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Trout fishing in South Africa? Yep, John Miniverni took his game and a couple of CD 3 weights to Cape Town and discovered a very unique fishery. Rainbows were introduced by colonists 100 years ago and thrive in the clear, cold creeks. Tight, vegetation-lined banks and gin-clear water=technical fishing. This was rock-hopping at its finest,…

Several years ago, myself and the TV crew from Fly Fishing the World went to the Florida Keys specifically to film a shark on-the fly episode with shark fishing extraordinaire Conway Bowman, legendary captain, R.T. Trosset and his son, Chris.   With the chum line set, it didn’t take long for the toothy critters to…

On an Idaho pond full of brookies and native rainbows, I turned my 3-year old son loose with an XLS 11. He actually made the cast himself, and when the fish ate the hopper, he set the hook! He landed the fish himself but didn’t want to hold it for the picture. He still doesn’t…