Fly Fishing for Tigerfish After their second trip to the Mnyera and Ruhudji Rivers in as many years, Chris and John became our first guests of the season at Shangaa Camp on the Nyerere Dam (also known as Lake Nyerere) in Tanzania’s Nyerere National Park. Their trip was a tigerfish double-header, and it shows both...
Shangaa Tigerfish Camp There are very few genuinely new fly-fishing destinations left in Africa. Most of the continent’s iconic fisheries have long since earned their place on every serious angler’s bucket list. On the tigerfishing front, the latest discoveries being Tanzania’s legendary Mnyera and Ruhudji rivers (Hydrocynus tanzaniae) , the Chinko in CAR (Hydrocynus goliath),...
Nyerere Dam Nyerere Dam is opening a different kind of tigerfishing opportunity in Tanzania, and it is important to say this clearly from the start. The Shangaa Tigerfish Experience is not here to replace Dhala and Samaki Camps. Those fisheries on the Mnyera and Ruhudji Rivers remain the flagship Tanzania tigerfish experience within African Waters....
