My family has been visiting Wavecrest hotel for more than forty years. It is where I went on my summer holidays when I was a kid, and I have many happy memories from the place. I did a trip there a couple of weeks […]

‘…..and don’t panic!’ is a phrase that your fishing guide will advise when you hook into a Trophy fish just before the pandemonium erupts. The problem is that when someone tells you not to panic it usually means t […]

Yellow fever is not to be trifled with.

It starts off with mild itching, that at some stage you have to scratch, which needless to say only makes it worse. Pretty soon your heart is racing and before you know […]

You blink and the year has gained a momentum that leaves you wondering if the holidays were just a figment of your imagination. For every family man or those unfortunate enough to be committed to a partner who […]

Reflecting on a fishing year can be quite frustrating when you consider the hours you have actually spent fishing versus the time you undertook to give yourself at the beginning of the season.

Excuses there are […]

The Orange river, forming the boundary between the Northern Cape and the Free State, is many miles from the ocean yet its flow fluctuates daily. While it appears to be tidal, this fluctuation is in fact man made. […]

What draws any angler to a piece of water seems like a simple answer. I mean, if there weren’t any fish to be had, why would we bother? How’s the fishing been, is the leading question, but what we really wan […]

Waiting for the turn of the season is what you do as fly fishermen, knowing that with each one, a particular species will appear on our radar.
And whilst we couldn’t claim to be men of all seasons, come Winter i […]

Winter offshore fishing on the KZN South Coast can be exceptional, or it can be tough. It all depends on the sardine run activity and sea conditions at the time. A few weeks back there were some fantastic GT […]

An Enthusiasm……..A Festivity………An Anecdote…..pick any one, because each would be appropriate to describe the atmosphere at the 3rdLeg of the TOPS Corporate Challenge.

Watching captains of industry and […]