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 […]

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 […]

To tube or not to tube is a shouldn’t be a dilemma.
Although targeting Trout from the bank and stalking a fish is the way to go on arrival at any dam (as long as you get their at the proverbial crack of), to n […]

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 […]