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December/ January 2009/2010 Issue # 179	Salt Water: Festive Season Basics (Anthony Krüger) Fresh Water: It’s All About Hooks (Ian Couryer) Time Goes By (Jolyon Nuttall) Rivers of the Southern ’Berg – Part II: The Upper Ndawane (Miles Divett) Trophy Time! (Turner Wilkinson) On the Taimen Trail – In the Land of Genghis Khan (Schoeman du Plessis) Buster, Terrence and Holey Waders (Marcus Janssen) Off the Beaten Track? (Graeme Field) Shark Files – Part III: Zambezi and Tiger Sharks (Richard Schumann) Mullet on Fly (Anthony Krüger) Salt Water Flies – Then and Now (Murray Pedder) The Water Hopper (Kriek van der Merwe) Another Year Gone By (Andrew Levy)

November 2009 Issue # 178	Salt Water: Fish Kill on the Swartkops (Anthony Krüger) Fresh Water: Tying Your Own (Ian Couryer) Rivers of the Southern 'Berg - Part I: The "Other" Bushman's (Miles Divett) Eastern Cape Trout Bandits (Ewan Naude) Bundu Bashing for Large- and Smallscale Yellows (Brett Mannix) Mahseer of the Ramganga (Leonard Flemming) Shark Files - Part II: Blacktip, Caribbean, Grey Reef and Hammerhead Sharks (Richard Schumann) Boys Don't Cry (Graeme Field) Tying for Exotic Destinations - Part II (Murray Pedder) At the Bench: Snoek Clouser (Gerard Barnardt) Double Hauls, Toddlers and Mayflies from Hell... (Dionne Crafford) Dawsons Game and Trout Lodge (Eddie Whiting) Fishwives (Andrew Levy)

October 2009 Issue # 177	Salt Water: Saving Swartkops (Anthony Krüger) Fresh Water: Spawning Time is Here (Ian Couryer) Summer’s Best Bunch (Turner Wilkinson) Alaska – Fishing the Discovery Channel (Jonathan Boulton) Of Mice and Men (Anthony Krüger) Cuban Crusades (Graeme Field) The Shark Files – Part I - Lemon, Nurse and Blacktip Reef Sharks (Richard Schumann) Tubing It (Murray Pedder) Ten Local Favourites for Trout (Bill Hansford-Steele) Book Review: Fishing Flies for Africa A Comprehensive Guide to Freshwater and Saltwater Flies by Bill Hansford-Steele (Reviewed by Andrew Levy) Watching the Weather (Andrew Levy)

September 2009 Issue # 176	Salt Water: Winter is Officially over! (Anthony Krüger) Fresh Water: Catch-and-Release Fishing (Ian Couryer) Gift from the Gods (Jolyon Nuttall) Ten of the Best Small Streams - Part III - Western Cape Streams (Leonard Flemming) Secret Diaries (Derek Grzelewski) Barotse - No Country for Old Men (Anthony Krüger) Deep, Down & Dirty - The Art of Deepwater Fly Fishing (Graeme Field) It's all About the Fly (Marcus Janssen) Telling Tails (Murray Pedder) Deadly Duo for Large- & Smallscale Yellows (Compiled by PJ Jacobs) Engeleni Lodge (Eddie Whiting) Book Review: Where The Fish Are - An Angler's Guide to Fish Behaviour by Daniel Bagur (Reviewed by PJ Jacobs) Heaven is a River with No Name (Andrew Levy)

August 2009 Issue # 175	Salt Water: Tackle Maintenance (Anthony Krüger) Fresh Water: The Truth about Waders (Ian Couryer) Kindred Spirits (Jolyon Nuttall) Home of the Bone - St Brandon (Gerhard Laubscher) Striking it Lucky (Turner Wilkinson) High Time for Tigers (Malcolm Meintjes) Skinny-Water Blacktail (Conrad Botes) Popping for River Snapper (Graeme Field) Tying to Travel (Murray Pedder) Maclear - and a River Runs through it (Eddie Whiting) DVD Review: Flyfishing Mozambique with Andrew Parsons Destination: Bazaruto Archipelago (Reviewed by PJ Jacobs) Fishing on the Box (Andrew Levy)

