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September 11, 2019

Kalahari Largemouth Yellowfish 2019: Group 1

The Orange River, an endless ribbon of beauty snaking its way across almost half of the country. Her size, power and flare is forever noticeable. Not only does she boast with unreal scenery and breath-taking views, but offers us gold straight from her waters. This gold is what inspired weeks of planning

August 29, 2019

Nubian Flats, 2019 Season, Week 7 Blog

Another week of the season was about to commence and when your guest list shows, two South Africans, one from the UK, TWO Italians and one German, you know things are going to be interesting. Their expectations were met soon enough, with a GT over a meter being hooked and fought, unfortunately, the hooked popped...

April 17, 2019

Gabon 2019 – Week 3

Fly fishing at Sette Cama is certainly not your average day of casting flies to tailing fish. In contrast, you are blind fishing in pounding surf, often fighting wind, and a big portion of this is done mostly at night. So it’s most definitely not every fly fisherman’s cup of tea

February 8, 2019

Makhangoa Community Camp 2018/19 Season: Blog 6

This week we were joined in the Kingdom of the Sky by returning guests Nishan and Dale, who also brought along his brother Jethro. They were joined by another returning guest from the States, Brian, who has had the privilege to fish pretty much every bucketlist destination in the

February 8, 2019

Gabon 2019 – Week 2

For the second week of the 2019 season, we had a group of returning guests joining from South Africa. With the previous week ending on a high, the guys were very keen to get stuck in.The skies were still very heavy after some big downpours – The resulting “gingerbeer” water was

July 3, 2017

Nubian Flats Season 2017 Week 3

The second group of the Sudan 2017 season was filled with many new experiences and huge learning curves for our anglers. Robbie, Sandro, Steve and Greame joined us for the week. They have fished with us on several occasions, but this was their time to brave the salty waters

June 30, 2017

Nubian Flats Season 2017 Week 1 & 2 – Guest Blog

Fly Fishing the Red Sea“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” Mike TysonAs we departed Dubai international on a southward bearing, I reflected on my first trip to coastal Sudan; a land of endless flats, fish that defy the imagination and memories that last a

February 10, 2017

Makhangoa Community Camp 2016/17 Season: Photo Essay 10

For their fourth time Dave (Davo), Graeme (G man), John, Umkulu and Pelham made there annual pilgrimage up from Natal to the Bokong valley. Joining them for the first time was John Bredin, who made a worthy addition to the team.

January 23, 2017

Makhangoa Community Camp 2016/17 Season: Group 9 Photo Essay

People say that you learn something new eveyday, especially if you surround yourself with people who are willing to share their wisdom. This was the case with our 9th group this season. Our newly appointed trainee, Brent, and I had the priviledge of guiding a team