SOUTH AFRICA: Just Got Back From 24 Days In Africa

[LivingTheDream]

Congratulations! You got some awesome animals. That bushbuck is amazing!

 

[Tally-Ho HUNTING SAFARIS]

Sounds like an amzing trip

 

[Nyati]

Congrats for a great hunt, and thanks for sharing !

 

[friendswoodmatt]

Wife has most of the pics— including her- much bigger tiger fish and footage of the Vundu I caught. I will ask her when she gets back from her frontal assault of the pigs that have taken over a couple of feeders here at home. Not sure why some pics upside down. I hooked many many tiger fish while we were there and only landed 4 — all small — lost a couple of big ones — well relatively — prob in the 5-6kg range nothing huge as it was still just th beginning of the season.
Moringa Bay is a very cool place — food was excellent, boats were very nice — We had tackle so I didnt see theirs to know what it is and if its good— Tiger fishing is contrary to any fishing I have ever done — as soon as you get one of these violent strikes — you plunge the rod into the water and reel and try and set the hook till the fish is near the boat— then do figure 8’s till they are tired and you can net them. Its not the standard bass fishing or offshore fishing strike and set the hook and keep the tip up kinda deal. These fish are hard to hook — hit like a Mack truck every time and are nuts when they feel the hook — most jump off quickly.
Oh and as a side note— Cahora bassa is not a place you want to swim or water ski — the week before we got there a woman was taken off the bank while washing laundry by a croc - the guide shared the is a very common occurance. On a brighter note —. The hippos here are much more chilled out than in the Zambezi or Chobe where I have fished before — in fact- our pattern was to look for hippos and fish rock piles near them. Only once in a dozen groups did we see any exhibitions of teeth or the warning calls — guides say its due to the fact they have tons of room and very little traffic. We did see some XL size thunder lizards cruising the coves though. They we very wary of us — unless they were sunning —