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Dreamer and do’er, caught in the drift. Embracing a second shot at a life worth living… Fish to Adventure | Adventure to Fish

South Africa's my stomping ground.

The world my oyster.

14/11/2025

Go find your reason to smile - you deserve to!

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11/11/2025

is mine to own. It’s not open to interpretation and need not be understood. If that sounds selfish I’m sorry, but it’s about time I claim this thing as my own.

🥊 My autism is about big emotions and feeling too much. It’s about fight or flight every waking hour, and also in my sleep. It’s about intense reactivity and painful over stimulation. It’s about running on empty. All the time.

🐟 My autism is about getting used to an underlying sense of wrong, before I knew what right was. It’s about a life on the periphery of the mainstream, always wondering what it means to understand. Let alone be understood.

💊 My autism is about ADHD, OCD, depression and anxiety. It’s about diagnoses, misdiagnoses and late diagnoses. It’s about medication, and lots of it. It’s about too many ingredients and no chef.

🎭 My autism is about being my own biggest frustration, every day for as long as I can remember. It’s about designing elaborate masks to wear when all else failed. It’s about finding safety in mimicking when I couldn’t otherwise. It’s about fooling myself to fool the world.

🥂 My autism is about desperate attempts at regulating my experience - often very ill conceived and badly misguided. It’s about substances and rehabs. It’s about Yeats and Ozimandius.

⚖️ My autism is about negative affirmation becoming enough. It’s about normalising lying as a means to survive. It’s about trying to control something that can’t be controlled. It’s about dancing on an earthquake.

🪄 My autism is about failing so many times that trying became scary. It’s about making myself happy only to disappoint the world. It’s about making myself sad so others could be happy. It’s about convincing myself I don’t give a f**k so I didn’t feel I was letting others down. It’s about the magician realising magic isn’t real.

🔥 ⛈️ The fires that burned me now fuel my conviction. The storms I hid from now fill my sails. There’s still a long road to travel before I fully come to grips with this thing, but I’m on that road. And I’m running…

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10/11/2025

• BUSINESS END • The last thing your fly sees…

I hadn’t started my retrieve when this one struck the moment the fly hit the water. An orange and olive Whistler, if I remember correctly. Still scrambling for proper contact, the fish ran me through the pool, around timber and into a rapid below. It’s uncanny how quickly things escalate with a Tiger on the line. Stu had me covered and I was fighting it from the boat shortly after, now with tension on the line but still wonderfully out of control.

The week with left me with a newly found and intensely deep obsession. If trout fishing’s ballet, tigers are bareknuckle boxing. It’s about time I find, and maintain, a balanced relationship between these two extremities of this pursuit.

The Malagarasi River is, without a doubt, the most beautiful fishery I’ve had the opportunity to visit. This is a very personal statement to make, and the location will probably not tick everyone’s boxes. That’s not my decision to decide. I know I can only dream of returning for much more than just the fishing. It really does boil down to the small things for me and I reflect happily on Firetail’s slick operation, the mist in the morning, insane birding, dreamlike drifts, “Apocalypse Now” flashbacks, a complete disconnect and, also yes, the possibility of an angry dinosaur on every cast.

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22/10/2025

•WAXIN’ LYRICAL• Small stream rainbows don’t grow big, but they sure do grow pretty. These early season numbers specifically. In full bloom. A mesmerising kaleidoscope of infinite colour. Prismed light on water. Each scale a gem faceted by ancient time and perfect intention.

Slipping as subtly from my life as it did surprisingly into. We are done. For now…

Rod: 8’8” 2wt Origin I
Reel: Origin Clicker Series

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04/10/2025

• HALFTIME • Went for a prospective flick during the Boks’ halftime and never made it back to hear the final whistle. Had all the intentions to though, but I got sidetracked and then time did that thing where it feels slow but goes fast…

Fished two of my all time small stream favourites:

• RFF 8’8” 2wt Origin
• RFF 7’8” 3wt Glass Canon

Both rods have things going for them, both in their own right, neither of which I’m not going to go into detail about now. They fish really well, and I enjoy them both incredibly much.

I fished a RFF Origin Clicker under the 2wt and a RFF Origin 3/4/5 under the Glass Gun. Not that I spent hella time in my backing or anything special. With that said, a good reel makes up a crucial part of any encounter. The Clicker’s such fun on the 2wt, and the connection with the fish on the other end feels unrivalled. On the Gun, the 3/4/5wt Origin Reel sits wonderfully balanced - it’s all there, and I need simply slow down to find harmony in tight casts and a subtle delay which makes everything feel so darn smooth.

Lesotho loading! I could not be more psyched…

Reel Fly Fishing Orial Outdoor

25/09/2025

First few fishing the Malagarasi River with went so quick! A stunning fishery with spectacular birding to complement tricky, but rewarding, fishing.

Tomorrow we kick into the second round of a 3 day cycle. We’ll be fishing the same water we fished on Day 1, and I hope what I learned these past 3 days will come into play.

Flipping love flicking flies at these beautiful brutes. Such a grind - makes the reward all the more worth it…

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09/09/2025

Ready or not! Can’t wait to dip my toes in some Cape Stream fun this summer…

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16/07/2025

Make something you’re proud of. Then make it better…

15/07/2025

The “Babe, I can explain.” Despite never working I still fall back on it all too often.

Special shoutout to for putting up with my sh*t…
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14/07/2025

Golden hour in the foothills of the Patagonian Andes. I remember this moment so clearly, so intensely - almost more so than the moment itself, the memory remains. One day I’ll go back, and I’ll take my son with me…
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13/07/2025

• Proof of Concept • Great afternoon spent with and from testing the concept behind what I hope will one day become , and it worked!

We tied up a selection of three flies, all destined for the Malagarasi River where they’ll target Tigers with the outfit end September. Not sure what to be more excited for - the birth of or the trip ahead! A big thanks to Pierre and Stream & Sea for guiding us through the ties with knowledgeable patience and many a chuckle…
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12/07/2025

Lil homeslice done his first the other day…

Jokes aside, with almost 8 months under the belt, Wilder still has to see the screen-side of a device. How’s that squinty? 😂

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