With the (trout) streams having been closed for almost two months now I was starting to get some serious withdrawal symptoms. I needed to get into a river, and I needed to do it now. So I picked up the phone, gave Nick a call, and we put together a trip to Nyala Pans to …
After spending the weekend with the family in Richards Bay, Sharon and I advanced on the iMfolozi gate with the newest addition to our family safely strapped into her car seat. Although we’d done a few weekend trips to places such as Underberg and Tala, this was to be our first family holiday with Emma. …
After having taken part in the inaugural Boston Dargle Fly Fishing Festival in 2011 (and having then missed the second festival due to my wedding) there was absolutely no chance that we were going to miss the third running of this (now) legendary festival. So we made sure we got our entries in early and …
Since I was fishing the Boston Fly Fishing Festival on our first wedding anniversary, I made this video for my wife to (hopefully) make up for my absence. It’s our Book of Love.
Comrades is always a bitter-sweet day for me. On three occasions I’ve trained for the event but I’m yet to make it to the starting line. Attempt 1 saw me pick up a bad case of ITB during the Two Oceans. Attempt 2 was cut short by malaria. And my third and final attempt ended …
Thanks to the KZNFFA Peter Hayes spent several weeks in South Africa offering fly casting courses, and in his free time fishing the local waters. As part of his trip he was kind enough to get involved in several upliftment projects involving some of South Africa’s local communities. One such project revolved around the Thendela …
My mom, in all of her awesomeness, sewed Emma this beautiful quilt. This is definitely the latest family heirloom.
Since the birth of my daughter fly fishing has taken a bit of a back seat but, being who I am, that was of course definitely not sustainable. So when I was told that Peter Hayes was offering a clinic to the Aids orphans in Underberg I immediately took Friday off, packed up the family, …
After years of carrying my camera equipment in the bags it came in my wife was kind enough to get me a Lowepro Flipside 400 AW for Christmas. I’d been swearing I’d buy a bag for many years but had never gotten around to it due to the obsessive compulsive person in me. Somehow I’d …