DISTRACTIONS | WINTER 2024
Dear winter, we’re battling to get to grips with you; you may have taken (most of) our fishing, but you will never take our freedom
fly fishing
CABIN FEVER
Between a Wild Coast rewilding in South Africa and his time spent standing in magnificent rivers for days on end as a salmon guide in
OUT OF FRAME
When he’s not putting out award-winning graphic novels and exhibitions, celebrated French comic artist Christophe Chabouté can usually be found travelling around France in his custom-built fly
COULD HAVES DON’T COUNT
Following the loss of a friend, Jazz Kuschke ponders the last cast. I never got to fish with G. There was a potential Richtersveld drift
PROPRIETY AND THE CURE FOR CATFISH FEVER
For some years, I have largely ignored my closest fishing hole. Five minutes from home, the Garden Route Dam was once a pristine bass fishing
FISHING WITHOUT HONOUR
Written by Sean Christie. Illustrations by Conrad Botes. As featured in The Mission Issue 05. Mrs Daniels’ English class, standard 7, set two: the one
PROSPECTING FOR GOLD AND HAM
A golden olive back porpoised in the wind rippled surface. Then another, and another. The surface was alive with barbel tucking into dinner. We had
THE PUNISHMENT
“You won’t land that fish“, said Piet. A sense of finality from the first glimpse of the huge shape passing under his canoe. The most
THE ALTERNATIVE ABSA CAPE EPIC RACE REPORT
This has everything to do with fishing. All dressed up with nowhere to go in the time of COVID-19… Now that some of the dust
THE ALTERNATIVE ABSA CAPE EPIC RACE REPORT
This has everything to do with fishing. All dressed up with nowhere to go in the time of COVID-19… Now that some of the dust