Ten Pound Trout takes the TOPS at SPAR Kamberg Trout Festival Pounds were invented for us fly fisherman, as were centimeters for that matter. When you talk about trout of half a meter, it grabs a person’s attention and double digit fish roaming in any dam is what drives us to any destination, let alone distraction. The TOPS at SPAR Kamberg Trout Festival is one of the oldest fly fishing gatherings on the calendar and […]

Competitive fly-fishing is a bit of a conundrum really.First of all, it’s hard to set your sights on your adversary when you can hardly see them and here I refer to the fish, not the angler with whom you are fishing, the morning after. Which begs the question what is the real target? The trout you’re trying to fool, or the fly fisherman you’ve been sharing a welcoming beverage with?One thing that every TOPS at […]

Fly fishing is a fickle mistress. One minute you are enjoying her warm embrace, each cast an artist’s brushstroke, your fly in absolute command of the trout’s attention. Then, moments later, every piece of vegetation assaults your fly line and the scorn on the face of the fish’s becomes apparent as your pattern gets the one finger salute. Frustrating it can certainly be at times, because the truth is that you can be doing everything […]

The TOPS at SPAR Corporate Challenge It would have taken a brave angler to predict that the 1st Leg results would be eclipsed this last weekend. Regardless of how ideal the weather conditions might have been or the caliber of fly fisher that harassed the trout – 594 rainbows, at an average of 12 fish per rod is a yardstick that will stand for some time……….famous last words, I hope! This event has for may […]

The Tops at Spar Corporate Challenge The problem with this fly fishing festival lies in the benchmark that it seems to continually raise every year.   In the eleven years that it has been hosted in the Natal Midlands, over eleven thousand fish have been caught and released in the WildFly waters. And, when you consider that out of the 240 rods that are supposed to be flogging the surface, a quarter of them spend […]