After a few days off for the independence weekend break, the guides were eager to get back on the water and start the second phase of the season. Father and son team Dave and Chris drove into camp from Johannesburg and the rest of the group consisting of Johan, Janus as well as father and...
Bill arrived from the USA as our sole guest for the week. With four guides to one guest, and 120 km of water on the two rivers all to himself, we were confident Bill was going to have a productive week. Bill’s introduction the tigerfishing on the Mnyera in Tanzania was a chaotic.
After a week of resting the river, the arrival of the second group came with high expectations. With the Ruhudji in good condition and the Mnyera steadily improving we were hoping for a hot week. The trip to the Ruhudji with Scott, Sheila, Steve, Frans, Maggie, and Dave was very much uneventful and we arrived...
A passing cold front accompanying strong winds was going to put a damper on the good fishing we had experienced over the last few weeks. Pierre Wasserman, who had an accident prior to the trip and was badly injured, made the trip in spite of the pain he was experiencing to join his fishing buddies...
Delayed flights, dodging potholes and donkeys during the late evening transfer on a dark road in Africa, and a lost anchor early on the first day of fishing marked the start of an interesting 4 days on the water. Mike and Peter had to spend their first night in Maun after a 10 hour flight...
I’m sitting enjoying a cold Imperial Beer, one of Costa Rica’s finest lagers and it is GOOD. For the past two days we have really struggled, but finally it all came together this afternoon making this cold beer taste all the sweeter. In short, during the afternoon session between the 4 boats
The next group of anglers consisting of Graham, Ewan, Roberto, Alessandro, Steven and Duncan arrived at camp full of anticipation and eager to start fishing. Some members of the party were return guests, so expectations were high and the pressure was on. With the warm weather
The first group of the 2014 season in Tanzania consisted of three friends from Brazil. Celso, Pedro and Aline. Our guests arrived on the 6th of Sept, a late start to the season which generally gets under way in Mid August. Unfortunately late season rains had kept both rivers high
The Barbel Run Season on the Okavango River, Botswana kicked off with a false start as we arrived in camp to discover that the boat and jetty were trapped by a huge floating papyrus island. A channel had to be hacked through the obstruction
