types of really cool people from vastly different backgrounds. Add fly fishing into the mix and watch how friendships are made [...]
A GALAXY OF GALAXIAS
New Zealand has many ‘freshwater’ indigenous fishes (many of NZ’s local species found in the rivers and lakes move freely between fresh and saltwater) and especially Galaxias species. We (South African’s) also have a diversity [...]