Your Personal Catch & Release Record
In August this year, twenty-two excited anglers made their way by road and air (on Airlink) from all corners of South Africa to the quaint town of Augrabies in the Northern Cape. The recently revamped Augrabies Falls Lodge was to be the setting of the 4-day inaugural NCTA Augrabies Falls Fly Invitational.
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 […]
On my recent trip to Wavecrest Hotel in the Transkei I was fishing mostly with paddletails, but I spent a bit of time fishing with bait as well. My Dad, at the age of 81, is a bait fisherman, who loves targeting edibles from the rocks. Standing next to him on the rocks waiting for a bite gave us plenty of time to chat, and amongst the various wisdoms imparted, he told me how much […]
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 […]
I have just returned from a magical trip to Wavecrest hotel in the Transkei, where I spent some time casting paddletails for kob in the surf and had some good success when conditions were right. I also learnt a bit, as I do every time I fish, and a few more pieces of the kob spinning puzzle fell into place. Conditions weren’t on our side when we first arrived and for the first few days […]