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Featuring the Rock on 🤘🏼Grunter, the Big Blue GT, the Olive Yellow, the Top Hat Troot, and the Flaming Farro, no matter your poison, your fishing style, or the angle of the dangle, our Species Sticker Pack ticks the box. Slap these quality vinyl stickers on your car, your cooler or your forehead (for extra points). -
Not quite Duck Dynasty, but also not quite high fashion either, our Pink Eye Camo Trucker blends in and stands out. Sporting a '70s foam trucker style with a more modern slightly curved visor, it's as at home bundu bashing for bass as it is at the bar.
• Flexfit Trucker cap with foam fabric • Foam front panel. Structured • Matching plastic snapback closure • Matching undervisor, 6-row stitching on visor Free shipping for orders of R500 or more - South Africa only. Fees apply for international shipping. -
If your vibe is as much street as it is stream and if you prefer clean lines over bold graphics, then our The Mission 5-panel jockey cap is for you. With a classic sporty camper shape, it features The Mission logo, a black clip closure, four black, metal eyelets, soft buckram and a matching undervisor to handle glare bouncing off the water. Product information- Jockey cap with camper shape
- Foam backed peak
- Black clip closure
- Matching undervisor
- 8-row stitching on visor
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The Mission Fly Fishing Magazine will always be free – you can pick up the latest issue at one of our stockists, or read the digital version online, forever – but, if neither of those options work for you (there’s no stockist near you; you live outside of South Africa; or you just really want to support us - thanks!), you can subscribe and have the print magazine sent directly to you.The Mission annual subscription
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Sign up and receive a nifty neoprene sunglass strap* branded with your favourite fly fishing magazine's logo, so The Mission can be on your head and your mind at all times. On the house! *(Sunglasses not included.)Please read the fine print below!
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If you find foam truckers a little too country and you are looking for a slick looking cap that still ticks the trucker box, but holds a more discreet shape, then our black retro trucker is for you. Featuring The Mission logo, a matching black snapback colure and black undervisor to handle glare bouncing off the water, it’s a timeless cap that’s at home on your head while fishing as it will be at a braai.
Product information
- Trucker cap with premium mesh panels
- Hard buckram
- Structured
- Matching plastic snapback closure
- Matching undervisor, 8-row stitching on visor
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Bored of the same old reel pouches, or perhaps you have loose reels that really need a home? Our premium neoprene reel pouches will not only protect your precious reels when they are not in use, but by sporting The Mission’s Tailgunner Grunter embroidered badge they will do it in style. Also available in Product information- 100% neoprene pouch
- Velcro fastening
- Embroidered badge
- This pouch sits in the Goldlocks Zone fitting most reels from 3-weight, up to 9/10-weight (e.g. Shilton SR9). It will be too roomy for tiny small stream reels and too tight for behemoth saltwater reels (e.g. 12-15-weight).
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Bored of the same old reel pouches, or perhaps you have loose reels that really need a home? Our premium neoprene reel pouches will not only protect your precious reels when they are not in use, but by sporting The Mission’s Yella Fella embroidered badge they will do it in style. Also available in Product information- 100% neoprene pouch
- Velcro fastening
- Embroidered badge
- This pouch sits in the Goldlocks Zone fitting most reels from 3-weight, up to 9/10-weight (e.g. Shilton SR9). It will be too roomy for tiny small stream reels and too tight for behemoth saltwater reels (e.g. 12-15-weight).
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Inspired by the original John Deere truckers, we roped in designer Nic Symes for this beaut of a cap inspired by that lurking feeling when fishing African rivers that something with teeth (AKA a flat dog, or crocodile) is watching you. Whether your fishing involves flat dogs or not, this cap…rocks 🤘🏼.
