South Africa is well-known as a holiday destination for endless beaches, great wines, the Kruger National Park, Cape Town, and the Garden Route.
However, it is less-known for its fly fishing spots. From salt water fly fishing to stalking wild brown trout in crystal-clear mountain streams, South Africa is emerging as a fishing paradise even for well-travelled hands.
There is wild trout fishing in the streams, rivers and lakes of the Western Cape, in the Drakensberg range as well as in Mpumalanga Province and Kwazulu-Natal.
The Kraai River catchment area, bordering the Kingdom of Lesotho, boasts hundreds of brooks/rivers and stretches over a plateau punctuated with valleys. This area provides a well-seasoned fisherman with, by far, the highest concentration of running water in the country. The Kraai meanders its way to the mighty Orange River and meets the Atlantic Ocean more than 1200km away.
They look forward to sharing this spectacularly unspoilt countryside and the infinite number of clean, clear brooks, streams and rivers with you.
The Yellowfish is an attractive, golden-scaled carp, indigenous to many South African rivers, rises in the warmer months. Offers brilliant fights on dries and nymphs and reaches up to 10 pounds.
Rainbows are found all over the area. Bigger fish found in the lower Sterkspruit, Bell and Kraai and in stillwater.
Brownies are situated in the upper reaches of running water, but also in some stillwater. The best beat exclusively for brownies is above a waterfall on the Willow Stream. In the streams they are about 25 cm, many are approx. 35 cm, and 40 cm fish are not unheard of. In stillwater, they can get up to 70 cm.
