FEATHERS & FLUORO
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 [...]
THE RIO GRANDE ROOKIE
"If you had asked me a year ago what my future plans were, I’d probably have told you that I’d still be stuck at university, scraping through the shitty pages of textbooks, while frothing over [...]
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 [...]
