Never has so few been caught by so many. To say that the fishing was slow on the last leg of the TOPS Corporate Challenge, would be like calling Leicester City’s premier league win predictable…….which the Trout clearly were not. Sixty anglers toiled and when in the very first session the talents of Jeremy Rochester and Mark Yelland did not produce the goods, the writing was on the wall. The weather was ideal, […]
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Off to a Flying Start….
Only once in a Blue Moon does a weekend’s angling outstrip expectations. And this is made all the more difficult when it’s the benchmark of a TOPS Corporate Challenge. To state categorically that it was the Party of the year would be like calling the All Black rugby team reasonably good……it was Epic! The four man teams always arrive in fine spirits on the Thursday evening, but this atmosphere seemed to compound every day until the hilarious […]
Midlands Trout Season
The first frosts of the season is something worth celebrating from a Winter fishing perspective. It is a time in which the Trout embrace the colder water temperatures and feed a little more aggressively before they switch into spawning mode. We have started to record minus degree Celius mornings here in the Midlands, with the crisp air ushering in the welcome change. It’s time to check the waders for untimely leaks, dust off those […]
Restored Faith
Over the past ten years I’ve been fortunate enough to visit many venues along the coast of Mozambique, all of which have looked promising from a fishing perspective. Yet the sad truth is that the burgeoning population of the country and their dependence on the bounty of theocean has had a dramatic effect on these fisheries. No self respecting recreational angler could begrudge a man putting supper on the table, but this coupled with reports of […]
Yellow Fever
That we are in a severe drought there can be no debate. The dam levels of what has become known as SA’s premier small mouth yellow fishery are at levels not seen in decades. Couple this with a howling North Easterly that swung to a South West and fishing this massive body of water was not for the feint hearted. But the die hard anglers that crack the nod to the Yamaha Yellow fish Invitational […]