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A resource for those wanting to flyfish the Upper Umgeni River in KZN. Right click on this link to access a comprehensive pdf document packed with information useful to fly fishermen: trout-on-the-doorstep-rev-3-20171.pdf
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Truttablog is a "Trout centric" journal, in which I seek to highlight South Africa as a fly-fishing destination. In particular I write about my home waters of the Kwa-Zulu Natal province, which seem to receive little press. Recent moves by authorities in South Africa, are threatening to close down Trout hatcheries, ban the practice of catch and release, and in other ways see the demise of a species, entirely without good reason.
I hope that in some small way, my writing will amplify the pleasure and importance of fly-fishing for Trout in South Africa, and in so doing will act as a counter weight to this turning wheel.
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I wonder if my grandfather – J. H. Yates – walked that very bank?
April 11, 2019 at 8:53 pm
Indeed! The records suggest that he probably did fish here between 1937 and 1940 when he was posted to East London….
April 18, 2019 at 2:31 am
First I saw a beautiful fishing scene, then I noticed an anxious angler trying to calm a greenish lynx
April 11, 2019 at 6:06 pm
Ah…yes..I see that greenish Lynx….but I assure you Roger: It is just a bush, and Rhett was scanning for Rainbows in the clear water of the Bokspruit!
April 18, 2019 at 2:32 am