THE INVASIVE RED SWAMP CRAYFISH
Those of you who read every inch of The Mission magazine would have seen the piece on the invasive Red Swamp Crayfish (Procambarus clarkii) in
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THE ‘SA’S GOT TALENT’ FLY TYING COMPETITION WITH GRIP HOOKS
Think you’ve got skills? Want to see one of your patterns immortalized in South African fly tying like Herman Botes’s Papa Roach or Tony Biggs’s
JVICE NO. 2000
Are you a collector and fly tyer? The maker of arguably the world’s best fly tying vice is auctioning his 2000th vice for charity. Thank
GRUNTER GOTTA EAT Pt. 2.2
IRONMAN SBS If you haven’t read part 1 and part 2.1 of this series, may I suggest you do before working through this piece? If
SBS: THE EASY PEASY ANT
Freshly returned from a trip to the Bokong river in Lesotho with African Waters, Gordon van der Spuy (author of The Feather Mechanic), shares this
DEER HAIR AND CDC ROACH – SBS
My corruption of Herman Botes’ Papa Roach has come up in conversation quite a bit lately. It’s fair to ask why on earth I would tamper with this damn near perfect stillwater trout fly, but in my case the answer is simple: you absolutely don’t have to, but … you can.
TIGERS VS DRAGONS
Of course I’d heard about surface-feeding vittatus. I’d seen the videos too, like this one of bird-eating tigers. In October 2019 Ewan Naude and I
FAST FLIES
We’re loving this new video series on Youtube from Gordon van der Spuy (aka The Feather Mechanic), one of South Africa’s best fly tiers and
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
FLIES FOR THRIFT
I remember standing on the dam wall at Thrift, my eyes shifting to and fro between two things. One, a large trout milling over weed
