The Kenya Fly Fishers’ club makes the Bullingdon look rather left-wing

Nairobi

Trout were first introduced into Kenya’s highland streams in 1905. Men like Ewart Grogan, ‘baddest and boldest of a bad bold gang’, shipped Loch Leven fingerlings in ice-packed chests to Mombasa and then up to the Rift Valley on the Lunatic Express. From there, porters carried them up into the misty, forested Aberdare and Mount Kenya slopes.

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The Kenya Fly Fishers’ club makes the Bullingdon look rather left-wing

But it’s a great example of how forgiving Africa can be and how we can all rub along

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