I’ve never considered fly fishing to be a competitive sport, amongst anglers that is. It’s the fish you have to battle with after all, so another fly fisher can only really be considered company on the wat […]

It’s not often that you see anglers return from the water with very little to say, especially if they have even less to show for their efforts. To say the fly fishing was tough in the 3rd leg of the TOPS C […]

For once the naysayers, me included, got it completely wrong.
We always watch any incoming weather with trepidation and automatically assume the worst especially when we see a front looming.
And we had every […]

After 20 years of watching fly fishers pit their wits against the wiles of feral Trout, you would think that we’ d seen it all, yet every year at the TOPS Corporate Challenge something happens that beggars b […]

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 […]

How smart do you think fish really are?
I mean it’s not as if they’ve managed to crawl out the water……yet we seem to spend an inordinate amount of time trying to figure them out.
There’s a lot to consider […]

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 […]