Inside Angling and Wildfly recently did a trip to Matoya Lodge in Zambia. Matoya is in the Barotse floodplains area, in Western Zambia, and is one of my favourite parts of the Zambezi  River. I have put together a daily report on the trip: We met at King Shaka International and flew from Durban to Lusaka on Pro Flight. Our flight departed Durban at 1pm and landed in Lusaka at 3.30pm.We were collected at Lusaka […]

What a privilege it was to be invited to fish the Kasai Channel and the Chobe river at Ichingo Lodge recently. I was accompanied by Fishtube prize winner, Werner Nell, a keen artlure angler who had never caught a tiger fish before, and was amped to add this iconic African species to his list of fish. We flew to Kasane International airport in Botswana, where we were collected and transferred to the pick up point […]

As I wait for the sardines to make their appearance this year, I started thinking more about the sardine run and what it is all about. Each year during July, we generally get a migration of these tasty baitfish making their way up the KZN South Coast, accompanied by masses of sharks, gannets, dolphins, whales and game fish. The sardines themselves are in fact Southern African pilchards, Sardinops sagax, which form dense shoals and often […]

Winter is officially here, with cold spells having been upon us since mid April already, the fishing in the estuaries has changed from the summer species and techniques to those we traditionally expect during the cooler months.  Some of the summer species have left our rivers, and some have gone off the bite. Others have arrived and can be targeted in different ways. Winter usually means tougher fishing, with less catches, but there are some […]