Your Personal Catch & Release Record
After 20 years of watching fly fishers pit their wits against the wiles of feral Trout, you would think that we’ d seen it all, yet every year at the TOPS Corporate Challenge something happens that beggars belief. Usually it’s antics off the field that never fail to amuse and provide anecdotes that decades later still have us in stitches. We’ve had anglers take on Jersey bull’s ( no prizes for who came off 2nd […]
How smart do you think fish really are? I mean it’s not as if they’ve managed to crawl out the water……yet we seem to spend an inordinate amount of time trying to figure them out. There’s a lot to consider when throwing a fly at a fish and some might say a little too many variables when it comes to the temperamental movements of Trout So what is real food for thought and what is […]
To tube or not to tube is a shouldn’t be a dilemma. Although targeting Trout from the bank and stalking a fish is the way to go on arrival at any dam (as long as you get their at the proverbial crack of), to not jump in your float tube when fishing any decent sized dam is just limiting your options. The design of any established still water means that accessibility is limited from the […]
Unlike the upper reaches of the largest river that empties into the Indian Ocean, as you cruise down stream, fishing in the lower Zambezi is more focussed on what you can see and throw at. Below Kariba the river spreads into many channels, with the largely controlled flow rate from this tailwater creating permanent islands, and as the water gradually erodes the banks, it fells the mighty trees that litter the bank. The net result […]
It’s been a bit of a mother-in-law year, in that we all want to see the back of it, but we can’t honestly say that we haven’t learned a lot from the last 12 months. This time last year, murmurs of a new contagion once again emanating from behind the great wall were rife, but it wasn’t anything new to be taken seriously…Bird Flu, Swine Flu, hell it might as well have been DonkeyKong Flu […]