Nile Perch With Gassa Camp, once again built in in the shade of the riverine forest on the banks of the pristine Faro River, we were excited to welcome the first group of the Nile Perch season. A group consisting of Brian Gies, accompanying husband and wife duo Brian and Pamela from the USA and another...
African Waters Week 10 of the African Waters Tanzanian tigerfish season, the final dance and cherry on top of the cake. Both the Mnyera and the Ruhudji rivers upped the anti week in and week out, much to the delight of both guests and guides. Fish numbers had been steadily increasing as the stage was...
The Craft The Craft presents a film about Gordon Van Der Spy, “The feather mechanic”, a master fly tyer who gives us his thoughts and philosophy on the craft of fly fishing and his passion for fly tying. Shot on location at the African Waters, Makhangoa Community Camp in Lesotho a country in the highlands...
Shuttlecock Next up in our smallmouth yellowfish flies series is the famous shuttlecock. Shuttlecocks are a simple dry fly pattern which are very popular in the UK and Europe. The magic of shuttlecocks is the way they sit in the water and not on the water. All of the flotation is provided by the cdc...
Fishing in Lesotho A second week on at the Makhangoa Community Camp offered up a gin-clear and low river for the guests to enjoy. After a very successful first week fishing in Lesotho on the Bokong river with high catch numbers on dry fly, things were looking good for a fresh group of clients. The...
Lesotho After an expected 4 hour drive became a 6 hour drive through the scenic mountain roads of Lesotho, the first group of the Makhangoa 2022 season arrived in camp. After a long day on the road Rob, Jan, Nitzan and Lindsay eagerly drove into camp. They were greeted by all the guides and camp...
Tanzanian tiger fish With the way of the season, incredibly, improving each week; it was no surprise that the guide team were excited for the penultimate week of the Tanzanian tiger fish season to commence. The second to last week of the season welcomed an all American group of guests for one of the prime...
Tiger Fishing Week 8 welcomed the X-Factor Angling team as they made their annual tiger fishing trip into the Kilombero Valley. What was to unfold was truly something no one could’ve scripted. This blog will in no way do it justice. The week started off with an absolute bang, the experience of Greg Ghaui and...
Klinkhammer With summer in full swing in southern Africa, we thought now would be a good time to share some of our absolute favourite patterns to use when sight-fishing to smallmouth yellowfish at the Makhangoa Community Camp in Lesotho. First up in this short series is one of our absolute favourite patterns – The Klinkhamer. The...
Largemouth Yellowfish Flies In all our groups prior to this one, we had most of our success coming from swinging largemouth yellowfish flies from faster water into slower moving eddy’s where we believed fish would be holding. This time however things were different. Majority of the fish were caught by accurately placing flies behind boulders...
