FEATHERS & FLUORO
TAIL FETISH
I'm a sight fisherman way before I'm a fly fisherman. Faced with two options; blind casting a fly rod, or pitching live bait at a target, I will pick the latter every time. As a [...]
REVIEW: PATAGONIA SWIFTCURRENT WADERS
As published in issue 29 of The Mission, Jazz Kuschke's review of Patagonia's Swiftcurrent Expedition Zip-Front Waders. Zip-front waders are a little bit like an air fryer. Okay, if you don’t have kids then perhaps [...]
WHAT LIES BENEATH
What if we can have the best of both worlds – brilliant trout fishing in the mountains of the Western Cape AND new (yet ancient) fisheries for large indigenous species that readily take a fly? [...]
DEER HAIR AND CDC ROACH – SBS
My corruption of Herman Botes’ Papa Roach has come up in conversation quite a bit lately. It’s fair to ask why on earth I would tamper with this damn near perfect stillwater trout fly, but [...]
TIGERS VS DRAGONS
Of course I'd heard about surface-feeding vittatus. I'd seen the videos too, like this one of bird-eating tigers. In October 2019 Ewan Naude and I were on the upper Zambezi at Sioma Falls (Ngonye Falls) [...]
WE KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST WINTER
Summer is over. This means temperatures are backing off to the mid to high 30s and we can now breathe outside again. Last winter was a goodie. Below are some images which kinda captures the [...]
HIGH 5S – ALEX WALLER
Our man in New Zealand, Gerhard Uys, catches up with New Zealand fly guide and video content creator Alex Waller to discuss New Zealand’s North Island, big trout, king fish (yellowtail) on the flats and more. [...]
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 she didn’t expect was the spaghetti worm. No one [...]
