The celebrations of the new year seem like a distant memory and now that we’ve managed to sweat the holiday hangover in terms of work malaise out the system, it’s time to start planning your 2022 leisure cal […]

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 int […]

Why ten pounds is the benchmark for many fresh-water fish in terms of angling accolades is a bit of a mystery. The imperial yardstick and it being double digits would be my best guess. Admittedly this […]

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 i […]

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 […]

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 […]

I’ve never considered fly fishing to be a competitive sport, amongst anglers that is. It’s the fish you have to battle with after all, so another fly fisher can only really be considered company on the wat […]

It’s not often that you see anglers return from the water with very little to say, especially if they have even less to show for their efforts. To say the fly fishing was tough in the 3rd leg of the TOPS C […]