Your Personal Catch & Release Record
It’s the one calendar entry that keeps any fly addict awake at night with excitement, a fly fishing epic that will potentially go down as the greatest adventure of your life! It starts with months of planning, hours on Google Maps, and researching the internet, and culminates in a weekend of festivities, with a bit of fishing thrown in the mix and a lifetime of memories to take home. The difference between a good fishing […]
A species that is often overlooked by local flyfishing fanatics, I feel, is the Largemouth Bass. There is a contingent of trout hunters that see them as the enemy or a pest, especially when they share the habitat with our beloved stippled beauties. I’ll admit that on occasion, even I have cursed a green fish or two when it was not my intended quarry, more frustrated at my angling ability than the willing bass, I […]
I’ve been told that I can be stubborn… downright difficult at times, and it’s true I’m as stubborn as they come. I have always danced to my own tune and done so with conviction. I wish I could say that this attitude has forever served me well but I’d be lying. My pig-headedness stems from my proclivity for going against the grain and me trying to always be, the proverbial square peg. Maybe the music […]
We all know or have met someone who ranks somewhere on the alphabet of the “celebrity” scale and all of us, even the ones who deny it, will drop name at some point about these chance encounters. “Did I ever tell you about the time I had dops with the Mummy…? You know, that Saffa Hollywood actor Arnold Vosloo?” Or… “You know I bumped into Derek Watts at the airport once, hell of a lekker […]
It was mid-November and I was heading south to one of my favorite locations… As the last bit of concrete and steel from South Africa’s judicial capital disappeared in my rearview mirror and the horizon lit up with dancing illusions on the salt pans of the Great Karoo my mind drifted back to the places I’ve visited in the last 12 months. I was lucky enough to see some amazing and breathtakingly beautiful places but […]
