The Craft The Craft presents a film about Gordon Van Der Spy, “The feather mechanic”, a master fly tyer who gives us his thoughts and philosophy on the craft of fly fishing and his passion for fly tying. Shot on location at the African Waters, Makhangoa Community Camp in Lesotho a country in the highlands...
Shuttlecock Next up in our smallmouth yellowfish flies series is the famous shuttlecock. Shuttlecocks are a simple dry fly pattern which are very popular in the UK and Europe. The magic of shuttlecocks is the way they sit in the water and not on the water. All of the flotation is provided by the cdc...
Fishing in Lesotho A second week on at the Makhangoa Community Camp offered up a gin-clear and low river for the guests to enjoy. After a very successful first week fishing in Lesotho on the Bokong river with high catch numbers on dry fly, things were looking good for a fresh group of clients. The...
Lesotho After an expected 4 hour drive became a 6 hour drive through the scenic mountain roads of Lesotho, the first group of the Makhangoa 2022 season arrived in camp. After a long day on the road Rob, Jan, Nitzan and Lindsay eagerly drove into camp. They were greeted by all the guides and camp...
Tanzanian tiger fish With the way of the season, incredibly, improving each week; it was no surprise that the guide team were excited for the penultimate week of the Tanzanian tiger fish season to commence. The second to last week of the season welcomed an all American group of guests for one of the prime...
Tiger Fishing Week 8 welcomed the X-Factor Angling team as they made their annual tiger fishing trip into the Kilombero Valley. What was to unfold was truly something no one could’ve scripted. This blog will in no way do it justice. The week started off with an absolute bang, the experience of Greg Ghaui and...
Klinkhammer With summer in full swing in southern Africa, we thought now would be a good time to share some of our absolute favourite patterns to use when sight-fishing to smallmouth yellowfish at the Makhangoa Community Camp in Lesotho. First up in this short series is one of our absolute favourite patterns – The Klinkhamer. The...
Largemouth Yellowfish Flies In all our groups prior to this one, we had most of our success coming from swinging largemouth yellowfish flies from faster water into slower moving eddy’s where we believed fish would be holding. This time however things were different. Majority of the fish were caught by accurately placing flies behind boulders...
Nymphing With high temperatures and low water levels, the 2nd last drift of the 2022 Kalahari season was shaping up to be a cracker. Hitting the water on Day 1 we were very surprised when by lunch time we had only managed to pull out a Barbel and a small smallmouth yellowfish . Never the less...
Big Fish As we get into the later stages of the Orange River season the sun rises over the valley a lot earlier, making it much easier to spring out of your tent in the early morning. This drift there was a clear change in temperature which eliminated the crisp cool mornings that we had...
