Walt Gear

Journal

Field notes from the people who build the gear and the places that test it. Stories from the water, the bush and the workshop. Written by the people who were actually there.

The Journal is where the reasons behind the gear live. Why the Kosi Hood took two years and five continents before it shipped. What a seam failure in Gabon taught us. Where the good fish are running, and what we wore when we found them. No press releases. No filler. Just the field, honestly reported.

The first dispatches are being written. Join the mailing list at the bottom of any page and we will send them to you as they land, alongside early access to new gear and the occasional Guardian story worth your time.

What we write about

The Field

Trip reports, conditions and hard-won lessons from rivers, coastlines and bushveld across Africa and beyond.

The Workshop

How the gear gets made, why we made the calls we did, and what we changed after it failed somewhere specific.

Conservation

The Garrick and Dusky Guardians, catch and release that counts, and the places worth protecting.