{"id":963,"date":"2017-03-29T17:56:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T15:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/?page_id=963"},"modified":"2021-12-20T10:15:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T08:15:36","slug":"tackle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/articles\/tackle\/","title":{"rendered":"Tackle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A yellowfish caught by Marcel Terblanche using his ultralight Triple S (Small Stream Special) fly rod.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Ed Herbst writes: <\/strong>The 2017 Wild Trout Association Festival held annually in Rhodes produced an interesting example of how fly rod technology has advanced. Fishing the Kraai River, Marcel Terblanche<\/a> hooked and landed two yellowfish, one of close to two kilograms on a six and a half foot, 2-weight rod which he had built and which weighs less than one ounce. He was using a 5x tippet.<\/p>\n

Short fly rods<\/a> cast tighter loops than longer rods and are more efficient fish-fighting tools which is why rods used to catch big marine species like bluefin tuna are always short.<\/p>\n

The clear, shallow trout streams near Cape Town have always favoured ultralight tackle and in 1974 Peter Turnbull-Kemp wrote in a Piscator<\/em> article, \u2018The Waters of Lilliput\u2019, about using the first \u2018Whisper Rod\u2019, the six foot Leonard Baby Catskill which weighed one ounce.<\/p>\n

I have outlined the chronology of the ultralight approach that members of the Cape Piscatorial Society have followed in the past two decades in two articles<\/a> on Tom Sutcliffe\u2019s Spirit of Flyfishing <\/em>website<\/a> and all the articles on this subject that have appeared in Piscator <\/em>will be reflected in this folder.<\/p>\n

Capetonians are fortunate to have access to outstanding craftsmen like Stephen Dugmore<\/a>, Stephen Boshoff<\/a> and, more recently, Marcel Terblanche all of whom continually strive to produce rods which enhance the pleasure of fishing the \u2018Waters of Lilliput\u2019.<\/p>\n