A BREAM TO PASS THE TIME
5 April, 2020
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A few weeks before 2020 stuck its middle finger at us and the world turned to poo, I walked out onto a sand flat for
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A few weeks before 2020 stuck its middle finger at us and the world turned to poo, I walked out onto a sand flat for
“How can this be happening…” “And all this because people still eat weird shit” “How can one even begin to consider eating bats, civets, pangolins…Or
This has everything to do with fishing. All dressed up with nowhere to go in the time of COVID-19… Now that some of the dust
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
In my life river has always meant estuary. I’ve never been landlocked, so that definition never needed to change, until now. Rivers North and North-East
Spinning foam is nothing new (with the likes of Chicone’s Tuscan Bunny having been around for ages), but the technique has seen a massive resurgence
By Gerald Penkler “My flies are all way too big!” After two hard days working the turquoise waters, we had concluded that perhaps the King
It is always a nightmare preparing a fly box for a foreign destination, especially if there’s a severe lack of internet information about the place
It was judgment day, Jimmy had a week left in the South before he had to leave on assignment to fight metal off Angola’s coast
Richard White of Black Rock Productions was good enough to share this epic little showreel of a mission they recently did into Lesotho… “Scotty (@cartel_flyfishing) did
A story about rainbow trout caught on the surface at night By Dale Hes Fly fishing has an incredible way of completely smashing all your
I met Daniel a month before I left the Seychelles. I had been living on Praslin for a couple of years and had caught my
This short piece on catch and release fly fishing in our estuaries was published on the Red Bull website: While studying the giant mud prawn Ewan
Long the dream of those who chase grunter, the fabled prawn is a phenomenon that occurs in South Africa’s estuaries and lagoons. Kevin Flanagan and
(This is the fourth and final post on Peter Brigg and Ed Herbst’s new book, South African Fishing Flies – available on Amazon.com) The Sand
Intellectual capital – only those who know are allowed to go… “Nobody owns the ocean. But you own the intellectual capital you have earned with
Metaphysical aside, those dark hours between 3am and sunrise are my Dreamtime. Pretty freakin’ fortunate then that our much-treasured dusky kob (Argyrosomus japonicus) share similar early morning habits. At least when they enter our estuaries to party.
A photo essay about the tropical flats fishes of Alphonse and St. Francois atolls (Seychelles) Text by Leonard Flemming (the uncut version) Photos by Leonard
The hunt for Giant Trevally in the surf, south of the 26th parallel of latitude is what first got me to Kosi. Somewhere in my
It’s a “secret” valley high up in the Southern Berg that I have written about several times before. I even named my blog after the
