Hope you are all well! This is really the time to start thinking of cleaning all your fly-fishing gear. The time of truth is near for some who booked their safari’ in advance. For those of you who have booked later on this year I’ll tame those monsters so long.

Well guys, the good news is that we have started to take some really big small mouth yellows. The rivers have settled and we have awesome fun taking good fish. The flies that are now destroying the yellows are mustard caddis and two-tone mayfly flies. The small mouths are at the inlets of pools and late afternoons almost in the rapids. We fish long lines across and down. The other day someone told me that he fish down and across. Get real! If someone knows this tecnique - please let me know so that I can get up to date!!!

Charles Ratcliff got this magnificent rubberlip small mouth Yellow on a mustard caddis at the bridge near town. He accually got one bigger than this but the camera was too far off. Like a good sportsman he set the fish free without a pick.

He and a friend Lionel Song visited me for a week in July and they landed over 40 fish that includes Largemouth Yellows, Small mouth Yellows and Muddies.

They were unfortunate and had to put up with some strong winds and ice cold fronts that came trough.

Here Lionel holds on as the Small mouth took his line to deeper water

 I was lucky and also got this rubberlip on a small #14 two-tone mayfly.

If I look at the circumstances now and how the fish are feeding I would grab any opportunity to come and fish with the upcoming summer and me during August. The water level of the Orange River is now also back to normal. However, this would take about a month to totally clear up. Let’s face it, this part of the world have enough water to choose from, that fishing wise you will not run out of options to where to go and catch that dreamable yellow that you envy on the photo’s that you see in this newsletters. Turner Wilkinson is visiting me on the weekend of the 4 Th of August. He is going to do an article on my operation in Douglas; which will be published in the Complete Fly fisher Magazine. More of this in the September newsletter.

I am also on my way to a new dam in the district, which, I believe from sources, holds magnificent small and Largemouth Yellows - more about that next month.

Just another reminder that those of you who had booked their safari’s to pay in your deposits. I appreciate your co-operation in this regard!!

I am really exited to hear all the great remarks on this newsletter. If any of you has a friend who would like to receive this newsletter, let him\ her drop me a mail.

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So now you know that the fish are biting.

I look forward having all off you as my guests soon!!

Kind regards

Jacques Marais