Nottingham Road, KZN province, South Africa Here in the KZN midlands we have suffered the drought and the heat like the rest of South Africa this season. In fact, in the first week or so of January, we had the highest te...
KZN Midlands, South Africa The Natal Fly Fisher's club posts its quarterly fishing returns summary, 30 days after the end of each quarter. That summary was posted to their website today (within the member area, accessibl...
KZN Midlands, South Africa Since I last wrote, we have had pockets of storms here and there, in the normal unpredictable summer way of things. Then on Monday of this week, it seems that just about everyone had a âhu...
KZN Midlands, South Africa March was, I think, a little warmer and arguably wetter than is often the case. I hesitate to say that because like comments on global warming, these things are often our interpretation and are...
KZN Midlands, South Africa The river fishing petered out at the end of the season. As the hills got browner, the browns got scarcer. I guess that is what happens at the end of the season. It is however a little surprisin...
Nottingham Road, KZN province, South Africa I am afraid it is not good news. The word on the lips of every farmer and fisherman in âdroughtâ. When I wrote a report a few weeks ago, I did mention that it was ver...
KZN Midlands, South Africa My Grandfather used to give up drinking liquor for one month of the year. He did it to prove (to himself and anyone who cared) that he was not dependant on the stuff.
Of course he was ragged m...
KZN Midlands, South Africa KZN Midlands, Trout:
October has been a difficult month to pin down. I say that because of the weather, and as you by now know, I comment as much in these columns on the weather as I do on t...
KZN province, South Africa August fly fishing this year, if you will allow me to generalise, was not good at all. I donât know what it was that caused this. It was generally warm, but that in itself should not be a ...
Nottingham Road, KZN Midlands, South Africa It has been characteristically hot in January. That is kind of how we expect it. Big storms and lots of cloud cover in December, with a killer storm around Christmas day or so....
KZN, South Africa While I had a ball of a time in the autumn, I had a slow patch through July when it comes to fly fishing. There was a lot of work, a family holiday and some time under general anaesthetic thrown in ther...
KZN province, South Africa Since mid November, when last I commented on conditions in the KZN midlands, there has been little improvement when it comes to the drought conditions.
We are now in the throes of our full su...
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa April has been marvelous here in the midlands. Glorious weather, and great trout fishing!
I have gone a little river crazy of late, so no first hand stillwater reports from me, but I can pa...
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa September started out cool, as far as I can remember. I know I fished on the 6th on a club stillwater, and it was one of those pretty afternoons in which sharp warm sunlight cuts across shaded...
KZN Midlands, South Africa My wife and I went up to Highmoor for a walk last week-end. We strolled to the lookout over the Ncibidwane valley. When I am fishing at Highmoor, I see many couples doing this. I always wonder...
Also known as “Fowlers Magic Dragon”, “Puff the Magic Dragon”, or just “the
Puff”, but most likely not known at all.
I suppose I have done very little to spread the news about this fly, but
that was bor...
