With the recent COVID-19 pandemic, uncertainty and unpredictability have been simply unavoidable for everyone. As a result, the first return to Makhangoa Community Camp since the onset of lockdown, with the addition of two new junior guides to the team, was filled with nerves as well as excitement in anticipation of what was to come....
As with all good things, the Kalahari 2020 season has come to an end and been committed to the memory banks and backed up. All that is left are the memories and photographs and some sore cheeks from all the laughing. But the river keeps flowing, the fish continue to feed and fight the currents,...
The Orange River and the stark Kalahari is a place that can truly humble a person. The harsh sun and even harsher environment make your mind race, full of questions about how people have survived in this desolate landscape, from the current, large scale fruit farmers all the way back to the Hunter/Gatherer Nama people,...
For the 6th week of the Kalahari Wilderness Drift season we decided to change things up. Instead of running the usual trip on the upper +/- 30km stretch of river, we decided to fish the gorge section of the mighty Orange – a section that has not been fished by African Waters for nearly a...
For the 5th week of the Kalahari Wilderness Drift 2020 season we were joined by anglers Chris, Kieran, Dean, Paul, Farrel, and William. We knew we were in for a treat as from the the get go everyone got on like a house on fire. There was a lot of laughter around the camp fire...
It’s easy to fall into the calm that only a Kalahari fishing trip can offer, instead of the daily commute to the office guests are now hurriedly packing rafts and strapping down dry bags to answer the call of the water. Kelly, John and Piet had fished for Smallmouth Yellows at the Makhangoa Community Camp...
Largies demand an angler to be fully concentrated, period!Your gear needs to be up to scratch, your plan A, B and even plan C needs to be fully detailed and layed out, then we not even talking about your fly selection, presentation, and sink rate. So much thought and meticulous planning goes into successfully targeting...
After Week One on the Kalahari, we couldn’t contain our excitement, not only had we gotten the numbers, we had also been pulled on by some bigger fish. We felt our early season work, plans and recipe to finding and feeding fish were in order, and we were rearing to go for the next drift....
Not even the threat of two cold fronts coming through during the first drift of the season could dampen the spirits of the African Waters and Gravity guides teams as we prepared for the arrival of our first guests of the 2020 Kalahari Wilderness Drift Season at our base, Red Rock River Camp. With our Tanzania...
