Beating the system
The merits of having a sure-fire system to predict or achieve good fly fishing.
9 September 2020
Late winter Browns
A day on a stillwater towards the end of winter, trying different tactics; the shoreline and a float tube, until I get the formula right and start catching the fish I was after.
29 August 2020
Haig Brown, video and changing seasons
Exploring Skues, and Haig-Brown, and contrasts in flyfishing and seasons draws to the question: Could video help bring old fishing books alive?
27 August 2020
A bank fishing interlude
A short (11 min) video, in which I share an afternoon’s fly fishing on a local lake.
15 August 2020
A fisherman’s philosophy …..in quotes
Exploring the richness of fly fishing literature and how it immerses the soul.
13 August 2020
Freedom of a captivated mind
The Morphew family, a shot down plane over Libya, and Trout in 2020
6 August 2020
27 July 2020
Winter Stillwater Photo Essay
A collection of images from my stillwater winter flyfishing season
22 July 2020
9 July 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