Gold, Greed and Grandpas
Neville Nuttall’s flyfishing novel “Proud River” and why it was insightful
6 September 2025
The movers: Loch Leven Trout in the Letort and the uMngeni
Exploring Frog water on the Letort and the uMngeni, a Trout migration theory.
10 January 2023
12 December 2022
You Bastards!
Contemplating the state of our countryside and its wildlife. Dealing with the sorrow of environmental loss. Hoping and doubting.
11 February 2022
25 January 2022
Drunken deaf narratives
Divulging the subtleties and hidden threads in a recent flyfishing essay
27 October 2021
Lessons from the landscape: What did he say?
Exploring the ecological and social interconnectedness up and down the uMngeni River
18 September 2020
Sneaky!
It was the 18th April 1999. Guy and I were fishing the uMngeni on Brigadoon, on what my fishing log describes as “Blacks Water”. That was the section of river above the confluence of the Furth Stream, and at some time not long past, it had been the farm of John Black, and if memory serves, Derek Fly had bought it or taken it over, and its length was now added to the beat known to us as Brigadoon. At that time all the riverside lands from the Furth confluence up to Picnic Pool were planted to maize, and the
14 June 2020
Taking care of Comfort
I took a picture of the confluence of the Furth Stream and the Umgeni and prepared to sent it via whatsapp it to my friend George. George and I had met in the pharmacy that morning; he with a headache of undeclared origin (I suggested he reconsider his whiskey brand) and me stocking up on kidney pills. He had asked about the river clarity. Everyone has been asking that this week….they want to get on some trout water on the weekend. I said I would send a picture later. While I was typing the explanation of the clean water from
27 February 2020
