The Strike-Indicator Booby Ed Herbst FOSAF held its first national AGM outside Gauteng in April 2016 and Alan Hobson was their host in Somerset East.
DDD. He took six trout in ten casts and later told me that this is a very effective tactic on his home water, Middelpunt Dam in Gauteng.�
The delegates took some time off to fish Mountain Dam above the town.
I wanted to create a buoyant, easily-visible fly to anchor a blood worm which had a more realistic silhouette than the DDD.
Alan takes up the story: “Peter Arderne dead-drifted a bloodworm imitation below a
Catching trout on the dead-drift. Alan Hobson on Mountain Dam in Somerset East
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