Storms Doom Yellowfish Rivers

Thunder shook Lesotho all night.  Heaps of rain fell.  We all heard it and knew for sure all rivers would be chocolate colored mud in the morning.  We slept in then took it easy while Ryan weaved us a plan for fishing the dam (reservoir).   This dam is scenic...

Long Hike Pays Dividends Fishing in Lesotho

The sun rises here in Lesotho just before 5 AM.  The birds go off like mad.  While winter approaches back home, the green of spring is full on in Southern Africa.  I live for the southern hemisphere when the days are cold and short back home.  We left early to fish a...

Fishing in Lesotho with Tourette Comes to an End

I packed the rods last night so there would be no 5 AM temptation to fish the camp pool.  Instead me, Granny and the Tourette fishing guides sipped coffee and reminisced about our great four days all while I left my mark at the Makhangoa Community Fishing Camp.  I...

My First Trout in Africa

We awoke to a much nicer day than yesterday.  It was freezing cold but the clouds were gone and I could see right away the river came down a few inches.  I got up at 5 and slammed my coffee, grabbed my 4-weight LS and went back down to the camp pool.  I had a meeting...

Fly Fishing the Gourits River of South Africa

Our South African adventure isn’t a week old yet and we’ve done lots.  We have our travel groove on thanks to Craig and Coreta Smith.  They’ve shown us a beautiful piece of the Garden Route along the coast of South Africa.  But today Craig and Coreta drove us north...