With winter fast approaching it is now time to change tactics and hunt for the gentleman of the deep. Chris van der Post from

CK Flyfishing Adventures  shares his 16 years experience in targeting Largemouth Yellowfish with us.

There could be no doubt that the largemouth yellowfish is the apex predator in South African freshwaters. These fish are incredibly strong and can grow to weights of up to 21 kilograms! It certainly is a worthy opponent on fly tackle and targeting them presents many challenges. Not many anglers have the perseverance to target these majestic fish and have regular success in doing so. I use the word perseverance because any “largemouth junkie” will tell you that if you want to be kept humble, target these fish. Most often what worked today won’t work tomorrow and you will need to cover a lot of water and make more casts than you care to count. If you do this and keep on doing it, maybe, just maybe that fish of a lifetime will end up at the end of your tippet.

Fantastic Yellows Video!

A great video shot by Chris Walley - Hunting Yellows on the Vaal

-Click here - Picture courtesey of Dirk Le Roux

What is a control fly?

“If your fly does not get to the bottom – where Yellow’s feed – you are not going to catch any fish!”

Call it the control fly, the middle dropper, the anchor fly or the weighted fly, in the end it all boils down to the same thing. The control fly is a suitably weighted fly that forms part of a multi fly rig with the purpose to control the depth of your flies.