A Winter’s Day At Hella Hella

Releasing a Natal scaly

At 4am I was awoken by the sound of pouring rain which left me wondering if our trip to the Umkomaas was still on the cards. Thankfully as I lay there the downpour slowly abated and by the time I climbed out of bed there was just the slightest drizzle. I made a few rolls, […]

Natal Scalies On The Umkomaas

Warren Prior with a Natal scaly on the Umkomaas

With Leo heading for the UK we decided to do one last outing with the fly sticks prior to his departure. Our chosen quarry was the Natal Yellowfish, aka the scaly, on the Umkomaas River just outside of Richmond.

We had a great turnout with 6 of us making our way to Hella Hella via […]

A Sterkies Adventure

Sterkfontein is regarded as one of the premiere sight fly fishing venues in the world. Who wouldn’t want to cast to sighted smallmouth yellowfish in crystal clear waters, ever fearing the imminent Berg storm.

A Tough Sterkfontein Trip

After Nick’s successful new year’s Sterkfontein trip it was quickly decided that the Baha Boys needed to get up to Africa’s premier sight fishing venue before the season ended. So after a quick look at our calendars we booked a long weekend in March and did the necessary planning – calculating how much booze to […]

Sterkfontein 2013/2014

View at Sterkfontein

On the 30th of December I packed up the family, camping gear, and boat for a 5 day getaway to one of the Free State’s best kept secrets – Sterkfontein Dam.

It was an early 4am start to get to the dam and set up camp before searching for some gold. […]

A Sad Day Of Exploration

Testing out my new Fortuner in the Umgeni Valley

A year has passed since our last Heritage Day but the memories of a day spent fly fishing under snow capped mountains (and the adventure that followed) is still fresh in my mind. It therefore seemed only fitting to spend this Heritage Day in search […]

A Wintery Nyala Pans

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 […]

Nyala Pans Exploration

Natal Yellowfish (Scaly)

With the streams opening on the 1st September Nick and I planned the mandatory, season opening, trip to the Berg. But then something strange happened, a friend invited Nick and I to fish a stretch of the Umkomaas with him. After much deliberation we decided that the trout could wait another week […]

Sterkfontein Video

Enjoy our Sterkfontein adventure through our video. Fly fishing and yellowfish…does it get any better?

Sterkfontein

Flies For Sterkfontein

Sterkies was to be the first official fly fishing trip of the Baha Boys. That said, there were only 2 fishermen amongst the 6 of us so it was going to be tough to get in a lot of time on the water.

Even after a difficult drive to Sterkies (thanks […]