New Sean Mills DVD's

I recently had the opportunity to have a sneak preview at two of Sean Mills' new DVD's. The first one is "Fly Fishing for Bass and Bluegill in South Africa"

This new DVD take a different format that Sean's previous DVD's as this one is in a HTML format and is interactive. It opens in your browser and you browse through it just like you would on a web page.

In the DVD Sean covers all aspects of fishing for Bass and Bluegill in South Africa from when to fish, where to fish, the various techniques used, flies,correct knots to use right through to identifying the different species of bass.





 There is a good section on fly tying step by step patterns and some awsome pictures of bass and bluegill.

Screen shot from the DVD

Sean has some great underwater shots of bass

If ever there was anything that you needed to know about fishing for bass and bluegill in South Africa then you don't need to look any further than this DVD.

Fly Fishing for Bass and Bluegill in South Africa will be available soon through Sean' site SGM PRODUCTIONS, my Bid or Buy shop or Fly shops near you.

The second DVD is "An advanced guide to fly fishing Cape Streams"

This DVD takes the same format as the previous bass and Bluegill DVD, with the added bonus of having some great video clips thrown in.

Screen shot from the DVD

The section about Trout Food has some awesome macro pictures about all the life stages of the various insects that you will find on the  Cape streams and you will even find some underwater video footage of the insects.







Once again Sean covers all aspects of fishing the Cape Streams, from  the correct clothing and tackle needed, insects that can be found and imitated right down to the correct knots to use.

The DVD is extremely well laid out. While reading about soft hackle flies for example  you can click on a tab that will take you to a movie showing you how to fish them or another on how to tie them.

Screen shot of the soft hackle page with Video clip button

Sean covers all aspects of Cape stream fishing and teaches you how to fish and tie all the various flies from Nymphs, streamers, dry flies to Soft hackles. In the process you will find out what the real insects look like and how to imitate them.  You will find out when the seasons are, how to fish the different water levels during the season, the anatomy of the streams, how to get to the streams and much much more.

Learn where and how to fish a run

 As usual Sean's underwater pictures are brilliant and I can recommend this DVD to anyone that wants to learn more about fly fishing the Cape streams whether you are a novice or an expert.

An advanced guide to fly fishing Cape Streams will be available soon through Sean' site SGM PRODUCTIONS, my Bid or Buy shop or Fly shops near you.

Biot Nymph

One of my favorite nymph patterns that I use in the streams that I fish is the Biot nymph. I can whip out one of these in about three minutes and tie them in sizes 14 to 18, but my most productive one has been the size 18 black with a gold tungsten bead.

HOOK: Kamasan B175

BODY: Goose or Turkey biots

TAIL: CDL

THORAX: UV Ice dubbing

BEAD: Tungsten

TYING STEPS

STEP1: Slide your bead onto the hook and start your thread.

STEP 2: Tie in your CDL tail

STEP 3: Tie in your biot with the notch at the end of the biot facing down. Also add a dash of super glue over the tie in area to make the fly more durable.

STEP 4: Wrap the biot forward so that the edges of the biot form a rib. If you had tied in the biot with the notch facing up the body would be smooth.

STEP 5: Spin a thin noodle of UV Ice Dub around your thread.

STEP 6: Form your Thorax and whip finish.

Finished Fly

Happy new year

I would like to wish all of you a happy new year and may it be blessed with lots of fishing time, family time and good health. Since our clocks runs a little ahead of most of you that reads this blog from over the seas that separates our various countries, it means our headaches from celebrating the end of 2010 has already kicked in. I woke up this morning to some lovely cool rain so today will be spend lying in and recovering. In fact I am typing this as I lie in bed trying to convince the wife to make some coffee and possibly a greasy bacon and egg breakfast.

I did go out fishing yesterday to celebrate the last fishing day of 2010 and it was a super day on the streams. I don't have the energy to tell you all about it, but below is some pictures. I know that most of you are staring at very cold weather and snow, so please don't send any hate mail.

Also a big thanks to all of you for reading my humble little blog over the last few months and for all the comments that you made. Thanks to all of your own blogs this fishing addict on the southern point of South Africa has been able to fish far flung places with all of you and shared in your excitement of landing the next one. Keep it up.