Your Personal Catch & Release Record
The dilemma that every fly fisher faces at a TOPS Corporate Challenge will never change. The object of the weekend is to rekindle long-standing friendships that are all too often marginalized through digital communications. But, one is also expected to make an effort at the waters edge and contribute to your team’s scorecard, if for no other reasons than to justify your future invite. It’s a balancing act that is generally toppled at Notties on […]
It would be an understatement to say the festivities outweighed the fishing this last weekend, with the legendary Notties living up to it’s reputation as the pub with a exit that is impossible to find. The entrants certainly had more than one glass of not so serious at the start of this years TOPS Corporate Challenge, celebrating the 18th anniversary of SA’s premier fishing event. Whether the anglers were here to fish is a […]
Every fishing trip deserves a happy ending. It’s never guaranteed, but the prospect of success is what motivates the hunt to begin with. When we can’t fish, we resort to scratching the itch vicariously through reliable fishing reports, condensed nowadays into a single photo that has more thumbprints than an old Playboy magazine. Thankfully no one shares screens! Technology is a real curse when it comes to having your nose rubbed in someone else’s fishing accolades, […]
Bureaucrats in possession of a little power are not to be challenged and I really should know better. But in todays digital age, travelling on a valid passport and to be blocked at immigration just because there’s not enough space to rubber stamp defies rationale. This was my first obstacle in getting to fish in Northern Zambia, which by re-routing via Jhb I managed to overcome. The second was as unbelievable as it was hair […]
Finding a river that has not yet seen a fly, or any angler for that matter, is almost unheard of. Chances are, if you are hearing about any fishing, it is rarely first hand in this digital age and by virtue of the story itself, some if not many fisherman, have flayed the water before you. The quest to find virgin waters might prove more difficult than the pursuit of a vestal partner itself. So […]