Our issue 6 rapid-fire catchup with the Orange River OG, Taba “West” Phiri of Kalahari Outventures, whom you’ll usually find guiding clients into big fish in the pristine Kalahari Largemouth Yellowfish Conservancy in the Northern Cape. 5 best things about guiding on the Orange River? The river is pristine and untouched. Pure wilderness, wild and [...]
IT'S ALL VERY WELL HAVING A SPECIAL VALLEY AND BIG FISH (browns, rainbows and yellows), but without community and sustainability there’s no point. Off the back of our Issue 4 story (The Legend of F#@k You Valley), we chatted to Tourette Fishing’s Rob Scott, Keith Clover and Ed Truter about the Bokong River and their [...]
As fly fishers we are always dialed into the weather. Seasonal changes are picked up almost as second nature and as a hatch junkie , I get a strange excitement stirring inside , when almost subconsciously I become aware that the sky starts to lose its summer haze. There's dew in the morning , a [...]
On the Highveld our warm season has been a case of famine or feast. Spring didn't last long as the drought conditions put strain on the streams and the fish. Even our tailwater fishery below the Barrage took strain. One fish that's not put off by low flows and high temps are carp. They regularly popped [...]
Similar to last year the Autumn on the Highveld is lingering longer than usual and we are experiencing wonderful warm days in late May. This can of course change very quick with the arrival of serious cold fronts. But for now the days are balmy with little wind , which is great for fish and [...]
Two months ago a massive flood tore through the Groot River valley. Taking with it live stock, dam walls, the works. The river level rose 7 meters in parts. I feared that all my Yellowfish and the beautiful little runs that make up our river section would be destroyed. It took with it all three [...]
I would describe my first trip to the Lesotho highlands as satisfying. The fishing was slow due to a huge thunderstorm, which capped the mountain tops in snow and chilled the Bokong River on the day of my arrival. Although the fishing was no walk in the park (the previous trip can be viewed at: http://feathersandfluoro.com/?p=6411), the yellowfish were [...]
Text and photos by Leonard Flemming Lesotho had been on my short-list of places to visit for a very long time. The unique landscape and the wild trout fishing were the obvious reasons, but then Tourette Fishing started publishing mouth-watering photographs of smallmouth yellowfish trips on the Bokong River above Katse Dam. So when I had the [...]
Yellowfish really are the true freshwater bonefish. They pull unlike anything else in the fresh. This system was flooded a year ago and I was curious to see where the fish held and relocated. As expected they are in the runs above the deepest pools. Some in extremely shallow water. This guy charged up a [...]
