The Feathers & Fluoro crew have been hard at work testing out a selection of new gear, tackle and other clobber. More in-depth reviews will run in up-coming issues of The Mission, but for now here are a few first impressions. ECHO - PRIME 8-weight (seen in action above with a Garden Route grunter) [...]
When you are used to catching normal-sized trout in normal places, visiting Jurassic Lake in Patagonia (full story in issue 20), feels like a journey into a parallel world. To put it bluntly, our minds were blown. Massive fish, in their hundreds, caught on dry flies, nymphs, streamers, deerhair mice and whatever else we threw [...]
Ever since we featured Riverhorse Nakadate in issue 17 of The Mission, we've been waiting with great anticipation for this short film to come out. https://youtu.be/ZR_69AnAg1Y Shot by the inimitable Tony Czech and narrated by Riverhorse, it covers his exploration of The Boundary Waters of Northern Minnesota - a vast area of lakes and [...]
A haircut? A mindset? Or, a fish? If you visit the Rio Irigoyen, you’re pretty certain to be looking for sea trout but, if Neptune smiles upon you, there’s an outside chance you might catch this beauty, the róbalo AKA Falklands mullet. Tom Clinton,* store manager of Farlows in London, encountered these fish recently. In [...]
Elevate your braai/grilling/asado game, with Patagonian-style crucified lamb South Africans have braais, Americans have BBQs, Ozzies have Barbies, Brits have tea, and Argentina has the legendary asado. Sure, it’s a general style of grilling, parts of which are not that dissimilar to what you might make at home on a continent far, far away but [...]
Featuring Patagonia head honcho Yvon Chouinard and Arturo Pugno, one of the last remaining practitioners of 'pesca alla Valsesiana' an ancient Tenkara-like form of fly fishing from Northern Italy that involves a 15-foot cane rod (homemade obviously), lines meticulously braided from the tail of a stallion, and simple flies hand-tied flies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdXIHsGgIQM
Day Eleventy-Three. We're heading into week five (we think) of lockdown in South Africa and while we're going just as loopy as anyone else with the cabin fever and the same-sameness of each day, we know it's the right thing to do. Fortunately, to entertain, inspire and amuse us, there's a shitload of great stuff [...]
All you need is just one more excuse You put up one hell of a fight I want to hear your very best excuse Never felt this much alive TRACK 4: THE GENTLE ART OF MAKING ENEMIES BEAT 2: THE AQUARIUM "Right at the beginning of our first afternoon session on the river beat we [...]
Channeling a beloved ‘90s metal album, Tudor Caradoc-Davies visits Jurassic Lake Lodge in Patagonia and loses his mind. "I think about Faith No More’s 1995 album King for a Day… Fool for a Lifetime, a lot. I only became acquainted with it in 2003 when I spent a year in Germany washing dishes, playing rugby [...]
Writer, fly fisherman, surfer, musician and traveller, Riverhorse Nakadate in our The Mission issue 17 interview. "I think it was the surfer Miki Dora who once said that a local is simply someone who doesn’t have their shit together enough to travel. Amen to that. I’ve been working away on a few environmental fly fishing [...]
