Standing Out Magazine | NOVEMBER 2022
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More than a game of tag
Jonathan Boulton knows that the earth is experiencing massive changes. “Reading about it on your news App, or sitting with your children through David Attenborough’s A Life on Our Planet is one thing but, experiencing it worsening every year in the context of many different global settings is a
We sat down with an internationally renowned adventure fly-fishing guide to talk about the future of tourism
very different situation,” he says. Boulton founded Mavungana Flyfishing in Dullstroom in 1997 and has since run premium guided trips to target exotic fish species on fly-fishing tackle – from Atlantic salmon in Russia to peacock bass in the Amazon and giant trevally in the remote atolls of the Indian Ocean, among others. As he’s fished some of the finest waters of the world people often ask him what is my favourite fish or destination is. “While I maintain picking a favourite fishing destination is impossible, if I were given just one more week to fish in my life, it would be for African tigerfish,” he says, waxing on about how special it is to drift past shores rich in bird life and wild animals;
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