GRUNTER GOTTA EAT Part 3 or 4

TOTALLY COMMITTED Nine to five. That’s how long I worked that flat today. The blazing sun burned me right through my shirt: I now look

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

GRUNTER GOTTA EAT Pt. 2.1

A muse, a rant and an introduction to the upcoming Ironman SBS I feel as though we need some emotional preparation. Even if I were

GRUNTER GOTTA EAT Part 1

For as long as South African fly fishers have been obsessed with spotted grunter, misconceptions and heresies have spread about fishing for them and what

SILENCING THE INNER HEATHEN

There’s that Chicken Licken advert where a guy is going about his day as a small orange monkey perched on his back grows bigger and

PATTEX 100%

Glossy, durable, flexible and perfect for fly tying. In Pattex 100% Platon Trakoshis believes he has found the ultimate fly tying glue for building baitfish

TAIL AND ERROR

Sizeable, visible, and seemingly impossible, there are few fish as infuriating as spotted grunter. As much as anyone can figure them out, a select few

A SPOTTED GRUNTER GEAR SHIFT

It’s the first of a three-morning stretch of epic grunter fishing and I don’t even know it yet. All I know is that two weeks prior I had a small taste of things to come.  A new fly pattern in hand, I knew I’d dialled their number. Now I wanted an answer.

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