It was another ice cold morning of full sunshine in the Cape. My nose was blocked and sinuses aching from a cold I couldn’t shake….
While fishing with Alec Gerbec in Alphonse I quizzed him about the Alphlexo crab pattern and how it was different to the better known Flexo…
The first time I saw a Cape gurnard that was caught on fly was on Peter Coetzee’s old site, Born to Fly Fish. I got…
I sat in the sun, uncomfortable amongst poking sticks. A few carp, maybe five, were feeding hard stirring up a mud cloud below my perch…
The following feature was published on the Red Bull website: A permit is not (only) something you need to legally be on the water. It…
This is the 3rd post on a series of articles that will focus in part on ethics of fishing and modern progression in fly fishing…
The following informative article about catching bluefin trevally around Alphonse Island was published in Africa’s Original Fly Fishing Magazine: Ewan Naude and I had barely…
A few posts ago I discussed various knots and flies that were recommended to me for tropical saltwater fly fishing and more specifically (or in…
A few people have been on my case about a step-by-step (SBS) article on the Falloon. I am now convinced that it is a great…
In this final instalment preceding a trip to Alphonse and St Francois atolls in the Seychelles, I’d like to elaborate on my thoughts about suitable…
