Boskop Dam: No Motors Allowed

It was the 6th of March 2009. The weather man had cleared the skies for the weekend ahead. Our bosses (including girlfriends) had given us the Friday off. Everything seemed just perfect, and so “The Bass Bugger” Shaun Taylor and I hit the open road, due west towards Boskop dam near Potchefstroom in the North [...]

Vaal River Muddies and Yellow Fish

We decided to broaden our angling horizons a few weeks ago, and set out to the Vaal River with our fly rod in tow to target a species that we had not targeted before, the well sought after Smallmouth Yellowfish. The experience felt remarkably different to our usual fishing trips right from the word go. [...]

Boskop

It was the first weekend of febuary ’09 and I thought it a charming idea to take my girlfriend on a romantic fishing weekend to a new fishing hole, Boskop dam, near Potchefstroom. Well I was definitely wrong about the charming bit. We stayed at the Boskop Nature reserve and to say that there were [...]

Success!

Aaaaah, our new secret fishing hole… what a spot. A magnificent, unpressured body of water endowed with a thick perimeter of wide leaved lily pad fields, all surrounded by a beautiful landscape characteristic of the untapped Highveld. Oh and the fishing, well, it is not a particularly large dam but the fishing is simply phenomenal. [...]

NYAMINYAMI

There is an ancient tale, well known to many, of a mythical creature that once looked over the great Zambezi River and all those that resided dependently on its shores. The Tongan people of the Zambezi valley often speak of “the Protector”, a water-born, god-like creature, with the head of a fish and body of [...]