Also available in 100% polyester 5 panel structure Foam backed peak Double row poly snapback One size fits most. Free shipping for orders of R500 or more - South Africa only. Fees apply for international shipping. -
Inspired by the original John Deere truckers, we roped in designer Nic Symes for this beaut of a cap inspired by that lurking feeling when fishing African rivers that something with teeth (AKA a flat dog, or crocodile) is watching you. Whether your fishing involves flat dogs or not, this cap…rocks 🤘🏼.
Also available in 100% polyester 5 panel structure Foam backed peak Double row poly snapback One size fits most. Free shipping for orders of R500 or more - South Africa only. Fees apply for international shipping. -
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Blue sky...Orange River...Yellowfish... it does not get simpler than that. If you like a classic baseball cap where you can curve the crap out of the peak, then The Yella Fella Dad Cap in green deserves your attention. A classy baller of a cap, it features: An unstructured 6-panel build. Pre-curved peak. Cotton twill sweatband A fabric backstrap with metal buckle and tuck And, of course, our Yella Fella logo designed by Conrad Botes. One size fits most. Free shipping for orders of R500 or more - South Africa only. Fees apply for international shipping. -
Can’t understand the yoof of today and their flat cap, five panel what-what nonsense? Prefer a classic cap shape where you can curve the crap out of the peak? Then you should check The Mission Dad Cap featuring our iconic Tailgunner Grunter logo. Also available in: A classy baller of a cap, it features:- An unstructured 6-panel build.
- Pre-curved peak.
- Cotton twill sweatband
- A fabric backstrap with metal buckle and tuck
- And, of course, our Tailgunner Grunter logo.
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A classy, old-school baller of a cap in brown. Free shipping for orders of R350 or more – South Africa only. Fees apply for international shipping. -
Back in stock! Our dark blue T-shirts feature The Mission's iconic Tailgunner Grunter logo and are made from 100% combed cotton, with a soft to touch feel. Just like the mullet you are, there's a subtle vibe in the front and a party at the back.
Free shipping for orders of R500 or more - South Africa only; international shipping fees applyMen's T-shirts Size Chest width S 91-96 cm M 96-101 cm L 101-107 cm XL 107-112 cm XXL 112-117 cm -
It's red, it's white, and with our embroidered Tailgunner Grunter logo, this trucker is lucky cap dynamite. With this fine trucker cap sporting The Mission's Tailgunner Grunter logo, you'll look the part for either the Bayou, the Breede or a braai. We'd go as far as to say that this would be Cletus the slack-jawed yokel's choice of headwear and now, dear reader, it can be yours too. Also available in Product details:- 100% Polyester
- 5 panel structure
- Foam backed peak
- Double row poly snapback
- One size fits most
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With this fine trucker cap sporting The Mission's Tailgunner Grunter logo, you'll look the part for either the Bayou, the Breede or a braai. We'd go as far as to say that this would be Cletus the slack-jawed yokel's choice of headwear and now, dear reader, it can be yours too. Also available in Product details:- 100% Polyester
- 5 panel structure
- Foam backed peak
- Double row poly snapback
- One size fits most
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Make a statement with the Tailgunner Grunter Snapback, perchance our boldest style yet. Free shipping for orders of R350 or more – South Africa only. Fees apply for international shipping. -
Blue sky...Orange River...Yellowfish... it does not get simpler than that. If you like a classic baseball cap where you can curve the crap out of the peak, then The Yella Fella Dad Cap deserves your attention.- Available in Sand, Green or Brown
- An unstructured 6-panel build.
- Pre-curved peak.
- Cotton twill sweatband
- A fabric backstrap with metal buckle and tuck
- And, of course, our Yella Fella logo designed by Conrad Botes.
