Jun 23, 2026 · 1 hr 47 min · 16 segments
Long before he was chasing giant fish across the globe, **Christiaan Pretorius** was representing South Africa in international competition at just fourteen years old. Since then, his journey has…
Jamie HowardHost
You know, I spoke with Scott, you know, Scott DeBroom, you know, so I've got your bio, so there's no escape.
I think there's some things in the bio that I would love to read my bio that you've got there.
Oh, man, those days I was trying to do this in the proper order because there's so many places I'd want to jump with you, whether it's filmmaking, travel, fishing strategies, the South African upbringing, yellowfish.
And I was thinking maybe maybe we start we do this somewhat in order because like the back of a pickup truck, I could see us just sort of just chit chatting all the way down the road.
I think just of interest are the fact that if you're growing up in South Africa, that by its very nature is different anyway, but you were out in nature early and even competing early.
Most South Africans, most of my friends, we grew up hunting and fishing.
So our little South African group in the fly fishing community, we always kind of look at each other as like, how the hell did this happen? It's not a big thing.
But most kids grow up spending a lot of time being kids, you know, like the way you would picture it, like being out in the dirt and climbing trees and doing stupid things, you know, being on farms.
And we had a lot of access to pretty pristine and raw nature scenes as kids.
And for me, it was like at the age of six, my dad, who was a passionate fisherman and hunter, he kind of, it was in the same year that he basically taught me how to shoot a gun and how to cast a fly rod.
And that kind of set the tone for the rest of my life, not really knowing to what extent it would go, but that was the introduction, yeah, at a very young
You know, I spoke with Scott, you know, Scott DeBroom, you know, so I've got your bio, so there's no escape.
I think there's some things in the bio that I would love to read my bio that you've got there.
Oh, man, those days I was trying to do this in the proper order because there's so many places I'd want to jump with you, whether it's filmmaking, travel, fishing strategies, the South African upbringing, yellowfish.
And I was thinking maybe maybe we start we do this somewhat in order because like the back of a pickup truck, I could see us just sort of just chit chatting all the way down the road.
I think just of interest are the fact that if you're growing up in South Africa, that by its very nature is different anyway, but you were out in nature early and even competing early.
Most South Africans, most of my friends, we grew up hunting and fishing.
So our little South African group in the fly fishing community, we always kind of look at each other as like, how the hell did this happen? It's not a big thing.
But most kids grow up spending a lot of time being kids, you know, like the way you would picture it, like being out in the dirt and climbing trees and doing stupid things, you know, being on farms.
And we had a lot of access to pretty pristine and raw nature scenes as kids.
And for me, it was like at the age of six, my dad, who was a passionate fisherman and hunter, he kind of, it was in the same year that he basically taught me how to shoot a gun and how to cast a fly rod.
And that kind of set the tone for the rest of my life, not really knowing to what extent it would go, but that was the introduction, yeah, at a very young
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