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 […]

There are two species of triggerfish that are hunted by fly fishermen on the shallow flats of Indian Ocean atolls. The yellow margin triggerfish and the larger titan triggerfish. Both of these fish are […]

While fishing at Zambia’s Matoya Lodge recently, on the upper Zambezi river, the wind got up quite strongly and the tigers went off the bite.
After some hours of fruitless casting at tigers that weren’t int […]

When it comes to catching big tigerfish, one of the most important considerations is to fish in remote areas that don’t get a huge amount of fishing pressure.
The Barotse floodplains area on the upper Zambezi i […]

Covid 19 has cost us a year and a half in fishing experiences.
For the past 18 months or so we have been unable to travel out of the country and this has impacted on us fishermen.
There are places that we have […]

Those of us who are fathers, all go through the process of watching our kids grow up and develop into the young people that they are destined to become. There are various rites of passage which stand out during […]

On my recent trip to Wavecrest Hotel in the Transkei I was fishing mostly with paddletails, but I spent a bit of time fishing with bait as well.
My Dad, at the age of 81, is a bait fisherman, who loves […]

I have just returned from a magical trip to Wavecrest hotel in the Transkei, where I spent some time casting paddletails for kob in the surf and had some good success when conditions were right. I also learnt a […]

While we were on the Breede river last week I decided to try some different approaches to catching grunter. We were there over a neap tide, so the currents weren’t particularly strong and the water was quite c […]