Over the past ten years I’ve been fortunate enough to visit many venues along the coast of Mozambique, all of which have looked promising from a fishing perspective. Yet the sad truth is that the burgeoning population of the country and their dependence on the bounty of theocean has had a dramatic effect on these fisheries. No self respecting recreational angler could begrudge a man putting supper on the table, but this coupled with reports of […]

My earliest memories and first experience of Africa was the Kruger National Park. Back in the seventies on the lap of my father in a good old Kombi, inching along the dirt roads, eyes peeled, willing a Lion or Leopard to jump out.  So when Danie Pienaar, head of scientific services for SAN Parks, invited us to join his team on an exploratory study of the Sabie River, my bags couldn’t have been packed faster. […]

What a weekend… 4 seasons in 48 hours… It certainly separated the rabid fly fishers from the fair weathered fisherman. And a lot of Partycipation at the TOPS Corporate Challenge as one has come to expect from this fly fishing festival. These gatherings are never short of a fishing story about losing big fish, but the sympathy card was definitely drawn by Richard Scott of Team Afriguide Logistics  who, having caught a beast that would have […]

The qualifying legs of the TOPS Corporate Challenge are now complete, after 1364 obliging trout having been caught and released so far. The festivities typically were the focal point, with Partycipation accounting for a lot more energy output than the actual fishing.   This last leg accounted for 449 specimens, with Gavin Cowell, landing a 61cm Rainbow, taking not only the biggest fish, but also Top angler for his individual quota points of 10240. The […]