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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The relatively new technique of slow pitch jigging has arrived in South Africa. It seems that shore based slow pitch jigging has gained traction first, particularly in KZN. Offshore slow pitch jigging is now […]

Last week we were fishing at Nqabara Eco River Lodge in the Transkei. We had a variety of weather situations to deal with while we were there, and it was interesting to see how the fish were affected by the […]

Trip report from our trip on the 12th to the 17th of October 2020, to a section of the orange river below Augrabies falls and above the Richtersveld. I have just got back from the Orange river, where we […]