Targeting largemouth yellowfish With a sudden drop in the water level it was shaping up to be a cracker start to the 2nd drift of the 2022 Kalahari Wilderness Drift season targeting largemouth yellowfish. Our guests arrived in hot dry weather conditions, but soon clouds rolled in and in a matter of minutes there was...
Largemouth Yellowfish The Orange River, known for its spectacular largemouth yellowfish numbers, originates in the mountains of Lesotho (Interesting fact: The Bokong River, which is home to the Makhangoa Community Camp is one of its highest tributaries). Flowing in a general westerly direction, it exits Lesotho, travels across the interior of South Africa into the...
Tigerfishing Week 6 welcomed anglers from around the world, namely South Africa, Zimbabwe, England and the USA. We couldn’t’t have hoped for more excited and diverse bunch of guys. Summer is officially here as the river comes alive! From the insects, to the bird life, the bank-side wildlife. Plus all the various fish species that...
Kalahari Some thumping tunes, a minibus full of excited guys, and a few empty beer cans, signaled the arrival of the first group of the 2022 season. It was clear that the 2022 Kalahari season going to get off to a great start. Hitting the water on day one we quickly realized that our quest...
Fishing in Gabon And we’re back! Just like that, another season at Sette Cama, fishing in Gabon, has kicked off. After 6 months away, the Sette Cama guides team, and guests were delighted to touch down in the Jungle piscatorial paradise of West Africa. But we were not greeted by the lush jungle as expected....
Tanzania Tigerfish It’s been amazing watching the season build and tigerfish numbers increase, as the days continue to grow longer. Each of the rivers is changing in their own way and each offering unique scenarios in which we target Tanzania tigerfish. This week marked the first sighting of dragonflies on the water coupled with the...
Tigerfish The first day of week 3 started superbly well, three hefty double-digit tigerfish met the net before lunch on Tim’s boat. No time to shake off the rust. The guys were off to a flyer. What happened to the slower mornings? The following day sang a different tune; the fishing was tricky across both...
Big Tigerfish From the hustle and bustle of major global cities to the tranquil and vast wilderness of the Kilombero Valley, the start of week two was beckoning with big tigerfish on everyone’s radar. Gear prepped, theories pondered and excitement unrivalled as the group of 8 anglers were split in two, one group from Frontiers...
How To guide Having over 14 years of personal experience fly fishing for tigerfish on the Mnyera and Ruhudji River in Tanzania, combined with our collective guides team experience, which adds decades more ‘on the water know how’, we are in a superb position to make sure our guests are fishing the correct tackle, set...
Fishing in Tanzania At long last, September saw the start of our season fishing in Tanzania. Excitement ran sky high with a bitterly cold winter season trailing in a wake as the guys made their way up to Tanzania. Both the Mnyera and Ruhudji rivers, laying home in the Kilombero Valley, received rain over the...