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Blue sky...Orange River...Yellowfish... it does not get simpler than that. If you like a classic baseball cap where you can curve the crap out of the peak, then The Yella Fella Dad Cap in brown deserves your attention. A classy baller of a cap, it features: An unstructured 6-panel build. Pre-curved peak. Cotton twill sweatband A fabric backstrap with metal buckle and tuck And, of course, our Yella Fella logo designed by Conrad Botes. One size fits most. Free shipping for orders of R350 or more - South Africa only. Fees apply for international shipping. -
You asked, we listened and now here it is - our issue 30/5-year anniversary cover (complete with blue flame belching hippos, crocs, nuclear bombs, the scorpion of chance and a helluva lot more), now available in a limited run of fine art prints (14 in total). Each A3 print is printed on Hahnemuhle acid free cotton paper using archival inks and signed by celebrated artist Conrad Botes (who also happens to be our editor-at-large). Find out more on his art on his website here and on his work with Bitterkomix here. Read our Behind the Cover of The Mission Issue 30 with Conrad Botes here. Delivery included in South Africa. -
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Our Issue 37 cover is a special one so we turned it into a limited run of 14 fine art prints. Designed by Simon Berndt of One Horse Town (who usually spends his time making psychedelic rock posters), it connects to the cover story about Tanzania's Majestic Rivers and features a Tanzanian tigerfish, a hippo, a plane, an Egyptian Spitting Cobra, and the aforementioned rivers. Think Willard Price meets the Hardy Boys and Tintin over a fly fishing backdrop. Each A3 print is printed on Hahnemuhle acid free cotton paper using archival inks and signed by Simon Berndt. Find out more on his art on his website here. Delivery included in South Africa. -
Buy 10 or more of any of the The Mission back issues below and get a 10% discount. Rare editions and single back issues are sold separately. Free shipping for orders of R500 or more – South Africa only. Fees apply for international shipping. -
John Deere? No fear. With this fine trucker cap sporting The Mission's Yella Fella logo, you'll look the part for either the Orange, the Vaal, Sterkies or a braai. We'd go as far as to say that this would be Cletus the slack-jawed yokel's choice of headwear and now, dear reader, it can be yours too. Also available in Product information- 100% Polyester
- 5 panel structure
- Foam backed peak
- Double row poly snapback
- One size fits most
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John Deere? No fear. With this fine, red and white trucker cap sporting The Mission's Yella Fella logo, you'll look the part for either the Orange, the Vaal, Sterkies or a braai. We'd go as far as to say that this would be Cletus the slack-jawed yokel's choice of headwear and now, dear reader, it can be yours too. 100% Polyester 5 panel structure Foam backed peak Double row poly snapback One size fits most One size fits most. Free shipping for orders of R500 or more - South Africa only. Fees apply for international shipping. -
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See the trout, be the trout, wear the trout. If you like a classic baseball cap where you can curve the crap out of the peak, then The Trout Dad Cap in sand or brown deserves your attention. A classy baller of a cap, it features:- An unstructured 6-panel build.
- Pre-curved peak.
- Cotton twill sweatband
- A fabric backstrap with metal buckle and tuck
- And, of course, our lucky trout 'The Mission' logo.
- One size fits most.
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Behold! We give you the loose, unstructured goodness of our new range of Captain’s caps featuring our Skull Island logo (artwork by Conrad Botes) and peak rope.- 100% made in South Africa
- they come in the orange and blue or grey and orange iterations
- Made from cotton twill
- peak rope
- One size fits most
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Arguably the best beanies in the world, this collab with Blankets from Africa will keep your pip warm no matter what's going on with the weather. The Mission beanie is:- Warm as hell and brilliantly made by women in rural communities in the Eastern Cape where unemployment is incredibly high.
- 100% pure Merino wool
- Subtle 'The Mission' branding.
- Choose from:
- The "Spiedkop" ensemble in blue and red/pink, named after the deadly fly.
- The "Kelpie" with light green over military green, so you can fit in amongst the seaweed on our coastline.
- Wear it as is, minus the pom-pom if that's not your vibe or use the pom-pom as a strike indicator if you run short.
- Buy one of these and not only will it keep your pip warm, but you get to support a good cause too.
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Arguably the best beanies in the world, this collab with Blankets from Africa will keep your pip warm no matter what's going on with the weather.- Warm as hell and brilliantly made by women in rural communities in the Eastern Cape where unemployment is incredibly high.
