Fishing slow as Okavango River rises, filling up the floodplains

Okavango river in Namibia 

The Okavango River water level increased significantly since November 2013 with water now (latter part of December 2013) pushing into the flood plains. This is the fish breeding season. Feeding is now a second priority. The water is quite murcky with an average temperature of around 27.5 degrees Celcius. Fishing is slow with only tiger fish taking the lures in deeper channels and smaller tigershunting  next to flood plains. 

Water pushing into floodplains.

Be on the lookout ... Hippo's everywhere...!!!

Ester Burger with her tiger fish caught with a small halco lure while trawling

Dawid Burger with a nice size Tiger Fish also caught with a small Halco lure (red & black with white stripes works in the murky water) while trawling in a deeper channel

Another Giant Tiger Fish Released: 17 November 2013

Dawid Burger with his tiger fish of over 5kg

The Okavango river was very low during November 2013. We could only fish from the river bank. The fish was very active in the morning and afternoon, Managed to land several smaller specimens of tiger fish in the clear and shallow water (1-1.5m) behind sand banks. 

Dawid caught and release this giant tiger of over 5 kg with a double bladed copper spoon. The water temperature was 25.5 'C.