Cradle of Troutkind?
It’s a perfectly still day and the Maden Dam reflects golden afternoon light off a tall krantz rising from the thickly forested Amathole Mountains. The mirror image of the tower on the dressed-stone dam wall ripples as a fish rises, sending the pulses of two fishermen balanced on its edge racing as they cast their flies in that direction.
The charm of the landscape, the excitement of the chase. This is what’s been bringing Peter Hein and Pedro De Abreu to fish the sweet headwaters of the Buffalo River outside King William’s Town since they were youngsters. This is the happy place of these two honorary life members of the Frontier Acclimatisation Society (FAS).
“It’s the oldest flyfishing club in South Africa,” says John
