Twenty years ago I inherited a split-cane fly rod in a box with a Condex fly reel loaded with bottle green sinking line from my Father. The rod and box were falling apart but I kept the reel. I am a keen bass fisherman but I did borrow a fly rod from a friend once and tried my hand at fly fishing about 15 years ago. needless to say, I wasn't too successful casting although "roll casting" was alright, but that was as far as it went.
Recently while fishing for bass from my boat on the Vaal dam and seeing fish rising all around me, my thoughts turned to fly fishing again. I modified an old unused 7ft fibreglass rod and mounted the Condex on to it.
On February 12 this year after the Vaal dam overflowed I went down to the river with my Bass equipment and caught 4 yellowfish, one a largemouth, on Rapala. The following day I took my "fly rod" with and caught two fish on fly as well as others on the bass rods.
