Seniors

Our Senior Division has become highly competitive over the past couple of years, seeing young dynamic anglers coming through the Provincial ranks into their A Teams ready to compete at the highest National level. With the phenomenal growth in numbers over the years, B Nationals is held to ensure all good up-and-coming anglers have opportunity to get into a ranking position should they perform well.

 

2025 Senior A Nationals

2025 Senior A Nationals was held in early April in the Underberg area of the majestic Southern Drakenberg, KZN. Hosted by KZNFFA on the back of an unpredictable and wet weather season for fishing overall, organisors were left to make final sector choices just days before the event started. River sectors were moved to higher sections of the Mlambonja River, the Mzimkulwana River and stillwater boat sectors included a section of the large Goxhill Farm Dam & the UHTFC Lunds Dam. Some beats of the river sectors produced decent numbers of fish, but the Stillwaters were the make or break for anglers, with Lunds Dam only recording one scoring trout over the five sessions, amidst a large number of non-counting bass that were caught. Top anglers reported that it was one of the most challenging SAFFA championships they had fished to -date. Western Province came out triumphant in the team challenge, but Brett van Rensberg (CG) took individual Gold after a fine overall performance. Well Done to Jeanette Harvey(Ladies Invitational Team) for the Lunds Dam Trout netted. As a training and development initiative, this year's Nationals included a Youth(Colts) Team & a Ladies Invitation team participating with the Provincial line-up, but not eligible for medals.  We thank the community members of the Underberg area for stepping up into the roles of controllers, and the local farmers and UHTFC for assisting with fishing waters used as plans were met with challenges and changes due to adverse conditions.

Head over to SAFFA Facebook for coverage of the event and results. Gallery to be added soon.

Results:

Indiv Gold -Brett van Rensberg(CG)          *Silver - Garth Niewenhuis (WP)               *Bronze - Stephan Nel(EC)

Team Gold - Western Province                     * Silver - Central Gauteng           * Bronze - Cape Winelands

Fly Tying award - Dan Factor (WP)                Casting award - Shaun Dickson(KZN)
Fishing in Friendship award - Brett Van Rensberg CG

 

Senior World Championship Team 2024

2024 saw a SASACC Team head to France for the Fips-Mouche World Championship hosted in the Southern region of Occitanie. The Championship comprised three river sectors, and two mountain lake sectors fished from the banks in rotating beat format. The team was a mix of experienced and new anglers to World Championship Level - Daniel Factor, Brett Van Rensberg, Barry Ubsdell, Matt Burgess & Shawn Driver.

France led from the start to take Team Gold, Spain the Silver & USA the Bronze, but our young team SA performed really well out of the twenty-two teams.
Dan Factor commented - "What an incredible two weeks! So proud of our team for hitting our top 10 goal, finishing 8th overall. I’m thrilled to have placed 11th individually.
Huge thanks to everyone for the support, especially our amazing support team, David Ferreras Fly Fishing and Aritz.
I am excited for the next few weeks of reflection and sharing lessons learned. Looking forward to building on this success with Team South Africa next year!

 Final results >  Fips-Mouche Senior World Championship 2024

Thank You to the many sponsors who support our SASACC Senior Team.

Senior B Nationals

Senior B Nationals 2024 offered up a real challenge in conditions to the anglers taking to the usually low crystal clear waters of the Maclear area in the Eastern Cape as a rainy frontal weather pattern moved into the area just days preceding. Rivers were high, milky and muddy across sectors but anglers got on with the job nonetheless. Most sectors produced multiple blanks in a session on the Pot river, with the final session five proving to be a little better in clarity and flow. Enthusiastic controllers from the local community kept the anglers spirits up as the team fought a close battle for gold medals.

The KZN team were victorious in the end with Central Gauteng B & C teams scooping silver and Bronze respectively. Dale Moore (CG) worked hard for his Individual Gold medal, whilst bronze medalist Sean Orr  did well netting the largest river fish. Visit our results page for the full results. Top ten individual receive an Invite into the A Nationals in April at Underberg, KZN. Find the event Gallery on the Galleries page.

 

 

 

Commonwealth Fly Fishing Championship 2023

The Commonwealth Fly Fishing Championship is held every alternate year and is hosted on rotation by a chosen member country. The beautiful Isle of Islay in Scotland was the fishing ground and hosting country to the 2023 Commonwealth Fly Fishing Championship. Our SASACC Senior Men's team really did us proud both on and off the water. They showed their ability to adapt on the lochs,  which are so very different to home waters in both style and the conditions they faced, finishing off with an excellent 4th position overall in the team standings.  To top off their pride, they came home with the Fishing in Friendship trophy, an award voted for by all the teams entered into the championship - Nicely done fellas!

2023 SASACC Team - Matthew Burgess, Marc Vicente, Gerrit Redpath, Stephan Nel, Shawn Driver