EARLY SEASON RIVER TACTICS AND TIPS
While you may be frothing at the thought of getting back on the water after winter, it’s worth taking a moment to think about how
fly fishing western cape
NOTHING VENTURED
Two off-duty Orange River fly fishing guides, Matt Gorlei and Luke Pannell, return to Cape Town for some off-season down-time. What does a guide do when they are not guiding? Spam Instagram with species they, “Can’t stop thinking about…”? Fall into the loving embrace of their significant others? Have a shave, a hot shower, a non-longdrop shit and put on a nice shirt? Hit a club and tear the ring out of it? Nyet. They make a quick plan to head deep into the nearby mountains for a short, two-night session spent hunting fabled brown trout.
Thundercats and Carp in the poo hatch of 2015
We went Carping because the meteorologists were anticipating a horrendous storm. The majority of our usual spots were forecast to be rained out and blown
Smalblaar Sunday
I spent Sunday morning on the second beat of the Smalblaar River. Neil Rowe had called and invited – I was very excited seeing as
