WIRE LEADER MELTED LOOP
I love the Double Rapala knot shared by Leonard in his post of Double Rapala knot & Piano Wire knots for tigerfish. The other exceptional method to create a loop in nylon coated wire and widely used by pike fishermen across Europe, is the melted loop method. I intend to now couple this to the double rapala knot for pike. [...]
ORANGE RIVER PACK LIST 101
I had obviously packed everything that could possibly fit into my car for the 4 day Orange River Largemouth Yellowfish Conservancy drift with Kalahari Outventures, but besides your general fishing tackle and your favourite polarised sunglasses, there were a few items that I found particularly handy: Osprey Transporter 130 l duffel bag The Osprey Transporter 130 litre duffel bag [...]
NORMAN NO-MATES
“Like being on the edge of a waking dream, they appear, those damn Omani permit, melting in and out of your vision as they float through the mess of the shore break. But they are [...]
DOUBLE RAPALA KNOT & PIANO WIRE FOR TIGERFISH
As explained in the original post (Terminal Tricks for Tigers) this piano wire trace setup (or single stranded stainless steel trace) was still regularly used when the Tanzanian tigerfish played 'hard-to-get' and it is also [...]
SPANISH GOLD
"A mirror-calm bay glided into view as we hiked around a dry wheat-coloured hillock. Dry grass lined the banks as far as the eye could see and I regretted wearing the thick socks that had [...]
FLIES FOR SPANISH BARBEL
Spanish barbel gently sip dries, but what follows is an electric, turbo charged, dash into the depths. Here are some patterns that worked during the trip to Extremadura covered in The Mission Magazine #17. The [...]
WIN A LOOP CROSS ROD!
Christmas has come early this year as Mavungana FlyFishing are giving away a Loop Cross 9-foot, 5-weight, 4-piece rod worth over R10 000. Designed and engineered with LOOP’s signature Cross Core Technology System, each model [...]
FIVE BEST SMARTPHONE APPS FOR FLY-FISHING PHOTOGRAPHY
There’s no getting away from it. That freakin phone of yours is a pretty powerful piece of photographic technology. It’s also small, easy-to-use and you’d be lying if you said you one on the water [...]
THE SOUL SURFER
"I think it was the surfer Miki Dora who once said that a local is simply someone who doesn’t have their shit together enough to travel. Amen to that. I’ve been working away on a [...]
A MILD CASE OF CRABS
I recently returned from my annual trip on the lower Orange river and when people ask me what I love about fishing I usually simply take them through a day on the Orange. You float [...]
I AM NOT A WHENWE
A whenwe is a former British settler or expatriate who talks nostalgically about their former homes in colonial Africa, i.e.: "when we lived in..." (the origin of the term). In my case "When we were in Rhodesia...". But I’m Zimbabwean [...]
JIM BARTSCHI ON THE NEW SCOTT SECTOR
The legendary rod builder and president of Scott Fly Rods gives us some personal insight on the new Sector fly rod. I'm a self-admitted Scott fanboy. Ever since I was handed an SAS #8 (a [...]