The Lesotho highlands are a very far cry from the Miombo Woodlands of Zambia and Zimbabwe, and so the wilderness-hardened Southern African guests arrived with slack-jawed, breathless cries of “Mushe!” which I believe is Zimbabwean for “hectic”, “aweh” or “lekker!”. Unfortunately, they also arrived to a river that was completely brown after a serious overnight...
There are very few fairytales while Tiger fishing in Tanzania. It is completely true that taking an opportunity to fly fish for tigers on the Mnyera and Ruhudji rivers is to live out a fairytale, but when it comes to the actual landing of dream quality fish, the Tigers generally depart sharply from anything resembling...
After a long day of tackling Lesotho’s excruciating slopes and windy roads dotted with livestock, the guests finally made it into camp with enough time to fish an afternoon session. Between unpacking, setting up rods, and sorting out last minute tackle, one could sense the anticipation to get out onto the water and finally see...
We were joined this week by a mixed group of anglers from South Africa, Ireland, and the USA. The guys were eager to hit both rivers on fly & conventional, but the river gods had other ideas in store for us. A big flush of cold dirty water came down the Ruhudji and forced both...
It is difficult to put into words even a fraction of the experiences on the Ruhudji and Mnyera rivers during a week’s fishing. This week was no exception, with a brute being landed on the first morning of over 20lbs, plus another two fish breaking the 20lbs mark. One which actually pulled the scales all...
The last week of the 2021 season was a tough one, unexpected heavy rains unfortunately lifted the river level extremely high followed by brown water making the conditions far from ideal. Despite this the team set of with Tom and Gary from the USA in search of large mouth and small mouth yellows. The morning...
Riding the success of the previous week the guys set out for the ninth drift of the season feeling confident that the fish would still be feeling and holding in the same water. Unfortunately this was not the case as upon arrival we were greeted with high water levels, a massive amount of water had...
Before going to Tanzania, I had never even considered the possibility of successfully targeting any species of Distichodus on fly. However, this changed quickly once I arrived on the Ruhudji river for our Tigerfish season this year. Distichodus petersii (ndungu) are a large, vegetarian/fruit-eating species and are abundant when the right conditions present themselves along...
Heading into the eighth week of the Kalahari season with another new group of keen guests who had never fished the orange river, expectations amongst the guides were high following the previous weeks increase in volume and size of fish. We had that feeling that something special was going to happen, the river felt alive,...
Some you win and some you lose. With Tiger-fishing you will definitely lose more than you win. These toothy fish will roll on your fly only to abort their attack at the last nanosecond, leaving angler and guide alike dumbfounded as to what could have been. Sometimes they will devour a well presented fly and...
