GREG CARSTENS REPORTS ON A RECENT TRIP TO THIS WONDERFUL VENUE Text and images by Greg Carstens One of the great things about being a fly fisherman is the endless pursuit of new places. This year fortune favoured us and we found ourselves in the Eastern Cape Highlands. Our hosts…

Dean Riphagen reports from a trip to Highland Lodge where he had some of the best fly fishing of his life when he took a party of Frontier Fly Fishing clients to this amazing venue! Says Dean: The fishing was phenomenal – probably the best stillwater fishing I’ve had in…

I think fly fishing has the potential to be much more an appetite of the mind than a just a physical pursuit... On Small streams, bamboo and the meaning of life. By Ian Cox I recently attended the Rhodes Wild Trout Festival. It is something I try to fit into…

  My cousins are farmers in the Indezi valley. The Indezi valley for those who do not know it, is the valley the N3 follows between the Lions River and Nottingham Road turn offs. It’s a little stream made smaller by the depredations the golf course resort at Boschoek and…

Text and images by George Brits If you had to design the perfect stillwater, you would probably not go wrong if you modelled your answer on the Aquarium dam at Leliekloof. In summer it has a thick seam of weed beds that runs around most of the stillwater and harbours…

The Time travelling road – Going Gonzo in the North Easter Cape There is a particular piece of road in the Eastern Cape that defies the bounds of time. Many roads like it exist, and each person has their own stretches of road that don't seem to adhere to basic…

Ed Herbst reports from Rhodes that the annual Wild Trout Association Epson Fly Fishing Festival was held at Walkerbouts Country Inn in the Eastern Cape village from 20 to 23 March – and proved to be a great success. The Fly Fishing Festival was first held in 1996 and has…

Steven Dugmore sent this intriguing clip of a good rainbow feeding in the JDT's This is one of the most beautiful streams on earth and is in the Western Cape, not far from Worcester.

THE HOT SPOT By Ian Cox One of the many threads that bind all fly fishers is our shared faith in a hot fly which we can turn to when the fishing is not.  It is true that we do not all place our faith in the same fly even…

The lazy photographer Text and Images by George Brits Click to enlarge images Maybe it’s age creeping in, or maybe it is that the lenses have become bigger with the years, but the one thing that is near impossible to do is to use a camera with a 500mm or…