yellowfish Archives - African Waters

October 12, 2023

Orange River Fishing Trips – Success Despite Challenging Conditions

Orange River Fishing Trips Orange River Fishing Trips: Last week, a massive cold front swept over the Cape region, resulting in significant flooding. Despite these challenging conditions, Viv and the crew on the Orange River managed to secure some impressive catches. The relentless wind and cloud cover at the front’s forefront posed a serious test...

August 31, 2023

Makhangoa – Camp Upgrades and Memorable Fishing in Lesotho

Makhangoa With winter approaching its end, things are ramping up for the start of the new season at the Makhangoa Community Camp. With this in mind, Chris King (a new addition to our guides team) and I headed up to Lesotho to do some maintenance, bring along building supplies, and offer our assistance with camp...

December 22, 2022

Lesotho – Mixed start to the season

Lesotho After an expected 4 hour drive became a 6 hour drive through the scenic mountain roads of Lesotho, the first group of the Makhangoa 2022 season arrived in camp. After a long day on the road Rob, Jan, Nitzan and Lindsay eagerly drove into camp. They were greeted by all the guides and camp...

December 2, 2022

Targeting largemouth yellowfish – Tricky weather tests both anglers and guides

Targeting largemouth yellowfish With a sudden drop in the water level it was shaping up to be a cracker start to the 2nd drift of the 2022 Kalahari Wilderness Drift season targeting largemouth yellowfish. Our guests arrived in hot dry weather conditions, but soon clouds rolled in and in a matter of minutes there was...

February 22, 2022

Makhangoa Community Camp Season 2022 – Week 5

Who would have thought that a group of septuagenarians could compete for the group of guests with the most gees for the Bokong season? They arrived in camp full of smiles, introducing themselves by their schoolyard nicknames and immediately began setting up rods for a quick late-afternoon and evening session in the sparkling clean water...

February 18, 2022

Makhangoa Community Camp Season 2022 – Week 4

“Davieeee, howzit boet, listen here, how is the river looking right now?”, screeches my phone with the war cry of an impending visit from the feather mechanic. “Bru, it’s flippen insane right now. There are more fish here than rocks”, I send back. And so began 5 days of some of the best fishing I...

January 20, 2022

Makhangoa Community Camp Season 2022 – Week 3

Gin-clear water. Sight-fishing. Dry fly heaven. These are terms familiar to anyone who regularly fishes the Bokong but are in complete contrast to the challenging conditions we have had for the last few days. A more accurate description of the last few days here would include terms like “monsoon”, “sludge” and “chocolate”. So what do...

December 1, 2021

KALAHARI WILDERNESS DRIFT – SEASON 2021 – Week 10

The last week of the 2021 season was a tough one, unexpected heavy rains unfortunately lifted the river level extremely high followed by brown water making the conditions far from ideal. Despite this the team set of with Tom and Gary from the USA in search of large mouth and small mouth yellows. The morning...

December 1, 2021

KALAHARI WILDERNESS DRIFT – SEASON 2021 – Week 9

Riding the success of the previous week the guys set out for the ninth drift of the season feeling confident that the fish would still be feeling and holding in the same water. Unfortunately this was not the case as upon arrival we were greeted with high water levels, a massive amount of water had...

November 3, 2021

KALAHARI WILDERNESS DRIFT – SEASON 2021 – Week 8

Heading into the eighth week of the Kalahari season with another new group of keen guests who had never fished the orange river, expectations amongst the guides were high following the previous weeks increase in volume and size of fish. We had that feeling that something special was going to happen, the river felt alive,...

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