As we headed to Mac Nicol’s for Halloween I realised that 2015 had fast become the year of Bazley. Being my third post on this campsite for the year I’m not going to go into too much detail about the venue itself. It’s classed as a 4 star caravan park and, although I don’t know what that …
Since I primarily fly fish (and spend some amount of time mocking bait fishermen), I’m not going to spend too much time describing (or justifying) my bait fishing outing. Suffice to say it was a great day on the water despite tough conditions, mostly due to strong winds. Fishing was tough with only a handful …
With a four day weekend on the cards Sharon and I started looking for new campsites to visit with Emma. Funnily enough we made our final decision based on Emma’s passport. Having not been able to enter Lesotho earlier in the year when it was snowing we thought it was high time we braved the queues and …
We arrived at the Park Rynie (Scottburgh) Home Affairs at 7am where we joined an already long queue. Starting at 7:30am people were let into the building in batches, which meant that everyone else was left standing outside in the baking sun. Sharon and I took turns at sitting in the shade with Emma, while the …
Having spent the week pondering my Bend curse, I wasn’t the least bit surprised when we drove straight into pouring rain en route to the Bend. I was yet to visit in sunshine, and was yet to get in any fishing, unless of course you consider a short fishless session and a broken line fishing? I was …
Craving some trout fishing, Neill was kind enough to put together another boys weekend to trout mecca known as Underberg. I put in for a full day’s leave on Friday (rather than the usual half day) in the hope of getting in a full day’s fishing. Sadly this was not to be as Neill got stuck …
With Sharon and I both being exceptionally busy at work, and leave is a gift from above. So when a long weekend crept up on us we made the last minute decision to head to the Kamberg Nature Reserve for a weekend in the mountains. Our first stop was at Piggly Wiggly, early on Saturday …
On the odd occasion I down my fly rod and head out instead with a bait stick in hand. Sunday was one such day. Alan had invited me to join him on his trusty vessel to do a little grunter fishing in the harbour. Needing to pump some cracker we got to the harbour shortly after 9am, …
I recently decided to take the family on a mini adventure to a very cold Underberg. Snow was predicted and it’s not often that it falls over the weekend in easily accessible locations. I was therefore going to do everything in my power to make sure my little girl got to see snow for the first time, …
Amazingly, for the first time in 3 years, I was actually with my wife on our anniversary instead of off fishing. We therefore decided to celebrate the special occasion with a night alone at Tala Game Reserve. Being close to home meant we got to skip the usual 3am wake up call comes with our …