Learning how to catch trout on fly. The Lydenburg area in Mpumalanga is renowned for it’s great small stream trout fishing. Click on over to highlandrun.co.za to learn more about trout fishing in the area,
The trout season is well upon us here in South Africa, so we asked fly-fishing veteran Andrew von Biljon to recommend some websites to us, for learners. Learning to catch trout on fly, can be the most exhilarating, or frustrating time of your entire life. Taking time to arm yourself with knowledge is part of the experience. Good fishing starts with 90% preparation. Andrew was quick to come back to us recommending a great presentation put together by Orvis.
Click on over to http://howtoflyfish.orvis.com to begin your preparation and training for the big moment you get to brandish your first fly rod.
Small stream trout fishing in Lydenburg (Mpumulanga, South Africa) is an exciting winter prospect. River caught trout are known to be far more voracious and cunning than their bigger dam raised counterparts. River trout are free range hunters that patrol the shallow flowing waters using their camouflage and stealth – to ambush prey.
Waking up early, very early – coffee and rusks to get you on the go. The sun – nowhere, but first light helps you make your way carefully, down to the river. Rushing waters and waking birds guiding you all the way.
Sneaking up to the river bank, ever aware, you imagine you can see the trout you are after, swimming in the clear current, just downstream. Stripping out some line, you carefully approach, your camo gear helping you stay hidden. Quiet steps. And you cast. A small, gentle, but accurate cast – you only need a few metres most times. Your 2 or 3 weight fly rod, with floating line, and a short five foot or so fluorocarbon leader, is a cinch to operate. Your neat little Red-eye Damsel fly – deployed for the ambush. Mimicking a Dragon Fly Nymph.
Encouraging your offer to drift towards your prey, you start to twitch it as you retrieve your line against the flow of the lightening stream. As the fly reaches the small pool you thought you saw the fish in…
Bang! An explosion in the water right in front of you and your rod tip is violently jerked downstream and you set the hook! The sun is rising, the birds are cheering, and the fish are biting.
Dreams are coming true!
This is the time of the year, for this type of trout fishing action.
Trout fishing in Lydenburg…at Highland Run Fly-fishing Estate
In the Mpumalanga Drakensberg, 17 kilometres out of Lydenburg, is Highland Run Fly-fishing Estate. Tucked away tightly up into the Drakensberg mountains. With the trout filled Spekboom River flowing right through it. 5.1 Kilometres of pristine, crystal clear trout stream.
The nature-centric development of three lodges, on a grand piece of mountain range, available via shared ownership, is great opportunity, to realise stories like the above. It includes shared ownership of the land around the houses – so you are also contributing to the conservation of the area, by investing. And then reap the rewards of ownership in a unique and worthwhile project like Highland Run, by Dream Resorts, in Bryanston, Johannesburg.
