Recent content by Otto W. Beck

Thanks for your story and the pictures. I don't know about any trout fishing in Tanzania. There are a number of trout streams on Mount Elgon both on the Uganda and Kenya side. Trout was introduced in Kenya by the legendary Lt. Col. Ewart Crogan in1905. This guy was a real piece of work. He fell...

Thank you for the informative article. I certainly know what happened during the post independent period. I wanted to find out about these particular tusks. Were they indeed from the elephant that killed George Hurst?

Hi, My name is Otto Beck. My connection to East Africa (Kenya) is fishing flies. I owned and managed a fly tying company in Kenya for many years. I've never done any big game hunting but did do a lot of bird and small game hunting. I'm presently working on a book of East Africa and the history...