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Exploring a favourite river stretch, and planning for the coming Trout river season.

14 August 2023

One fly, one date, two rivers, a year and many miles apart.

11 April 2023

Exploring beads, bobbers and other other affronts to our idiosyncratic sense of flyfishing aesthetics.

7 March 2023

Mucking about at the vice

27 February 2023

Contemplating threads, scissors, hooks and tails

28 December 2022

Truttablog has been going for ten years!

12 December 2022

Divulging the subtleties and hidden threads in a recent flyfishing essay

27 October 2021

Playing around with some high float materials in a hopper pattern

7 April 2021

Several months of obsessing over flyfishing the trout streams in KZN, are neatly framed by two ant hatch interludes on stillwater.

3 April 2021

An abundant, lush summer, trout streams, stillwaters and the pleasures of flyfishing.

12 December 2020