The Mission Fly Fishing Magazine

A simple back-tied bucktail fly, the Honey Badger, is a highly adaptable, quick to tie fly and gets eviscerated by anything that eats baitfish. While it’s a staple in Ryan Foster’s GT box for the flats on the Seychelles, the Honey Badger is also his go-to in Sou...

Born in Zimbabwe, but based in the UK when he isn’t guiding for Blue Safari in the Seychelles, Graham Hayward is occasionally wayward, but always fishy. He’s also our High Fives guide for this issue.

Seduced by the weird juju of dry fly fishing on South Africa’s premier smallmouth yellowfish stillwater (and the challenges of competitive eating), Tudor Caradoc-Davies and Greg Lomas throw caution to the wind, invoke The Bard and surrender to the moody whims of

Adopting the old adage about what to do when life and lemons collide, when Blaede Russell’s entire season as a fly fishing guide and operator in Eritrea was cancelled, he (le)m(on)ade the best of it by roping in a fri...

Besides a good variety of Crazy Charlies to imitate shrimps (and potentially small baitfish), another must-have crustacean fly pattern to take with to saltwater destinations, like St Helena Island, is the Flexo crab (or its variation/succe...