LAZER POINTER FLIES
Us fly people frequently debate the merits of fluorescent colours in flies. Recently, during a chat with mates, I remarked that a fish’s reaction to such seemingly ‘unnatural’ colours may [...]
BEHIND THE COVER: SIMON BERNDT Q&A
There's been a huge response to The Mission's issue 37 cover. We knew it would be popular, but we did not know it would be this popular with our hits [...]
HIGH FIVES – MIKE DAMES
A renowned heathen-ware angler who has dived into fly fishing guiding over the last few years with Mavungana Flyfishing and [...]
3D PRINTINGS PLACE – POST 2
This is where things got a bit squiggly... Flexibles. After the joy and simplicity of using hard plastics I figured [...]
A MOMENT AT MURCHISON
Photos: Richard Standford and I Thud thud thud. That moment when "dammit, bottom" was shattered as the heavy headshakes telegraphed [...]
TAIL FETISH
I'm a sight fisherman way before I'm a fly fisherman. Faced with two options; blind casting a fly rod, or [...]
THE LONG WAY HOME
When Peter Coetzee went to the Yemeni archipelago of Socotra, he had two weeks spent chasing giant trevally on the [...]
GEAR OF THE YEAR
The fly fishing world is awash with ambassadors and endorsements, so when we threw the net wide asking people for [...]