Skip to main content

Korrie Broos

He started fishing, from when he can just about start to remember, and living in Africa, gives him opportunities, to fish for "exotic species" unique to this continent.

2 comments
The author
Korrie Bros
Korrie Broos

Korrie Broos lives in Cape Town (the most beautiful city in the world according to himself).

He owns a furniture factory and when he is not busy with his company, he spends just about every free minute with something fishing related. He started fishing, from when he can just about start to remember, and living in Africa, gives him opportunities, to fish for "exotic species" unique to this continent.
Flyfishing made travelling a bigger lure, and fishing from Alaska in the North West to New Zealand South-eastern corner and Europe in the north to South Africa, and most of the places in between, the last axis left is the North Eastern corner of Asia and the Southern part of South America.

When fishing for trout, he is a self proclaimed nymphomaniac. With a preference to fish sub surface, in the various European nymphing styles.

He does part time guiding, to meet more friends (from all over the world) who share his passion and exchange ideas.
He has been a member of the South African fly fishing team to a couple of World Championships and Captain of the South African Commonwealth team 2010.

Articles by Korrie:

Yellow Fever

Imagine a fish that takes a fly as readily as a trout, whether it is nymph, a wet fly, or a dry fly. Czech nymph style, wet fly swing, North Country style or upstream dry fly. Now magine that, pound for pound, at least twice as strong as a trout

Tigerfish from my Verandah

When you speak to old timers about fishing for tigerfish on the Zambezi River they will tell you of driving along dirt roads, cutting a path through the forest to get access to the river. Lions still running wild, and while they fished elephants chased anglers away from the bank. This is not how it is today.

Chris Bladen

South African artist Chris Bladen has specialized in doing bronzes of wildlife - particularly fish. See some of his stunning work and read about the process of shaping and finishing bronze statues of tuna, flying fish, dorados, tigerfish and much more.

Sharks!

When two friends go down the road, for a late afternoon fly fishing session on the reefs, and take their #14 and #15 rods... You know that there is something radically wrong, upstairs. This is the story of the two friends Jacques Visser and Jimmy Eagleton who have taken on the South African sharks.

Craig Bertram Smith

The first time Korrie Broos saw one of Craig Bertram Smith's works of art was a pencil sketch he'd made to commemorate a trophy giant kingfish he'd caught, posted on a fly fishing forum.
The sketch was magnificent, and Korrie immediately sent Craig an email 

F&K Caddis

This caddis pattern has a great profile and an hot spot that can attract fish. It's been very successful for the originator, South African Korrie Broos.

X-Factor

South African summer is here and the fish are rising. And the X-factor fly makes them even keener to go for the surface fly

OSA Nymph

A generic nymph that can do equally well as a stonefly or mayfly nymph as it can a waterboatman or backswimmer

Takes

South African Korrie Broos has developed this "Chart of takes" to classify the takes and different methods to employ to fish for the takes or to trigger the take.

Sharon Burger

Sharon Burger is a modern day scrimshaw artist from South Africa. She does fine scrimshaw work for knife handles, inlays and more.

Gavin Erwin

South African artist Gavin Erwin paints wonderful pictures of fish and fishing - some colorful and abstract, some very naturalistic.

Sierra Nets

A Q&A session with California based landing net maker Greg Madrigal from Sierra Nets

Submitted by tom walraven on

Permalink

hello my name is tom walraven im comming to africa in dec and i realy wanne catch a tigerfisch but only big 1 not small can you help me whith that?and what is the price?greetings tom

Image gallery for Korrie Broos

Since you got this far …


The GFF money box

… I have a small favor to ask.

Long story short

Support the Global FlyFisher through several different channels, including PayPal.

Long story longer

The Global FlyFisher has been online since the mid-90's and has been free to access for everybody since day one – and will stay free for as long as I run it.
But that doesn't mean that it's free to run.
It costs money to drive a large site like this.
See more details about what you can do to help in this blog post.

The Global FlyFisher was updated to a new publishing system early March 2025, and there may still be a few glitches while the last bits get fixed. If you meet anything that doesn't work, please let me know.
Martin - martin@globalflyfisher.com