- 100% pure Merino wool
- This is the ‘Spiedkop’ ensemble in blue and red/pink, named after the deadly fly.
- Subtle 'The Mission' branding.
- Wear it as is, minus the pom-pom if that's not your vibe or use the pom-pom as a strike indicator if you run short.
- Buy one of these and not only will it keep your pip warm, but you get to support a good cause too.
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Behold! We give you the loose, unstructured goodness of our new range of Captain’s caps featuring our Skull Island logo and peak rope. -
See the trout, be the trout, wear the trout. If you like a classic baseball cap where you can curve the crap out of the peak, then The Trout Dad Cap in brown deserves your attention. A classy baller of a cap, it features: An unstructured 6-panel build. Pre-curved peak. Cotton twill sweatband A fabric backstrap with metal buckle and tuck And, of course, our lucky trout 'The Mission' logo. One size fits most. Free shipping for orders of R500 or more - South Africa only. Fees apply for international shipping. -
The Mission’s editor-at-large/spirit animal Conrad Botes also happens to be a grande fromage artist and one half of the Bitterkomix duo (soutiepress.com). This new 100% cotton T-shirt for The Mission features a panel from Bitterkomix no. 16. A perfect Christmas gift to yourself.Size Chest width Length S 53 cm 68 cm M 56 cm 69 cm L 58 cm 70 cm XL 62 cm 72 cm XXL 66 cm 66 cm -
The Mission’s editor-at-large/spirit animal Conrad Botes also happens to be a grande fromage artist and one half of the Bitterkomix duo (soutiepress.com). This new 100% cotton T-shirt for The Mission features a panel from Bitterkomix no. 16. A perfect Christmas gift to yourself.Size Chest width Length S 53 cm 68 cm M 56 cm 69 cm L 58 cm 70 cm XL 62 cm 72 cm XXL 66 cm 66 cm -
The Flathead might as well be our spirit fish. The DIY or DIE Flat Cap is our homage to it. Free shipping for orders of R350 or more – South Africa only. Fees apply for international shipping. -
The Flathead might as well be our spirit fish. The DIY or DIE Snapback is our homage to it. Free shipping for orders of R350 or more - South Africa only. Fees apply for international shipping. -
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THE FEATHER MECHANIC BY GORDON VAN DER SPUY AND TIM WEGE We don’t normally stock books, but for Gordon van der Spuy we made an exception because his new book, The Feather Mechanic is a one-of-a-kind contribution to the world of fly fishing and fly tying. An expert fly tyer and instructor, in The Feather Mechanic Gordon not only tells the story of his own development in fly tying with signature flair, but he also takes the reader into the function of some of the most deadly patterns in history, so you understand why they work. That way you can forget tying by pattern, go off-piste and create your own killer flies. Accompanied by Gordon’s brilliant sketches and brilliant macro images from freshwater ecologist Christian Fry, if you are in to fly tying our merely want to be a better angler, The Feather Mechanic is an essential addition to your collection. -
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Hunting Trout by Tom Sutcliffe Back by popular demand, if you do not yet have a copy of Hunting Trout – Angles and anecdotes on trout fishing, this - the third edition of Tom Sutcliffe’s classic, published by Burnett Media with forewords by Nick Lyons and Stephen Boshoff, new illustrations, a new cover shot by Gerhard Loubscher and a new preface from Tom - is one for the collection. Hunting Trout is informative, entertaining story-telling at its best and you will come away from this book wiser, better informed and motivated to make your own stories. There’s a reason Tom is compared to the great fly fishing writers and personalities of the UK, US and elsewhere, but we should hold him in higher regard because he is ours and the places he writes about are mostly our own too. -
