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...

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...

Imagine a fish so big that some call it the elephant of the river. Imagine it once inhabited the waters of 1/4 of the African continent in vast numbers. Now imagine, that largely unseen to the developed world, a wave of humanity has reduced all the rivers and surrounding landscapes to skeletal remains. But, right...