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 This website is dedicated
to promoting the wonderful flyfishing resources that the African
continent and it's coastline can offer. If you have any comments
or queries, please
feel free to e-mail us.
The Nile is a mighty long river starting,
for convenience sake, in Lake Victoria and ending up in the Mediterranean.
This means that, unlike most other African rivers, it flows northwards.
If you're romantic of inclination you can start your fishing in
 Lake Victoria for Nile perch If you're really keen
to see how a river the size of the Nile squeezes through a 10
metre cleft in the rock, you could
visit
Murchison Falls and have a go in the Devil's cauldron.on a bit of bundu bashing
through a piece of real Africa.
So
you've always wanted to visit Egypt, but were afraid to ask?
We learnt something monumental when invited to visit Tim Baily's
operation in the middle of the Western desert. Actually it's
the 500 kilometre Lake Nasser that takes the breath away and
which provides excellent fly fishing for Nile perch and tigerfish.
For
tracking the monster fish of the Sahara, click here
Zambia, Angola, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia. Mozambique
all share the Zambezi
river
on its west-east demarcation of Africa. In addition,this is one
of the best rivers for fly-caught tigers. However in the "upper"
river, not too far from the mighty Victoria Falls, there's ample
opportunity to take up cudgels with a double figure fish.
If you're
the reading type there's a book on the area entitled "Zambezi
Tiger" which
will give you all the know-how.
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THE
AFRICAN
TROUT
AND FLYFISHING
DIRECTORY
 For
more reading, view our sister site "The Southern African
Trout and Flyfishing Directory
FISH OF AFRICA
Africa has an outstanding
line-up of freshwater fish that are if interest to the flyfisher.
However, it is not only indigenous species such as the Nile perch,
tiger fish, tilapia and yellowfish that capture the imagination.
Both trout and black bass are to be found extensively within
the continent. All are there for your approval.
NILE PERCH
You
may well be surprised at that which the African continent can
offer the flyfisher. One of its many attractions is the enormous
Nile perch (Lates niloticus) found in many of the extensive
central African lakes such as Tanganyika, Victoria, Albert and
Turkana. And since it swims around in the Nile river system,
inhabiting both still and flowing waters, it's prolific all the
way to Egypt.
The Nile Perch, despite it's
size, can be taken on fly, very much in the same way as one might
stalk a trout. Only thing is, these "trout" grow to
400lb.
The above Perch weighed in
excess of 200 lbs and was a denizen of Egypt's Lake Nasser -
which, I might add - is an unforgettable experience in itself.
The recent visit by the "Flyfisher's Beat " TV team
landed perch to 27 lbs on fly.
By the way, Lake Nasser also
holds a good head of slim hard fighting tigerfish.
TIGER FISH
Talking of tigerfish, this magnificent
fighter has caught the imagination of a great many anglers over
the last few years. One would go many miles to find a freshwater
fish that strikes a fly quite so hard and
one can see from that set of dentures that it is not a fish to
take lightly. Many are the flies that have been ripped to shreds
by those teeth. but when they're in a frenzy, they'll hit the
last vestiges of wool hanging off the shank.
Naturally enough, anglers
north of the Limpopo river ( which bounds South Africa and Zimbabwe)
talk fondly of the Goliath tiger, for they reach 100 lbs and
more in the Zaire river, but the sub-species you are more likely
to tangle with is Hydrocynus vittatus. This is no stripling
for it can attain weights of over 40 lbs and flyfishers have
caught them approaching 20lb as far as we know. But you'll appreciate
the power of these fish if you get one like the about-to-be released
specimen below which didn't quite make 14 lb.
What's the success rate on
catching a tiger? It's said that for every 10 hooked, you should
land one.
Connecting a tiger to a rabbit
Tigers
of Western Zambia
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DIRECTORY ( BREAM, YELLOW FISH, TROUT AND BASS SECTIONS)
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