THE MISSION ISSUE 49

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That’s right you moustachioed muchachos, our Jan/Feb 2025 issue features the Feathers Award, and boy did 2024 serve up some absolutely mind-boggling fish caught on fly on the African continent. Massive grassies, titanic tarpon, behemoth blue yellows, koi, belman, unidentified weirdos and more.

What else, you ask?
• There’s “The Apprentice”, Deon Meyer (not that Deon Meyer) and his peacock bass adventure in the Amazon with Agua Boa , which our cover illustrated by Simon Berndt celebrates.
• Then there’s MC Coetzer in “The Virgin”, where he finally gets his tigerfish wings at Matoya Fishing Lodge on the Barotse floodplains after a lifetime spent in a piscatorial chastity belt of his own poor judgement.
• We also have Leonard Flemming’s “A Clockwork Orange”, on the brilliant fishing at Ghkui Gkhui on the Orange River.
• Editor Tudor Caradoc-Davies’s “Same Same But Different” experience in Tasmania with Aussie Fly Fisher chasing top quality trout in a range of different conditions.
• A High Fives with bespoke mullet owner Eddie Rall.
• A Lifer with condensed milk adventurer Andy Coetzee.
• And Stu Harley’s Undercurrents on our moronic obsession with size.
• Not to mention a lust-worthy Wish List Fish, mountains of clobber, beats and more.

ON THE COVER: The jungle scene at Agua Boa in the Brazilian Amazon as imagined by illustrator Simon Berndt.