5 best things about where you guide? Kau Tapen’s Rio Menendez is the most insane tributary. Pulling out a fresh sea trout in a river no wider than your bathtub is a pretty gnarly experience. The night sky in the Kalahari will literally rock your socks off. Aliens are a thing. Dry fly fishing to [...]
THE BEATS – FLYBRU Nick van Rensburg in grumpy mode From the Kalahari, where Matt Gorlei guides with Kalahari Outventures, to Kau Tapen Lodge on the Rio Grande in Tierra del Fuego where you’ll find Nick van Rensburg in his rookie season with Nervous Waters, the FlyBru crew have come a long way [...]
Matt Gorlei of FlyBru is a bloody good angler. He’s represented South Africa at the World Champs and KwaZulu-Natal at Nationals, but for the most part he’s too laid back to take it overly seriously like many of the comp guys do. When he’s not guiding at Kau Tapen on the Rio Grande, in Russia [...]
RUSSIAN BEARS, VODKA, TOILET DUTY AND MANLY FLU REMEDIES - Flybru’s Matt Gorlei (our High 5s guide from Issue 3) reports back on his first season on the Kola Peninsula with Roxtons in Russia. A scary Russian. What did you expect? I expected it to be like everything you hear or see about [...]
Matt Gorlei and Nick van Rensburg are the two charnas behind Flybru (the fishing/filming student crew out of Stellenbosch University and the gents behind our cover shoot video). They were both at Stellies last year, until wonder of wonders Matt passed his exams and buggered off to South America to guide on the Rio Grande [...]
The FlyBru guys at it again; nice work guys! Enjoy... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brcO5pNAct8
When I was in university I met two students that shared my passion in life, fly fishing. Billy De Jong was fiddling his way through the intricate wiring of electric-electronic engineering while Gerald Penkler amused himself with chemical reactions in biochemistry. I tussled with genes of aquatic bacteria that played a role in killing fish. [...]
By Gordon van der Spuy I dig how things sometimes just happen. A few months ago I was sitting at my pal Nick van Rensburg’s spread; we were babbling about fly fishing and messing around with fly tying equipment. I may be weird that way, I know, but I like the funny side of life [...]
FlyBru and Fanie Visagie (a.k.a., Gordon van der Spuy) recently released the 2nd fly-tying video demonstration of a long series I suspect. Again, Fanie shows some fancy tricks with locally collected, natural fly tying materials, this time displaying amazing multi-tasking skills while tying his "bef@#te" Zonker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4ulOksIb0M
I really enjoyed watching this FlyBru production of Gordon van der Spuy (Fanie Visagie) tying a popular Western Cape trout fly; Gordon shares some good fly tying tips in this 'tongue in cheek' movie. Rumour has it that the FlyBru team is working on the next Fanie Visagie fly tying demo - we are looking forward to [...]
