THE MISSION ISSUE 48

Description

We kick off issue 48 with Álvaro G Santillán’s recurring wet dream about New Zealand’s South Island as the Spanish photographer takes us through the deep juju of its rivers and the phenomenal brown and rainbow trout fishing he’s experienced there.

Then we’ve got the veritable smorgasbord Ewan Naude experienced on the beach in Gabon with Cubera snapper, giant African threadfin and jacks followed by a main course of titanic tarpon (on foot, of course).

What else?
• LeRoy Botha’scrisis of conscience as he picked up (and put down) the heathen stick in search of yellowtail on Mars.
• Jazz Kuschke and Platon Trakoshis’s excellent yellowfish and carp adventure on the Lower Vaal.
• Filmmaker Will Phelps’s hard-earned advice on bikepacking and fly fishing.
• A leaden labeo Wish List Fish with Garth Wellman and Christian Fry.
• Mr Seafood JD Filmalter serving up a calamari step-by-step.
• A High Fives with Greg Maxwell (tracked down somewhere between Oman, Cameroon and Lesotho)
• A Lifer with smallscale and largescale yellowfish legend Horst Filter; plus tons of clobber, booze, beats and more.

ON THE COVER: Deep in New Zealand’s South Island, a mouse-munching brown swims out of the shadows beneath photographer Álvaro G Santillán.