Ed Herbst writes: The Cape Piscatorial Society traces its origins to 1902 when the Western Districts Game Protection Association amended its title to include "Trout". The Western Districts Game and Trout Protection Association represented angling interests in the Western Cape until 1931, when it was reconstituted as the Cape Piscatorial Society.
As indicated in the article on the history of the Society on this website, the late AC Harrison, the founder of the CPS in its present form, published the first issue of Piscator in March 1947 and it became a valuable repository of articles tracking the evolution of fly fishing in this country.
This folder will seek to make the best of those articles part of a permanent internet record which is accessible to anyone with a computer.
A C Harrison forwarded letters and articles which he considered historically relevant to what was then the J L B Smith Institute of Ichthyology at Rhodes University in Grahamstown and those papers have been retained as archival records in the library of what is now the Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science at the university.
- The Foundation of the CPS in Nov 1931
- Honour conferred on AC Harrison - Alan Yates
- Arthur Cecil Harrison - Frank R Bradlow
- Mr AC Harrison - A tribute - Dr Douglas Hey
- Smalblaar newcomer – 1962 – Mark MacKereth
- Smalblaar newcomer – 2010 – Matt Zilliox
- HTA – 100 years young – Giordano Zamparini
- Mark MacKereth – Flyfisher supreme – Pieter Cronje
- Remembering Mark Mackereth - Geoff Godley
- A Fly Fishing Life - Harry Stewart
- One Hundred Years of Trout in Natal - DJ Alletson
- The historical Jonkershoek hatchery - Ryan Weaver
- An Historical Review of Freshwater Fish Hatcheries in Natal - T Pike
- Angling in the Maclear District 1928-32 - Douglas Hey
- Editorial - The Foundation of the CPS in Nov 1931
- Indigenous South African Flies-A Chronology - Ed Herbst
- Introduction of Trout to the Western Cape & the origins of the CPS - John Ness
- Review - The Rapture of the River - SA Hey & AA Balkema
- The First Use of Artificial Flies in SA - Frank R Bradlow
- Trout in South Africa - newspaper cutting book of W Wardlaw Thompson
- Trout stocking controversy - Nicholas PE James
- Trout stocking controversy part 1 - Dean Impson
- Trout stocking controversy part 2 - Nicholas PE James
- A Wickhams on the Smalblaar - A Mark Mackereth
- My introduction to trout culture in South Africa - FG Chaplin
- The Olifants / Doorn River System and Its Fishes - AC Harrison
- Angling in the Uplands - ACH 8-2-1946
- Witte River Above Bains Kloof Wellington: Circular No 33 June 1939 - AC Harrison
- Helicopter stocking of the upper Elandspad - Campbell Lyons
- My Introduction - FG Chaplain
- Trout in the Peat-Stained Waters of the Sourthern Cape
- Spoornet/FOSAF Trout Expo a Great Success - Ed Herbst
- Aquatic Invasives Seminar - Fred Croney
- Expo 89 ... and After - Ed Herbst
- Lakenvlei Ski-cabin Christened - John Taunton-Clark
- The Flyfisherman - Roger Baert
- The Early History of Trout Acclimatization in South Africa
- Piscatorial Personalities: Roger Baert - Ed Herbst
- The Firsts: Bluegills
- Piscatorial Personality: Leigh Perkins - Ed Herbst
- The Liesbeek River
- B-E Hatchery Success Story - Ed Herbst
- Early days on Cape streams – Peter Arderne
- Fish communities in the Witte River – ND Impson & A Bok
- Florida Bass – T Pike
- Translocation of indigenous freshwater fishes – Dean Impson & Rebecca Tharme
- HTA 100 years young - Giordano Zamparini
- Keurbooms River, Southern Cape-home to centuries old brown trout and the biggest redfin population in the fynbos biome? Dean Impson & Ernst Swartz
- Trout in SA: A case for genetic studies - John McLachlan
- Introduction of Exotic Fish to Swaziland - D. Clay
- Centenary Issue of Piscator December 1977 - 100th anniversary
- A.C. A Personal Farewell - John Beams
- The Clanwilliam River It is not yet too late - C.M. Gaigher
- The Nine Earliest South African Books on Trout Fishing - Frank R Bradlow
- Alfred Mark Mackereth
- Some Cape Trout Streams Part 1 - Ernest Glanville
- Some Cape Trout Streams Part 2 - Ernest Glanville
- In Memory of Frank Bradlow 19 Jun 1913 - 12 March 2000 - Tony Biggs
- The Story of A SA Flyshop... and its proprietor - Ed Herbst
- Fresh Water Fishing at the Cape South Western Districts - AC Harrison
- Big Trout of the Rivers of the Western Cape The Juncion Pool - Mark Anderson
- C. Ross-Munro - Lawrie Kingma
- CPS Coup - Story and Pictures by Ed Herbst
- Bass in Southern Africa - Brian Carcary
- Trout in Big Lakes - Malcom Meintjies
- Lakenvlei Ski-cabin Christened - John Taunton-Clark
- A Tribute to my Friend - Tom Sutcliffe