FEATHERS & FLUORO
THE EYE OF THE POOL
Text by Ewan Naude and photos by Leonard Flemming Looking for another piece of the puzzle, new water, and new expectations. The palpable excitement of seeing a different section of the same river for the [...]
GOODOO
WITH THE RELEASE of Goodoo, the new Murray cod film from Josh Hutchins' (aka Aussie Fly Fisher), we've been looking back in the archives at when we featured this impressive indigenous Aussie species as our [...]
WISH LIST FISH – NKUPE
If you ever find yourself around the south east Zambian shores of Lake Tanganyika, nkupe (aka Giant Emperor Cichlids), a beefy African cousin of the Amazon’s peacock bass, warrants your attention. Gareth George, of television show WildfFly Fishing Series, [...]
THE BUBBLE BUTT BEETLE
The Evolution of the Bubble-butt Beetle by Ed Herbst If you Google Philip Hills + Persistence Pays Off On the Smalblaar you will find a 2005 Piscator article on the website of the Cape Piscatorial [...]
ALEC AND THE ALPHLEXO – TIPS AND TRICKS
Words and Photos by Alec Gerbec https://www.instagram.com/p/Bi4tB_HHelX/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet If you have ever attempted to the tie the Alphlexo Crab, without a doubt you have run into some frustrating moments with the process. Whether it is [...]
CHASE THE DRAGON
"Some fish are meant to come to hand, while some seem doomed from the second the hook up happens. My fish was a bit of both. The swing had finished and I’d begun to retrieve [...]
GRASSY GALORE
(Part two of a catfish mission with Ofishally Babich) All photos by Terence Babich The gas stove lit up in blurry vision, my numb, shaking hand nearly getting burnt by the match in the process [...]
YUM YUM
(Part one of a catfish fly fishing mission with Ofishally Babich) All photos by Terence Babich Wildebeest, oryx, hartebeest, springbuck and ostriches criss-crossing the dirt track aroused much interest, disrupting our normal discussion about fishing [...]
