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Fishing Info, Tips,
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Tiger fishing trips and Tiger Fishing Safaris to the best
tiger fishing destinations in Africa. We offer Combo Tiger fishing
packages which can include any of or all of the following destinations
or anywhere else you would like to go in Africa:
Tiger fishing in the Okavango River - Namibia, Botswana
Tiger
fishing in the
Okavango
Delta -
Botswana
Tiger
fishing in the
Zambezi
River -
Zambia, Zimbabwe,
Mozambique
Tiger
fishing in the Chobe
River -
Botswana
Tiger
fishing in the
Kariba
Dam -
Zambia, Zimbabwe
Tiger
fishing in the
Cahora
Bassa Dam
- Mozambique
Tiger
fishing in the
Jozini
Dam
- South Africa
Tiger
fishing in the
Corumana
Dam -
Mozambique
We
arrange all planning,
transport, back-up and support,
tiger fishing tackle, tiger fishing boats, internal flights within
Africa.
Best
Tiger Fishing
Destinations
We run organised trips to the following
destinations:
Okavango River - Namibia,
Botswana - Best Tiger fishing - All year round
Okavango Delta - Botswana
- Best Tiger fishing - When the waters are receding from August to October
Zambezi River - Zambia, Zimbabwe,
Mozambique
- Best Tiger fishing - All
Year
Chobe River -
Botswana
- Best Tiger fishing - September,
October
Cahora Bassa
Dam -
Mozambique
- Best Tiger fishing - All
year
Jozini Dam
- South Africa
- Best Tiger fishing - September
to March
Corumana Dam
- Mozambique
- Best Tiger fishing - August
to April
Tiger Fishing Info,
Tips, Techniques
Tiger
fish are a highly
aggressive
freshwater game fish species which occurs in Africa south of the
Equator, occur as far south as the Pongola River and the dam which it
feeds, the Jozini Dam in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Tiger fish occur from the Eastern borders of
South Africa
and central southern Africa (Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana) but are absent
in the west flowing Kunene River, which forms the border between the
Namibia and Angola . Tiger fish enjoy warm water with a high oxygen
content.
The Okavango delta is situated in the north of Botswana and is one of
earth’s last unspoilt wilderness areas and one of Africa's best
tiger
fishing destinations. The Okavango Delta offers a
huge variety
of tiger fish habitats varying from weed beds and reed beds to sand
banks, fast flowing deep channels and shallow flats, providing endless
excitement for those lucky enough to get here and do some real tiger
fishing.
Tiger fishing Tips
Tiger
fish
are predators and one uses similar bait, lures and techniques
that you
would to catch other aggressive game fish like the
Tiger fish.
Tiger fishing techniques include using livebait (Tilapia, Chessa,
Bottlenose, small tiger fish), dead baits including Capenta, sardine,
shrimps, chicken liver and ox heart.
These baits can be fished on the bottom when the tiger
fish are moving deep and on a float with a varying
length
leader when the tiger fish are feeding nearer to the surface. Fillets
and strip baits can be trolled slowly for tiger
fish. Tiger
fishing with live bait is exciting because the tiger
fish hits the bait at full speed!
Spinning and
spooning
are popular and
successful tiger fishing
techniques. These tiger fishing
methods work well in
faster-moving water and when the water is not very clear and the tiger
fish are hunting actively near the surface. Allowing spoons and
spinners to sink to near the bottom works well to lure tiger fish from
deeper down, especially when the sun is high.. Yellow and red Meps no.3
& 4 spinner, silver and copper spoons 1- 4 inches in length
where
there are smaller tiger fish and
larger ones for the
giant Tiger fish.
Drop Shot
lures (soft
plastics) work
very well for tiger
fish and on light tackle, tiger
fishing with
drop shot lures can be fun for days until all your plastics have all
been shredded (and you use anything including your favorite fishing
shirt to cut strips, soak them in some sardine juice and hook them
on!).
Tiger
fishing with dropshot
is a good technique
in fast moving or calmer waters and allows one to work the entire water
column effectively for shallow or deeper moving tiger
fish.
Start with blue green and silver, try other colours if those are not
working on the day, but tiger fishing
with dropshot
tends to be more successful with realistic colours. Try to copy the
colours of what you think the tiger fish are feeding on.
Hard plastics
(eg. Rapalas, Halco etc) are very effective artificial baits
for many types of game fishing, including tiger
fishing.
Once again, tiger fish prefer realistic colours. For tiger fishing,
having some deep diving lures in your box is essential when the tiger
fish are deep and you can get hold of bait.
Fly Fishing
for tiger fish is one of the best forms of game fishing and
pure adrenalin. 8 to 10 weight fast action rods are required. The reel
you choose for tiger fishing must be balanced to the weight of your rod
and must have a disc drag system as tiger fish are notorious for
burning out reels in there first 50 meters of their run. Your reel must
also be able to hold about 200 meters of braid backing for those giant
tiger fish.
Nothing less
than an 8 weight rod should be used as heavy fast sinking lines need to
be thrown maximum distances.
I recommend
anything from at least a 250 grain to 300 grain fast sink shooting head
with fused running line similar to that of the airflow depth finder
shooting head system. Alternatively a DI6 or DI7 weight forward but the
reason I prefer shooting heads is that presentation isn’t that
important with tiger fish but rather being able to achieve maximum
casting distance, very important for productive tiger fishing.
Fly Colours
for tiger fishing change according to the time of the year and water
clarity but I always have red/yellow/white; blue/white; green/white;
chartreuse/white and plain black deceivers, polar fiber minnows and
clousers in my box. But bring as many different types of flies as you
can on your tiger fishing trips with you. Don't be scared to try
anything new and neither are the tiger fish, it seems.
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