Having visited Matoya in June, I was surprised to get the opportunity to head back there a month later. The water levels had dropped by at least a metre and there was an open spot on a trip going up there. The lodge owners contacted us and asked if I would like to come along, they didn’t have to ask twice! I was super keen to get another crack at this fantastic area, and to […]

Just back from an awesome trip to the upper Zambezi. Winter is definitely the best time for that part of the river, where the floodplains are drying up and baitfish are being forced back into the main river. It seems that all the big tigers gather there and are hungry and aggressive. This year I had the great priviledge of taking my Dad as my guest angler, and we stayed at the fantastic new Matoya […]

I was recently invited to join the Wildfly crew on an epic expedition on South Africa’s largest river, the Orange River in the Northern Cape. The guys were to be fishing with fly, but invited me to come and try my hand at seeing what I could get to eat artificial lures in the Orange. The part of the river that we were headed for is just below Augrabies falls. Our journey started with a […]

Fishtube’s Roam Free T-shirt was recently spotted wandering around the world’s largest and most famous fish market in Tokyo! Janet Britton from Pennington visited Japan and paid a visit to the Tokyo Fish Market, wearing her Roam Free T-shirt. Way to go Janet, for flying the catch and release colours at the heart of the issue!

I had the good fortune to do a trip to Sterkfontein Dam during February this year. I went with the intention of catching some of the smallmouth yellows on fly and seeing if I could get regular catches of them on artificial lure, on light spinning gear. Driving in to Quantani, where we were to be based, we crossed over a little bridge which crossed a stream that feeds in to the dam. We stopped […]