In issue 21 Tim Leppan wrote about 'The Foam Dungeon,' his go-to articulated streamer for largemouth and Clanwilliam yellowfish. Here's Tim with the Step-By-Step. "After sharing this pattern with a group of mates, I received a lot of questions back about how one ties it and how to fish it. In saying that, I thought [...]
Over the last few days I tied a small army of Skeleton Minnows to try out on our larger, more aggressive yellowfish and bass over the next year or so. In the process of tying them I enjoyed playing with different colours of flexo tubing, fluorescent beads (which may add the desired colour and weight [...]
When Frontier Fly Fishing brought out a bunch of new rods from their in-house brand Horizon, we stuck our hands up to conduct some long-term reviews. There was definitely an element of nostalgia behind such a magnanimous display of selfless volunteerism. Many of us still have or have had Horizons. It’s been around a while [...]
While bored at home and dreaming about fishing for yet another day during 'lockdown' I took out my fly tying stuff (again) and fiddled with streamers for our yellowfishes...After spending an entire morning in front of my vise (while trying to keep the kids happy in between, cooking breakfast and lunch for them and feeding [...]
A pic dump of a typical Orange River trip to the Largemouth Yellowfish Conservancy with Kalahari Outventures Photographs by: Garth Wellman, Matt Gorlei, Christian Fry, Leonard Flemming and Kalahari Outventures Guest anglers featured: Bertu Barnard, Lloyd Priestman, Garth Wellman, Christian Fry, Leonard Flemming Check the full story in Issue 20 of The Mission
A story by Leonard Flemming from issue 20 about a private yellowfish conservation plan “One day when I’m big I want to be a nature conservationist.” That was my stock standard answer in primary school whenever new teachers posed the time-tested ice breaker question to calm a class full of ankle-biters and win their hearts. [...]
5 best things about where you guide? The team, aka Die Ous, aka The A-TEAM. We’re the best. It is really a blessing to have been chosen to work with them. The desert environment I work in, including Tutwa Lodge, Augrabies National Park and the many special places around it. It’s mind blowing, the huge [...]
Matt Gorlei of FlyBru has been workling with the Kalahari Outventures guys for a few years now. He got in touch to share the latest video he's made of catching smallmouth and largemouth yellows on Flexo/Alphlexo crabs on the Orange river. "We had the week off last week due to a group of clients [...]
I had obviously packed everything that could possibly fit into my car for the 4 day Orange River Largemouth Yellowfish Conservancy drift with Kalahari Outventures, but besides your general fishing tackle and your favourite polarised sunglasses, there were a few items that I found particularly handy: Osprey Transporter 130 l duffel bag The Osprey [...]
I recently returned from my annual trip on the lower Orange river and when people ask me what I love about fishing I usually simply take them through a day on the Orange. You float down a deserted river with zero contact with the outside world for 6 days enjoying nature in all her splendor, [...]
