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Billy de Jong fights a monster 9 inch trout. Upper Lourens River Somerset West

 

and Season's Greetings to you all!

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Simply scroll down this home page to see the latest postings

Alan Hobson reports on major developments in fly fishing streams in the Karoo!

 

Six flies for the rest of my life- Stanton Hector reveals

AD Maddox - the last word in creative fly fishing art

Peter Brigg's six favourite small stream fly patterns!

Ace Italian fly fisher, Luca Montanari, shares his six most favourite stream patterns

LIGHT, BRIGHT HERMANUS VERMONT HOME FOR SALE!

READER'S IMAGES PART 15 - NEIL HAYES-HILL ON THE OKAVANGO AND ON HIS ART 

Ed Herbst back fishing again!

Agostino Roncallo's 'Speedy Caterpillar' pattern

 

Valentine Atkinson's brilliant fly fishing photography - a photo essay of some note!

Tom Lewin's return to Patagonia! - a photo essay

For sale or swap - Sage rod, Eclipse Reel, Rosenbauer's Small Streams

NOVEMBER 2011 NEWSLETTER - News from around the world!

Darryl Lampert's photo essay on the Bushman's and Lotheni rivers in KZN

 

Golden Dorado in Bolivia - Ruhan Neethling  shakes the imagination!

A day on the Witte - an ethereal brown trout stream. From Stanton Hector

with new pictures added by Liam Surridge to Stanton's article

 

Stealth rod, Orvis reel and line, Marryat fly box for sale

The amazing Kraai River Grand Slam! Tony Kietzman reports

 

Reader's Images Part 13 - New Zealand's South Island fron Ruhan Neethling and storm damage in Nottingham Road from Jan Korrubel

 

Don Phillips - The Everett Garrison of the space-age fly rod tells his story

Red Tag fools willow grub feeders!

From an artist in wood - Steve Boshoff

Don Phillips solid boron fly rods

Haernertsburg Trout Association Centenary

New Themed gallery - Bridges and weirs

G Loomis, Redington and Stealth Extreme salt water fly rods for sale

Agostino Roncallo's split-hackle dry flies - Quite brilliant!

Grizzly cape wanted in exchange for a Metz

A day on the upper Bushman's and Lotheni from Jan Korrubel - Reader's images

 

What stream trout eat

Photo essay on Birkhall Lake

For a larger view of these images see under 'Themed Galleries'

A Day on the Coldbrook - a photo-essay

The Mooi River scaly - our 'freshwater bonefish'?

 

The Molenaars River - Sharland Urquhart

MAGNETIC CHEST FLY HOLDER AND DRYER

SEPTEMBER IN RHODES AND UGIE - A PHOTO ESSAY

 

Loomis fly rod for sale

G-Loomis 10 Crosscurrent with XPLS Dorado Reel and Rio Intermediate line for R4500.

Contact Jaco Brenkman < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 071 501 7155 

Combining rock art with fly fishing and meeting Dawn Green

Fishing the Kola Peninsula - A brilliant photo-essay by Gerhard Laubscher

 

The making of a fly fisher and a return to Cape fly streams - Marcel Terblanche

Agostino Roncallo's fabulous palmer-hackled foam beetle patterns!

 

THE YEAR OF THE MOUSE - AND MONSTER BROWN TROUT - Ruhan Neethling

 

HANDMADE LANDING NETS - THE NEW WAVE

 

FLY FISHING RHODES - A GUIDED EXPERIENCE - BY TONY KIETZMAN

Soon to be released. The second edition of Hunting Trout, Enquiries to   This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  

PROFILE ON DAVE WALKER, FLY FISHING AND THE CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE

FLY FISHING FOR TIGERS IN THE ZAMBEZI! John Yelland reports on a significant sport

 

THIS HAS TO BE THE BEST WAY TO LEARN FLY TYING!

PHOTOGRAPHING INSECTS ABOVE AND BELOW THE WATER

 

Dimpling Trout in the Autumn Stream by Garret Evans

A DAY FISHING PONDS

READER'S IMAGES PART 12  - Including Len Olyott on estuarine brown trout in New Zealand, Agostino Gaglio's impression of the streams around Rhodes, David Kleyn on a Japanese stream from heaven, more fromTony Kietzman and form Jan Korrubel images of Nottingham Road under snow. 

THE GOOD DOCTOR'S BEETLE - Ed Herbst reports

 

IS THIS THE ULTIMATE ULTRA-LIGHT ROD LEADER FORMULA!? Stanton Hector believes it is!

 

Tying the Roncallo Special, an emerging nymph imitation

Thoughts on fly fishing Japan, the Yukon and Chile by David Kleyn

The Unity stream - a tributary of the Karnemelk

WILD TROUT ASSOCIATION WATERS TO STAY OPEN ALL YEAR ROUND - An official announcement

The Wild Trout Association's 20th anniversary

Wanted - Used Sage mid-flex 2 weight fly rod and Canon 10 -22 mm W/A lens - follow the link

Fly fishing in Rhodes this July - not for the faint hearted!

