Ok, the blog is back. I have just arrived in the Free State in the town of Bethlehem. I will try and check back with every trip, which it seems it would be at least twice a week.

Today I spent most of the day getting the nest in order, carrying large heavy boxes, cleaning and unpacking, moving stuff around and re-arranging. My wooden cabin is something else and I have complete privacy.

But, in the afternoon I went to the local dam Loch Atlone. The dam is extermely overgrown with water grass up to about 15 meters out on the entire edge all around the shore line.

Had success on dry fly today with a PTN dropper. They left the floater alone and all went for the Pheasant tail nymph. Very interesting, I noticed that the Mayflies here are white. Tomorrow I'll set aside some time to tie down a few and see how they fare on the evening rise.

If all goes well i'll be hitting Sterkies in the next couple of weeks. I'm told that you can get both Yellows and Trout from the shoreline so lets see what happens when the time comes.

In the mean time when things calm down I'll try and post some drawings and technical information as well.