THE MISSION FLY MAG - ISSUE 49

ISSUE 49 JAN/FEB 2025

Cover: The jungle scene at Agua Boa in the Brazilian Amazon as imagined by illustrator Simon Berndt. Full story on page 32.

24. THE FEATHERS AWARD 2024

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Revealed in this issue.

32. THE APPRENTICE

Not since Neil Strauss in The Game or pretty much ev in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert has a ma peacocked so hard. At least, that's our opinion of Deon Mey experience at Agua Boa in the Amazon, where he kept up with the pros, drank almost all of the beers, and only slightly melted his brain.

50. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

For Leonard Flemming, a visit to khui khui River Lodge with his wife upended a lot of what he had come to expect of the Orange River. An inland river with predictable tides? Dry fly-smashing smallmouth yellows?! Luxury instead of the rough stuff?

60. THE VIRGIN

If you think of tigerfish like sex, then former Protea fly fishing captain MC Coetzer has been wearing a chastity belt for several decades. Until very recently he had deliberately chosen not to target them. But that all changed on a trip to Matoya Fishing Lodge on the Barotse floodplains of western Zambia.

70. SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT

On a breakaway from rearing twin toddlers, editor Tudor Caradoc-Davies went down south of Down Under in search of Tazzy's tailing brown trout.

REGULAR FEATURES

14 Chum
16 Wish List Fish
18 High Fives
86 Salad Bar
92 Pay Day
96 Undercurrents
100 Lifer
106 Pop Quiz

Sandbanks, drop-offs, troughs and big peacock bass looking to ambush your fly was what Deon Meyer found in the Amazon at Agua Boa Lodge (page 32)

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