When ‘The Rapture of the River’ was originally published in 1957, the first and only edition sold out within days and soon became South Africa’s most in-demand fly fishing book ever – attaining classic status within a couple of years. Today the book is so sought after that rare, surviving copies of Sydney Hey’s great masterpiece change hands between R1000 – R2000. Now at last, and at a fraction of the cost, you can revel in this remarkable autobiography of a fly fisherman and his fascinating recollections of halcyon days gone by. And you can fish virgin trout waters with him in the kind of unspoilt surroundings we can only dream about today. -
Yet More Sweet Days by Tom Sutcliffe The sequel to Tom Sutcliffe's Hunting Trout and Shadows on the Stream Bed, Yet More Sweet Days boasts 471 pages of Tom's fly fishing stories plus 50 pen and ink sketches. Through almost a lifetime's experiences of fly fishing, Tom shares the joy of the sport that has dominated his life (in a good way), while also imparting a ton of hard-earned knowledge in his unique story-telling style. Subjects range from stillwater fly fishing, fishing in Iceland, fishing the chalkstreams of Hampshire, the rivers and streams he loves best in South Africa, observations on fishing alone, notes on trout flies, back-country bridges, and the diary of three visits to the Eastern Cape Highlands around Rhodes and Barkly East. -
Smallmouth bass | Hatch junkie | Mark Murray | Keith Rose-Innes Welcome to the Mission. Authentic original first edition available here - Issue 01 Jan/Feb 2017. Free shipping for orders of R500 or more - South Africa only. Fees apply for international shipping. Stocks are limited. -
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Trevor Sithole | Spotted grunter | The Paarl panther | Jaco Lucas Missed this print edition? Unfortunately they're all gone. You can still read The Mission Issue 02 Mar/Apr 2017 online, for free, forever. If you have a copy, best you hang onto it! -
Arno Matthee | Gabon | Clannies Missed this print edition? The Mission Issue 3 May/Jun 2017 coming to you from the archives. Free shipping for orders of R500 or more - South Africa only. Fees apply for international shipping. Stocks are limited. -
The Lifer - Tom Sutcliffe | Stillwater trout | Djobouti call | Bob Clouser | Jono Shales | Lesotho Missed this print edition? The Mission Issue 04 Jul/Aug 2017 could be yours. Free shipping for orders of R500 or more - South Africa only. Fees apply for international shipping. Stocks are limited. -
Dead zone | Desperado | Marco Pierre White | Lefty Kreh Missed this print edition? The Mission Issue 05 Sep/Oct 2017 is all yours. Free shipping for orders of R500 or more - South Africa only. Fees apply for international shipping. Stocks are limited. -
Stephan Gian Dombaj | Cane poon | Lowveld yellows | Kamchatka | Joe Blados | Beers, beats and more Missed this print edition? The Mission Issue 06 Nov/Dec 2017 could be yours. Free shipping for orders of R500 or more - South Africa only. Fees apply for international shipping. Stocks are limited. -
Cape Rock & Surf | The Fishing Scientist | Exmouth | Toast Coetzer | Pat Cohen | Beats, Beers and more Missed this print edition? The Mission Issue 07 Jan/Feb 2018 could be yours. Free shipping for orders of R500 or more - South Africa only. Fees apply for international shipping. Stocks are limited. -
Dale Steyn | Gabon | Mongolia | Eduardo Garcia | Forest trout | Ozzie death | Beers, beats and more Missed this print edition? The Mission Issue 08 Mar/Apr 2018 is all yours. Free shipping for orders of R500 or more - South Africa only. Fees apply for international shipping. Stocks are limited. -
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Orange Free State | Oman | Jurassic | Guy Ferguson | African pike | Beetlemania | Beers, beats and more Missed this print edition? The Mission Issue 09 May/Jun 2018 could be yours. Stocks are limited. -
Conrad Botes wraparound cover | Oliver White | Cameroon | Fly fishing sucks Missed this print edition? The Mission Issue 10 Jul/Aug 2018 could be yours. Free shipping for orders of R500 or more - South Africa only. Fees apply for international shipping. Stocks are limited.
