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A toast! Ray did it!
This might sound ridiculous, but the high of my fishing year to date was someone else’s. My brother-from-another-mother, Ray Montoya has been hunting down Roosters on foot. Yup, like we all want to....
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Internet Bull$hit
I picked up the paper this morning and was surprised to see the pic of Brutus the croc with that Bull Shark in its mouth. Its a story that circulated not too long ago…but the story has evolved a bit....
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Ray on Roosters
“Thoughts on Roosters Okay, first off, I’m a complete neophyte when it comes to hunting roosters from the beach, but I’ve logged a least three decades of beach fishing and two decades of targeting jack...
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Blast from the past- Fly fishing the kingdom
Ive got a penchant for Urban fly fishing. Theres something grungy and cool about it. Some years back we went to Thailand on a company incentive trip. So it wasn’t long until I searched Fly Fishing...
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Blast From the Past – Fly fishing the Kingdom – day 1
DAY 1: Arriving at Gillhams (near Krabi) the previous afternoon I quickly began to see activity of the water. Cruising Red Tail Catfish, Arawana, Rolling Arapaima. I got an early nights sleep and got...
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Blast from the past – Fly fishing the kingdom day 2
DAY 2: More blind casting in the morning. Nothing. More blind casting in the afternoon. Nothing. And im not whipping a cute 3wt TXL around. This fishing hurts. By now Ive caught everyones attention...
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Blast from the past – fly fishing the kingdom day 3
ARAPAIMA 101! 7:15am They cruise in loose groups of two to three fish and by now Ive figured how to take them. You cast what theyre eating (in this case a snakehead imitation) about 20cm in front of...
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blast from the past – fly fishing the kingdom day 5/6
Day 5: On return to Phuket I managed to get in contact with a local guy named Tim who on hearing I was a Fly Fisherman was keen to take me out to a few local spots. The first afternoon we headed to...
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Sand Sharkin around
It was an incredible day yesterday. No swell. Not a breath of wind. Had “sand sharks in the surf” written all over it. I shot up the West Coast late afternoon and got straight to it. Id tied one of...
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waiting for the hatch
It was at a time that I was scrambling for a formula that worked for Garden Route Grunter, long before I realised there were many formulas, for many situations. Id been up every weekend for a year,...
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Vote for our Homie Ray
Because its a bloody DIY Rooster! Thats why! http://www.moldychum.com/moldy-chum-photos/ The holy shit Rooster deserves it.
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Into the archives – Little Karoo Yellowfish
Two months ago a massive flood tore through the Groot River valley. Taking with it live stock, dam walls, the works. The river level rose 7 meters in parts. I feared that all my Yellowfish and the...
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The land that was
Ray emailed me some of these…but I like the picture-on-a-fly table look. indian sardines imagine the fight. yip. used to be this good. biggest I’ve ever seen. and some other stills from back then,...
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From the archives – Ms Lichia Amia
The Leerfish of Zandvlei are the notorious South African fish of a 1000 casts. And even at that I know many that have gone years without so much as a follow. We fished Zandveli hard for a few years and...
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Go Pro – expectations vs reality.
class. coming home to find that the fish I stalked to within 5m looks about 500m away….yip.
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A lovely little surprise
Lorraine Loots is another one of these sickeningly talented Capetonians. Her series 365 postcards for ants is literally that. They’re tiny, beautifully executed and themed around Cape Town. I was...
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The weekend that was
It was about this time last year that the famous prawn walk happened in the Garden Route, so it was time I headed up to check. Funny enough I even bumped into Ian, both of us severely disappointed by...
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