Tobi was our little dog who sadly left us recently after a good life of around 15 years. He was a cross between a toy Pomeranian and a baby polar bear. My wife, Belle, adopted him at a young age or more like he adopted her. The old lady who lived next door to Belle's [...]
Some drool-worthy aerial footage of the 2020 season on Lake Jozini, Pongola. The sequence that starts at 01:35 (featuring the croc and the tiger) epitomizes this fishery for me. Gareth Reid is a master on the drone tools, I can watch that over and over... With all the current rain up there the margins are [...]
Two weeks into Lockdown level 2, with international borders still closed, Jazz Kuschke goes in search of local tigerfish in South Africa at Lake Jozini to wash away the cabin fever. Up close and personal with some of the permanent residents Tigers, again. This time was different though. I’d not stamped a passport [...]
It’s an outdoor affair. The floor is wooden decking, the low walls traditional Zambian reed-work. A mokoro – planted upright – provides the perfect vehicle for the shower head. Warm water is from a fire-fuelled 'donkey' set a few metres back in the Mopane bush. Shower views That gloriously epic warm water is [...]
This is a trusty method to tie a braided wire/knottable wire setup, which is especially recommended for Tanzanian tigerfish (Jimmy Eagleton and I also used it with great success to catch our local snoek more recently). These tigers grow surprisingly big for the 'smallish' rivers they live in and due to the limited space and [...]
There are five tigerfish species that live across Africa and you may find that when you gain experience in catching each of them your techniques will change and your tackle preferences will also differ slightly for each species. I noticed this when I compared notes after fishing for tigerfish in the Zambezi River in southern [...]
Back in 2008 I had the opportunity to do a recce float trip down the Rio Olifantes - the Olifants River in Mozambique. This is a dig through those archives: “Bull…” Johan Klopper breathed the word more than mouthed it, as he ground the Landy to a hasty halt. About 100 metres up ahead, a [...]
The Tigerfish is Africa's answer to fly fishing. These power-fanged denizens produce rock hard strikes, generate unstoppable bursts of speed, and perform jaw-clattering summersaults. -Francois Botha. Fanged Creatures of Awesomeness I haven't caught enough of these fish. I want to catch more. I will catch more. However, my old friend Stuart Harley is catching lots [...]
