Your Personal Catch & Release Record
One of the major fishing events in Africa is the annual Okavango catfish run. This takes place during spring and early summer each year. The catfish run coincides with the dropping of water levels on the floodplains in the panhandle area of the Okavango swamps. All of the smaller fish species, such as bream, momyrids, robbers, minnows and catlets which have taken advantage of the flooded areas around the channels for breeding and shelter are […]
With the rising popularity of vertical jigging in its various forms a number of anglers are coming into contact with species of fish that they may not previously have encountered. This style of fishing does bring in a great variety of fish, including a number of predatory bottom fish species which would seldom, if ever be caught using other methods of fishing where the same depths are not reached by the lure or bait. […]
One of the latest crazes to hit the scene in salt water spinning is the use of stickbaits, particularly for spinning offshore. These lures are essentially an upsize of something that bass fishermen have been using with great success for many years in fresh water. They look something like a big Rapala with no lip, and come in a variety of models, sizes and colours. Until recently stickbaits were regarded with some suspicion by many […]
On a recent trip to the Transkei, where we fished some estuaries with light spinning tackle, one of the most rewarding ways of catching fish was on surface lures. I have always got a big kick out of fishing topwater lures. I enjoy being able to see the lure and have the opportunity to give it the most enticing action, and then of course being able to witness the smash, which is often as vicious […]
Tigerfish are Africa’s own freshwater game fish, they occur nowhere else in the world. There are five species of tigerfish on the African continent, of which three are considered to be prime angling species. The best known of these is Hydrocynus vitatus, the species that is caught in the Zambezi and Okavango river systems and southwards. Goliath tigers which occur in the Congo river are another and then Hydrocynus tanzaniae, the Tanzania tigerfish is the […]