Fly Fishing for Tarpon in Africa A big brown snapper at last light. A baby tarpon from chocolate-brown water. A bull shark on the final night. This week at Sette Cama, on Gabon’s wild Atlantic coast, every fish was earned. The Crew and the Setup This week’s group of eight brought together friends from the...

Sette Cama Lodge The first week of the season at Sette Cama Lodge meant the guides’ shark-fishing spree finally ended, and work began. We kicked off with a fly-fishing group made up mostly of anglers from the UK, with one American and one Australian in the mix. It didn’t take long for The Ashes to...

Bull Shark This time it was guide Chris’s turn. With the heavy gear in hand, he connected to a giant bull shark. Instead of explosive runs, the shark used the backline to its advantage, digging deep and holding ground behind the waves. After a gruelling contest, brute force won out and the team landed one...

Bullshark Fishing It’s been a solid week of bullshark fishing in Gabon, made even better with Jako Lucas and his dad, Dirk, in camp. The two of them have been fishing together since Jako was a kid growing up in South Africa—mainly chasing ragged tooth sharks and bronze whalers on the Eastern Cape. So this...