POP QUIZ

SURGEON FISH OR SARDINE? LEAD SINGER OR BELL RINGER? TAKE OUR RAPID-FIRE QUIZ TO SEE WHETHER YOU WERE PUT ON THIS PLANET TO BE CHUM-EE OR CHUM-ER.

1. According to the editor, The Cape Fly Fishers might be... (page 12)?

A. A figment of Andre van Wyk’s imagination.

B. A secret club with secret waters, secret rules and secret members.

C. The CIA of fly fishing clubs.

D. A ruse in order to secure more time with a timeshare cooler.

2. According to Sebastian Murphy of Viagra Boys, if you catch a grayling, you should...(page 24)?

A. Hold up its dorsal fin and take a goofy photo with it.

B. Compliment it that, in your eyes, it’s more, “silver foxling than grayling.”

C. Whisper an ancient Swedish curse in its ears and release it while wishing it was a trout.

D. Turn it into the freshwater equivalent of Surströmming (sour herring) by salting it, letting it get stinky and then canning it.

3. According to Blaede Russel, which of these things does not happen while night fishing in Cameroon... (page 30)?

A. You cast flies the size of chickens.

B. You have Ed Truter whisper sweet nothings in your ear.

C. You catch 150lb Nile perch.

D. You play footsie-footsie with crocs.

E. You receive a cacophony of hippo grunts.

4. In his imagined triggerfish movie, Peter Coetzee plays the role of... (page 50)?

A. Marvel’s King Crab.

B. DC’s Cancero.

C. Thunder Force’s Jerry the Crab.

D. The Punisher.

E. Dr Octopus.

5. While trying to be the first angler in his group to break the double-digit fish hoodoo, Matt Kennedy indulged in which superstition... (page 54)?

A. Swapping his left and right socks around, an old tarpon trick.

B. Planting a banana on a fellow angler’s float tube, also known as “the Snack Pack Attack”.

C. Crossing his fingers while practising a figure of eight retrieve.

D. Haruspex, the ancient Greek practice of reading the entrails of an animal, in this case an unfortunate Highland Lodge sheep.

6. Stu Webb’s gamechanging fly pattern for Trachinotus africanus in Oman is called... (page 66)?

A. Sid the Sex Squid

B. Sam the Lust Clam

C. Gail the Smut Snail

D. Russel the Love Mussel