Year in and year out, I wait for the weather to turn a bit cooler so I could once again, go out and fish the flats. Since moving here, it has become an addiction that’s pretty hard to shake off....
Fishing
L’Africa vicina: Dakar, Senegal
Words + Photos By: Antonio Varcasia and Daniele Macis Issa plays soccer with a ball made of rags on the beach in Dakar with a multitude of young boys. He’s only 12 and his idol is Patrick Viera,...
Why we fish
Men have an innate need to go hunting; it’s our natural programming, the urge to hunt and test our skills against the wild, the elements and the unknown. We take what lessons we’ve learned in...
Working with wire
Wire. The mere sound of it has always put me off. It kinks, the ones that don’t kink are too visible and it’s stiff, almost always killing the action of an otherwise very attractive swimming lure or...
Fish of a lifetime: Visiting Rompin in Malaysia and the Royal Pahang Billfish Challenge
Words + Photos By: Daniel Birkhofer If you are not a fisherman, you will certainly not understand this article and the motivation and excitement behind it. If you are one, you know why we can hop on...
Overheads and Eggbeaters: Which one is for you?
The last ten years have been very pivotal in the evolution of reels. The engineers of our grandfather’s reels could not imagine it; their sons, the engineers of our father’s reels dreamt it, now...
ROLF
The summer heat has been bearing down on us for a couple of months, all but a few brave souls have stored their gear for the summer, some have left the country for cooler climes. It is indeed the...
Finale: Fish before Baktun
Words + Photos By: Antonio Varcasia, Enrico Ghedini and Daniele Macis Three anglers take a trip down the sailfish capital of the world, the Pacific Coast of Guatemala. In the second part of their...
Tying a Crazy Charlie fly
Words By: Kit Belen A look into a fly angler’s flybox is often greeted with a few revelations. There are a few schools of thought on this. There are those that stick to a simple formula, they are...
A Summer Game Plan
Words By: Kit Belen Photos By: Kit Belen and Leng Chua The summer is officially here, warm days and nights have come and shall be staying with us for the next three months or so. While some...