FEATHERS & FLUORO
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 consuming for a dad with two toddlers in the house! [...]
THE REWA RODEO
We catch up with travelling guide, Johann du Preez, on the subject, the location and the challenges involved in his latest project, a short film about fly fishing for the strange, massive, air-breathing arapaima (one [...]
A FEW QUEENS
I've been slack behind the lens recently. And slacker yet in getting images and words onto the blog. But here are a few shots from an outing the other day with Luke on his boat [...]
CLEARWATER CLANS
So it's no secret that Clanwilliam yellowfish were stocked into the Berg River back in the day (from 1964). I've been trying hard to find remnants of these stockings, but even though I've hiked and [...]
A SPECIAL FISH
Oh I've been dreaming of a fish, dreaming until I picked up a guide to saltwater fish of southern Africa..."Prefers depths of 10 - 300 m, recorded up to approx. 600 m...", Ugh... 'No chance [...]
BLING FOR CARP
We don't waste time on carp flies, because carp aren't exactly kings that only dine on the finest roast, right? They also thrive in mud holes that muck up flies in one outing, so why [...]
KING FOR A DAY – THE JURASSIC LAKE FILM
When you are used to catching normal-sized trout in normal places, visiting Jurassic Lake in Patagonia (full story in issue 20), feels like a journey into a parallel world. To put it bluntly, our minds [...]
THE SKINNY DAMSEL
Deadly on stillwaters, but essential in pretty much any freshwater fly box, the Skinny Damsel also covers many essential fly tying techniques and tips. In this quick video, Gordon van der Spuy, aka The Feather [...]
