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 n […]

I just got back from a trip down to the Breede river in the Western Cape. I went to target spotted grunter on surface lure, as it would be my last chance to do so before summer ends and the grunter fishing […]

The Twitch And The Pause.
The pause is one of the most important tools in a lure angler’s box of tricks. A lure stopped, whether on the surface, on the bottom, or hanging suspended, is often inhaled. If not o […]

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 […]

The last time I fished a Transkei estuary was during winter. It was a different experience, with clear, cool water and finicky fish. I was very happy to have an opportunity to go back to the Transkei last week […]

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 conta […]