July 2009 Issue # 174	Salt Water: Reading the Weather (Anthony Krüger) Fresh Water: The First Results are in! (Ian Couryer) Lotheni Revisited (Jolyon Nuttall) Small Streams - Ten of the Best - Part II - The Vlooikraalspruit (Leonard Flemming) March of the Bearded Army (Graeme Field) Braving the Cold for Yellows (Turner Wilkinson) Marlin Mania (Arno Matthee) Attractor Dry Fly Theory (Ian Couryer) Dragons & Damsels (Gerard Barnardt) Largemouth Favourites (Murray Pedder) Book Review:"The Last Best Place - Images of New Zealand Flyfishing" by Zane Mirfin, edited by Bob South. (Reviewed by PJ Jacobs) Meet the Professionals (Andrew Levy)

June 2009 Issue # 173	Salt Water: Predicting the Weather (Anthony Krüger) Fresh Water: Testing the Waters (Ian Couryer) Why we Fish (Marcus Janssen) Small Streams - Ten of the Best - Part I - The Bushman's River (Leonard Flemming) Amazon - Peacocks of the Itapara (Jonathan Boulton) Days of our Lives (Derek Grzelewski) Knysna - Paradise Lost - or Found? (Gerard Barnardt) Mozambique on a Fly Rod - Part XXIV - Indigo Bay Island Resort and Spa (TCFF Editorial Staff) Lessons in Legs (Murray Pedder) The Zen of Fishing (Andrew Levy)

May 2009 Issue # 172	Salt Water: Safety at Sea (Anthony Krüger) Fresh Water: Fly Fishing Etiquette (Ian Couryer) Hat-Trick on the Zak (Paul Curtis) Changing Seasons (Turner Wilkinson) Montauk Mayhem - False Albacore Fishing Off Long Island, New York (Arnold van Wyk) Natural Born Killers - Taming the Tigers Off the Lower Zambezi (Arno Matthee) As Good as it Gets - Fishing for Science (Richard Schumann’s) Mozambique on a Fly Rod - Part XXIII - Vila Do Paraiso (Anthony Krüger) In the Net (David Tyndale-Biscoe) Foam Fanatics (Murray Pedder) Book Review: Call of the Stream by Peter Brigg (Reviewed by PJ Jacobs) A Man's Best Friend is his Fly Rod (Andrew Levy)

April 2009 Issue # 171	A Historical Tale of Obsession and Passion (Dionne Crafford) Exploring the Lower Zambezi (Keith Clover) New Flies for Tigerfish (Arno Matthee) New Zealand - Then & Now (PJ Jacobs) Into the Deep Blue (John Dreyer) Beating the Ant "Hatch" (Ian Couryer) Substitutes & Alternatives (Murray Pedder) Valley of the Rainbow (Brett Mannix) Starting Out (Andrew Levy)

March 2009 Issue # 170	Tinca tinca on Fly (Leonard Flemming) Then it was Rhodes (Miles Divett) Coming Full Circle (Jonathan Boulton) Cuba and the Lure of Tarpon (John Neaves) Report Back: TCFF/Bell's Sterkfontein Experience - November 2008 (PJ Jacobs) The Kob Conundrum (Anthony Krüger) Emergers Made Easy (Murray Pedder) Deadly Damsel (Ian Couryer) Looking Back (Andrew Levy)

February 2009 Issue # 169	Beware the Dangers of (Fly) Fishing (Chris Binnington) Reflections on Fly Fishing (Dionne Crafford) Salmo Trutta - Obscurely Selective (Leonard Flemming) Trophy Stillwaters of South Africa - Part IV (Jamie Renton) The Basics for River and Stream Fishing - Part V (Peter Brigg) Gearing Up for Garrick (Anthony Krüger) On the Wing (Murray Pedder) The Apple Caddis (Ian Wallace) Book Review: Favoured Flies and Select Techniques of the Experts - Vol 4 (Reviewed by Paul Curtis) Linger Longer Country Retreat (Eddie Whiting) Planning for the Year Ahead (Andrew Levy)

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