What a weekend… 4 seasons in 48 hours… It certainly separated the rabid fly fishers from the fair weathered fisherman.
And a lot of Partycipation at the TOPS Corporate Challenge as one has come to expect from this fly fishing festival.
These gatherings are never short of a fishing story about losing big fish, but the sympathy card was definitely drawn by Richard Scott of Team Afriguide Logistics who, having caught a beast that would have seen him walking away with a R250 000 Explorer Ski Boat from Yamaha, couldn’t keep it in his net and this monster of a Brown Trout somersaulted away from him, as reported by his fellow contestants.
Despite the miserable conditions an impressive 437 Trout made it to the net, which coupled with fish landed in the qualifying legs brought the tally to 1801 catches.
The tagged fish would have seen someone driving away in a brand new Jeep Wrangler, but despite 16 anglers putting in 20 hours of fishing, this R450 000 fish is still swimming in the WildFly waters.
The largest fish was caught by Neil Westerhoff from the Paarl Media team, a 63cm Rainbow Trout earning himself a brand new Quintrex Boat for such a magnificent specimen.
The final scores saw team Stealth taking the Bronze, the Zimmerframes narrowly missing out on the title( by a single fish) and Team Suthile being crowned as the 2015 TOPS Corporate Challenge Champions.
As such, he is included not as a Guide in terms of the someone who can give you any indispensable tuition or direction, but to provide us with some fishing tales from the events that WildFly hosts and of course from the locations that the the WildFly team happen to be filming.
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