Trout at the tip of Africa

[Mike McKeown]

Hi Guy

I thought I would share this with you… plagiarism included… Luckily I know Tom well enough to do this…

I spent Monday this week fishing with a good friend of mine just outside Cape Town, in South Africa. Tom Sutcliffe is a retired medical doctor and is an icon of South African trout fishing. Tom has authored seven books on trout fishing in South Africa, is an acclaimed water colour artist and a highly respected photographer. I did the fishing while the good doctor took pictures. The flows in the high altitude mountain streams are low at this time of year, but I managed to catch some stunning little rainbows on dry flies. I used a 7’6”; 4-wt Payne 198, made by Chris McDowell (and acquired from Cloozoe). The rainbows were stocked just once in this stream – in 1905. They are the real deal for sure and are just gorgeous. On average, the fish run 8 – 12”, but every now and then a bus of 15”; will get you all weak-kneed and dry in the mouth! These are the pics from the day that Tom sent me. Hope you enjoy.

Tom

http://www.classicflyrodforum.com/topic/12621

[Jim Lampros]

Wow! Those 1/2 & 1/2 shots are some of the coolest fishing pictures I’ve ever seen.

JL

[Rich Kovars]

I love the one of the fish charging away with the fly! 🙂

[capt. gene berger]

Nice….the underwater shots are very cool…I can’t quite figure out how it was done…I saw a website on extreme fly fishing off S. Africa, where they are catching 125-150 lb yellowfins (Allison) tuna on fly rods…I can’t figure that out either….Gene

[Mike McKeown]

There are lots of things the make the underwater shots work, and before I go much further, I AM NO EXPERT… and these are not my shots, nor do I take good underwater pictures…

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