My earliest memories and first experience of Africa was the Kruger National Park. Back in the seventies on the lap of my father in a good old Kombi, inching along the dirt roads, eyes peeled, willing a Lion or Leopard to jump out.  So when Danie Pienaar, head of scientific services for SAN Parks, invited us to join his team on an exploratory study of the Sabie River, my bags couldn’t have been packed faster. […]

What a weekend… 4 seasons in 48 hours… It certainly separated the rabid fly fishers from the fair weathered fisherman. And a lot of Partycipation at the TOPS Corporate Challenge as one has come to expect from this fly fishing festival. These gatherings are never short of a fishing story about losing big fish, but the sympathy card was definitely drawn by Richard Scott of Team Afriguide Logistics  who, having caught a beast that would have […]

The qualifying legs of the TOPS Corporate Challenge are now complete, after 1364 obliging trout having been caught and released so far. The festivities typically were the focal point, with Partycipation accounting for a lot more energy output than the actual fishing.   This last leg accounted for 449 specimens, with Gavin Cowell, landing a 61cm Rainbow, taking not only the biggest fish, but also Top angler for his individual quota points of 10240. The […]

But once they got onto the water, the Trout sure joined the party. 499 fish were caught and released with another 100 or so gate crashing, resulting in many long line releases. WildFly’s handicap system of only allowing a set number of fish to count in each fishing session, prevented stocky bashing from ruling the performance. In fact the overcast conditions saw a number of big fish making an appearance, with a dozen Trout in excess […]

You can never pay a good guide enough is a mantra that we live by, as the intel on any piece of water is half the battle in the war that we wage with the fly.   So when Rob Scott from Tourette Fishing invited us to their new camp in Lesotho, we leapt at the opportunity.The Journey into the Kingdom is both breathtaking and daunting, as you carefully navigate the sheer mountain passes that […]