SALTWATER FLY FISHING PREY REFERENCE – YELLOWTAIL FUSILIERS
This is a series of bait and their fly imitates that I'm doing as nod to Saltwater Prey, probably my favourite piece of fishing literature. [...]
ELOPS ESCOBAR
A large number of swimming prawns (almost certainly Penaeus monodon, aka Tiger Prawn) have invaded Southern Cape Estuaries at least as far south as Breede. [...]
GRUNTER GOTTA EAT Part 3 or 4
TOTALLY COMMITTED Nine to five. That’s how long I worked that flat today. The blazing sun burned me right through my shirt: I now look [...]
GRUNTER GOTTA EAT Pt. 2.2
IRONMAN SBS If you haven't read part 1 and part 2.1 of this series, may I suggest you do before working through this piece? If [...]
GRUNTER GOTTA EAT Pt. 2.1
A muse, a rant and an introduction to the upcoming Ironman SBS I feel as though we need some emotional preparation. Even if I were [...]
GRUNTER GOTTA EAT Part 1
For as long as SA fly fishers have been obsessed with grunter, misconceptions and heresies have spread about fishing for them. Noticeably, and especially in [...]
SPAGHETTI ALLA SUDAN
No stranger to big fish, when Meredith McCord visited the flats of Sudan she was on the hunt for triggerfish, bluefin trevally and GTs. What [...]
NO MORE MARKERS – PART 2
As good as the initial Jigskinz poppers looked, they suffered from the same issue most crease flies have (in my opinion) -they were too soft. [...]
EASY POPPERS
Something I've been missing in my fly boxes are decent poppers. Deer hair poppers look mint and fish well, but they are simply too time [...]
FLEACING MULLET
Mullet are suckers for a floating sand flea imitation. This is especially true along beaches where masses of sand fleas are writhing under every frond [...]
A SIMPLE SUMMER CREASE FLY
For the past season or two, I have been obsessing over simplifying my fly tying. Of course, there are situations which demand high-spec, over-engineered flies [...]