Favourite internet rod building sites - Ed Herbst Wild trout on a Boshoff rod In the past thirty years I have searched constantly for the ultimate small stream fly rod. “Ultimate” in the sense of low mass, no flash and the lightest line possible – a rod that provides short…

ED’S INTERNET FLY FISHING – MAY 2010 The internet, as in all other aspects of human endeavour, has exponentially increased the information available to those interested in constructing split cane fly rods or assembling their own rods on commercially-available carbon fibre and fibreglass blanks. See Ed's article and the favourite websites…

Internet Fly Fishing by Ed Herbst In 2006, Ernst and Anchen Stofberg, a couple who farm at Rawsonville about an hour’s drive from Cape Town, gave me the opportunity to live in a house on their farm, Dwarsberg,  at a very reasonable rental. I will always be grateful to them…