Johan Marais offers snake awareness courses 

31 July 2011 Newsletter - News from New South Wales and Japan, Edward Barder's bamboo gems, Cortland's Sylk fly lines and Paddy Starling's latest art works

The Oze River Japan

 

THE RETURN OF A VERY SPECIAL BAMBOO FLY ROD !  Article by Ed Herbst

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READER'S IMAGES PART 11 - JADE DOS SANTOS

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TYING THE TVN NYMPH AND A GLIMPSE AT THE HISTORY OF YELLOWFISH FLY FISHING IN SOUTH AFRICA

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A DTV DOCUMENTARY ON THE ORANGE RIVER FROM ITS SOURCE TO ITS MOUTH

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A ONCE OFF AUCTION OF SMALL STREAM RODS AND REELS BELONGING TO ED HERBST

GIJSBERT HOOGENDOORN FISHES RHODES AND BARKLY IN MID WINTER

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ED HERBST ON THE EFFTEX TACKLE TRADE EXHIBITION - Gear to drool over!!

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MARIO GELDENHUYS SHOWS US A GLIMPSE OF A NEWLY DISCOVERED FLY STREAM! But he's not talking...!

RANDOM THOUGHTS ON THINGS OF EXCELLENCE, BAMBOO FLY RODS AND SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE THEM

Pete Brigg's paragraph - July 2011

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Just posted Orvis Silver Label TL Mid-Flex 8’, 2-piece 1-wt rod, with Floating line and Redington Drift reel. All in “as new” condition. R2750

 

 

TERRIFIC TARPON FROM CUBA'S NORTH COAST - DEAN RIPHAGEN

A close up look South Africa's 'Fly of the century!' by Ed Herbst

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3 July newsletter  - A glimpse of Slovenia, Gary Glen-Young's latest baetis nymphs (UPDATED SINCE POSTED ON 3 JULY!), glass beads, micro tying threads, new cover for Hunting Trout, Sages new One rod!

 

AGOSTINO RONCALLO'S TWISTED BODY CDC MICRO-PATTERNS

READER'S IMAGES PART 10 - Fishing at Luneberg with Horst Filter, hunting tarpon in the USA with Gerhard Laubscher and archival shots of my favourite fly stream from Ed Herbst

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A THEMED GALLERY OF 40 OF MY ARTWORKS POSTED

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A rare glimpse of the Wolff and Cata Rivers in the Keiskammahoek area

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TYING AND FISHING THE MUDDLER MINNOW

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BENDING HOOKS FOR BETTER MAYFLY IMITATIONS!

12 JUNE 2011 NEWSLETTER

Many items of used fly tackle, camera gear, Manfrotto tripod and lenses and two almost complete magazine collections for sale have just been posted! 

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TYING THE PTN TO FRANK SAWYER'S ORIGINAL RECIPE

REVIEW OF JAY SMIT'S NEW J BOBBIN

 

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THE TANTILISING ART OF HALF-IN, HALF-OUT FLY FISHING PHOTOGRAPHY - 45 IMAGES FOR YOU TO CONSIDER!

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READER'S IMAGES - Part 10 - Gerrit Redpath in Rhodes

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 MY MAY 2011 FLY FISHING DIARY

Snow in Rhodes, new gadgets, two great books, ideas on fly fishing photography and more

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AGOSTINO RONCALLO'S PRACTICAL EXTENDED TUBE BODY MAYFLY IMITATIONS AND HOW TO MAKE THEM!

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FLY FISHING THE RHODES DISTRICT IN THE EASTERN CAPE HIGHLANDS - MAY 2011 - TEXT AND PHOTO ESSAY

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 My books, photographs and art

My added intention is to introduce the products I have for sale; my books, my photographs and my art. And then to share a little of my fly fishing with you and make that as close as possible to the real experience of fishing.

Monthly diary

I include a monthly diary, where I write not only a little pen sketch of the trips I take, but include a few of the more interesting photographs from these trips and from time to time I will have guest photographers add a few of their pictures as well.

Weekly news

I will send out a weekly email to subscribers to this site giving any points of fly fishing interest I come across, like fly tying tips, new tackle, interesting techniques, new books, events and general news.

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My favourite fly fishing venues

I also want to share some of my favourite fly fishing venues with you in the hope the site ends up something of a minor celebration of these wonderful fly fishing places. They will mainly be South African, but I am planning a trip to fish the Hampshire chalkstreams again at the end of July 2010 and will have four days in Iceland in the beginning of August.

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I will be adding new pictures regularly and will touch on fly fishing photography techniques and tips in my newsletters. I invite visitors to ask me how I took any photograph they particularly like, including what camera I used, what lens and what the settings were.