by Courtney Field | Aug 28, 2015 | Bass, Flies
Best Flies For Bass When Fly Fishing South Africa The Top 10 (Ten) Bass Flies To Fish In South Africa What are the best flies for Bass? A question so often asked in the South African fly fishing community. Fly fishing for Bass is not easy, regardless of what Bass...
by Courtney Field | Aug 24, 2015 | Fly Fishing Articles, Freshwater Fly Fishing, Yellowfish
Yellowfish Season In South Africa Fly Fishing For Yellows In South African Waters When we talk about Yellowfish Season in South Africa we, as fly fishers, are normally talking about the Smallmouth Yellowfish (Labeobarbus aeneus) in particular, especially when speaking...
by Courtney Field | Aug 24, 2015 | Conservation, Yellowfish
Yellowfish Spawning: When Do Yellowfish Spawn? Spawning Information On South Africa’s Yellowfish An Introduction To Breeding Yellowfish Yellowfish Spawning: Yellowfish spawn, generally, after the first heavy rains of the Yellowfish season. The Yellowfish start...
by Courtney Field | Aug 21, 2015 | Flies, Saltwater Fly Fishing
Medium Blonde Fly – Best Fly Fishing Flies The Medium Blonde Fly, sometimes just called the Blond, is a well know saltwater fly, and is used by many fly fishermen all over the World. This streamer-type wet fly is best fished on an intermediate or sinking line...
by Courtney Field | Aug 21, 2015 | Flies, Saltwater Fly Fishing
Salty Bugger Fly – Best Fly Fishing Flies The Salty Bugger is personally one of my favourite saltwater flies, and I always carry a lot of these flies with me when I go on a saltwater fly fishing trip. Along with the Fritz and the Clouser Minnow, the Salty Bugger...
by Courtney Field | Aug 21, 2015 | Flies, Saltwater Fly Fishing
Gotcha Fly – Best Fly Fishing Flies The Gotcha fly is arguably the best Bonefish saltwater fly on the Planet. This small deadly pattern imitates a variety of crustaceans and is truly revolutionary. The Gotcha also comes in a “crazy leg” version,...
by Courtney Field | Aug 21, 2015 | Flies, Saltwater Fly Fishing
Bunker Fly – Best Fly Fishing Flies The Bunker Fly is a very well known and popular saltwater streamer-type wet fly. This fly catches big saltwater fish all around the World, and South Africa is no exception. The versatility of the Bunker Fly is well known, and...
by Courtney Field | Aug 21, 2015 | Flies, Saltwater Fly Fishing
Epoxy Mullet – Best Fly Fishing Flies The Epoxy Mullet is an interesting saltwater fly that mimics small silver bait fish such as mullet, silverside, glassies and shad. This sturdy fly pattern imitates a mullet firstly, and is similar to the Surf Candy and...
by Courtney Field | Aug 21, 2015 | Flies, Saltwater Fly Fishing
Hot Flash Minnow – Best Fly Fishing Flies The Hot Flash Minnow is an excellent saltwater streamer, wet fly and lure fly. These flies are very successful and have proven their consistency and worth all around the World, and South African waters are no exception....
by Courtney Field | Aug 21, 2015 | Flies, Saltwater Fly Fishing
Saltwater Popper – Best Fly Fishing Flies The Saltwater Popper fly is fly fishing’s version of the open faced popper. A lure that has claimed many saltwater fish species in it’s time. The Saltwater Popper is a generic term for different patterns and...
by Courtney Field | Aug 21, 2015 | Flies, Saltwater Fly Fishing
Surf Candy – Best Fly Fishing Flies The Surf Candy fly is an excellent saltwater fly pattern, which acts as a streamer or lure-type fly. The Surf Candy is a small baitfish imitation, that mimics general fish species such as Mullet or Glassies. This saltwater fly...
by Courtney Field | Aug 21, 2015 | Flies, Freshwater Fly Fishing, Yellowfish
Top 10 Flies For Yellowfish Season What Flies To Use For Yellowfish During Spring & Summer? There are so many flies for Yellowfish, and it can be a daunting task for any fly fisherman when setting out on an early season trip to one of the many freshwater venues...
by Courtney Field | Aug 14, 2015 | Fly Fishing Articles, Freshwater Fly Fishing, Tutorials
How To Catch Rainbow Trout In Spring Season In South Africa? Trout in Spring can be a bit challenging, and a lot of factors effect this. The fact that they could be in their spawning transition stage, rainfall levels and wind. So all the spawning has stopped, the...
by Courtney Field | Aug 12, 2015 | Flies, Tackle
Fly Fishing Hooks, Sizes & Info You Should Know After hundreds of years there is not system for determining the size of fly fishing hooks. In other words what you think is a size 14 trout hook I might believe is a size 12 and yet we continue to see trout hook...
by Courtney Field | Jul 31, 2015 | Tackle
Looking After Your Fly Fishing Tackle & Equipment Effectively Looking After Your Fly Fishing Tackle: It’s that time of year again when actual fishing (rather than thinking or reading about fishing or tying flies for the sake of it) starts to happen. With the new...
