tigerfish Archives - African Waters

January 23, 2023

African Waters – Final week if the 2022 Tanzania tigerfish season

African Waters Week 10 of the African Waters Tanzanian tigerfish season, the final dance and cherry on top of the cake. Both the Mnyera and the Ruhudji rivers upped the anti week in and week out, much to the delight of both guests and guides. Fish numbers had been steadily increasing as the stage was...

December 22, 2022

Tanzanian tiger fish – Penultimate week of the season

Tanzanian tiger fish With the way of the season, incredibly, improving each week; it was no surprise that the guide team were excited for the penultimate week of the Tanzanian tiger fish season to commence. The second to last week of the season welcomed an all American group of guests for one of the prime...

December 20, 2022

Tiger fishing – A week to remember for a very long time

Tiger Fishing Week 8 welcomed the X-Factor Angling team as they made their annual tiger fishing trip into the Kilombero Valley. What was to unfold was truly something no one could’ve scripted. This blog will in no way do it justice. The week started off with an absolute bang, the experience of Greg Ghaui and...

October 21, 2022

Tanzania tigerfish – a flyfishing week to remember

Tanzania Tigerfish It’s been amazing watching the season build and tigerfish numbers increase, as the days continue to grow longer. Each of the rivers is changing in their own way and each offering unique scenarios in which we target Tanzania tigerfish. This week marked the first sighting of dragonflies on the water coupled with the...

October 14, 2022

Tigerfish – a new camp record on the Mnyera River

Tigerfish The first day of week 3 started superbly well, three hefty double-digit tigerfish met the net before lunch on Tim’s boat. No time to shake off the rust. The guys were off to a flyer. What happened to the slower mornings? The following day sang a different tune; the fishing was tricky across both...

March 10, 2022

Gassa Camp – Cameroon – Season 2022 : Week 4

“Africa is not for sissies”, the thick bush in Cameroon along the Faro river is definitely the location that this saying originated from. Immense, debilitating heat, leaving you constantly covered in sweat. The Tsetse flies swarming around you from dawn to dusk trying their best to spill your blood and avoiding any attempt to swat...

January 27, 2022

Gassa Camp – Cameroon – Season 2022 : Week 1

With the 2020 season cut short as covid reared its head for the first time, and 2021 a non-starter, we were eager to get the first trip of the 2022 season at Gassa Camp under the belt. Not only would this be the first fly fishing on the Faro since March 2020, but we would...

December 3, 2021

Dhala & Samaki Camp – Tanzania Trophy Tigerfish Season 2021 : Week 8

There are very few fairytales while Tiger fishing in Tanzania. It is completely true that taking an opportunity to fly fish for tigers on the Mnyera and Ruhudji rivers is to live out a fairytale, but when it comes to the actual landing of dream quality fish, the Tigers generally depart sharply from anything resembling...

December 1, 2021

Dhala & Samaki Camp – Tanzania Trophy Tigerfish Season 2021 : Week 7

We were joined this week by a mixed group of anglers from South Africa, Ireland, and the USA. The guys were eager to hit both rivers on fly & conventional, but the river gods had other ideas in store for us. A big flush of cold dirty water came down the Ruhudji and forced both...

November 29, 2021

Distichodus petersii (ndungu) on fly

Before going to Tanzania, I had never even considered the possibility of successfully targeting any species of Distichodus on fly. However, this changed quickly once I arrived on the Ruhudji river for our Tigerfish season this year. Distichodus petersii (ndungu) are a large, vegetarian/fruit-eating species and are abundant when the right conditions present themselves along...

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