Without the first frost of the season, you never really know how the Winter trout are going to react. Are the fish going to still be feeding and hence eating patterns that mimic what is to be found in the water or have they switched to bright attractors, taking the offering out of sheer spawning aggression? Every year it seems to move a few days forward, to the extent that ‘Jack’ only paid a visit […]

This benchmark event, now in it’s 20th year marks the opening of the still water Trout season, which 180 anglers religiously attend. It’s a non profit event, in so far as that all proceeds go towards the Kamberg Farmers Association and are utilized for conservation and community projects. Every farmer and his family in the Kamberg Valley gets involved, with the real spirit of Ubuntu, treating the fly fishers  to fantastic local cuisine and country […]

Big Game fishing is by definition the pinnacle of all forms of angling.Tales of fish that dwarfed the boats chasing them spurned every hunter on, until eventually every specimen had been catalogued and the hierarchy of game fish cemented. And so it came to be that the Billfish sit on top the species table and the pursuit of these legendary beasts still possesses every man with a rod in hand.If you haven’t experienced first hand […]

Sterkies never fails to educate and entertain. Every summer we make multiple pilgrimages when we know that the water temperature is optimum….which was the first lesson learned on this incredible body of water. It unequivocally the finest dry fly venue for small mouth yellow fish in South Africa…..if not the world. The small mouth yellow contrary to popular fly fishers belief is not just attuned to caddis or mayfly nymphs and the array of dries […]

 “Snapped up, hook straightened, stuck me in the weeds” are common overtures that you hear at any pub on a typical fishing weekend. “ Thepressure bottomed out and that darn Easterly blowing” can compliment these commiserations over a wee dram. There is no shortage of excuses when it comes to not catching fish! In fact a great idea for a Fishing smart phone App would be to produceoriginal explanations for why we failed on the […]