Your Personal Catch & Release Record
There are two species of triggerfish that are hunted by fly fishermen on the shallow flats of Indian Ocean atolls. The yellow margin triggerfish and the larger titan triggerfish. Both of these fish are extremely challenging to catch. They are nervous and shy and extremely aware of everything happening around them. Triggers cruise around the shallows, tailing and feeding oil chunks of coral, crabs, worms and shrimps that they come across in their wanderings. They […]
While fishing at Zambia’s Matoya Lodge recently, on the upper Zambezi river, the wind got up quite strongly and the tigers went off the bite. After some hours of fruitless casting at tigers that weren’t interested in feeding I had to come up with another game plan to save myself from wasting precious Zambezi time. I had long wanted to catch a humpback largemouth bream in the area, having only caught a few of them […]
When it comes to catching big tigerfish, one of the most important considerations is to fish in remote areas that don’t get a huge amount of fishing pressure. The Barotse floodplains area on the upper Zambezi is just such a place. I was fortunate enough to visit Matoya lodge in this area in September. Getting to this isolated area involved a flight from Johannesburg to Lusaka on SA Airlink, then a charter flight from […]
Covid 19 has cost us a year and a half in fishing experiences. For the past 18 months or so we have been unable to travel out of the country and this has impacted on us fishermen. There are places that we have been unable to visit and species that have been unavailable to us. The species that I have missed the most is the GT. These hard fighting bruisers are a species that I […]
Those of us who are fathers, all go through the process of watching our kids grow up and develop into the young people that they are destined to become. There are various rites of passage which stand out during those years. For me as a fisherman, none stand out quite so much as the fishing milestones achieved along the way. I was blessed with a daughter, which means that my fatherhood experiences have been a […]