Tigerfish are fairly easy to catch, aren’t they…? Television programs and viral videos always paint the picture of Tigerfish feeding constantly, aggressive and hungry all the time and eating anything and everything that dares cross their path. This is what I used to think until I got my first taste of the “Tiger Blues”So the truth is, tigers don’t feed constantly and they don’t eat anything and everything that crosses their path, in fact, most […]

Inside Angling was invited by Rico Sakko to fish in Morocco for white marlin in August 2017. Rico is an old friend who we have fished with in Angola many times, he had fished Morocco last year for white marlin and had an amazing experience. This year he was bringing his son, Vincent, who is 12 years old, and hoping to break the junior world record for white marlin. He also invited Henry Gradwell, an […]

Fishtube Prize Winners Part 1 I’ve never really been lucky… Except for a few line wins at Galaxy bingo and the Tweak shirt I caught at my first “rock concert” (if you can even call it that), my competition entry forms and lotto tickets seem to be chronically allergic to winning. I’ve always wanted to experience the call… you know the one where you answer and on the other end an over enthusiastic voice goes, […]

It’s that time of year again…  6 a.m in the morning and you’re carrying a 20 kilo 12-volt deep cycle battery in below zero temps to a cramped little inflatable boat, so you can drift down a vast river system that visually seems to have little to no life in it, hoping to catch a particular species of fish that appear to exist only in WhatsApp messages and facebook posts. At around 10 a.m you […]

The terms “Holy Grail” and “Fish of a thousand casts” have been flung around excessively in the world of fly fishing lately. So much so that it’s almost hard to take them seriously… When a group of accomplished anglers who are well respected spend an inordinate amount of time and effort to catch one species and they label said species as the “holy grail”, rest assured that the label is authentic  There is a specific […]