Wild Fishing with Elephants; Okavango River, Namibia

Fishing in the Okavango river in Namibia has many challenges regarding wildlife encounters. Never a dull moment. You are constantly on the lookout for Hippo...what a pleasant surprise if a group of elephant appears on the river bank or cross the river while you are fishing...with a nice size tiger on the other end of your line. Dawid managed to hook into some nice sized tigers on our last outing Saturday the 1st of June 2013 with elephants and hippo's galore...!!!

The video is available at: http://youtu.be/SILJyRyAIFQ

Cold water affecting the bite: Okavango

Bridge over the Okavango river at Bagani in the West Caprivi

Fishing on the Okavango river was not good the previous weekend (25-26 May 2013). Water temps dropped to 65 F. Only got small tigers on the drift (tilapia fillet). The only worthwhile photo was this one of the bridge...!!! 

Crockango Angling Competition: 1-4 May 2013

One of the Tigers caught during this years Crockango angling competition 

Read more about the 2013 Crockango Angling competition at: 
http://aquaculturenamibia.blogspot.com/2013/05/crokango-fishing-competition-final.html
and
http://aquaculturenamibia.blogspot.com/2013/05/crockango-fishing-competition-1-4-may.html

Okavango Tiger Fishing: 27+28 April 2013

Dawid  with one of 15 tiger fish landed over the weekend

My son Dawid and I went again fishing in the lower Okavango (Namibia) this weekend. We had a very nice time with some decent Tigers(15), Nembwe (4) and massive Thin-face tilapia (1). I was skippering the boat. 90% of the fish was caught by Dawid with dropshot (1/4 ounce jigg heads and 7 inch minnows with paddle tails) and double bladed copper spoons.

The flood plains have not yet started emptying back into the river...should happen within the next 2-3 weeks...Fishing will then increase by 100%...can't wait...!!!

Next week the Crockango Fishing comp starts (1-4 May 2013). Will report on it... 

Dawid with a giant Thin-face Tilapia also caught on drop-shot 

Dawid with one of the Nembwe also caught on drop-shot during the weekend

Tigers starting to bite

Dawid Burger wait a small Tiger Fish 

The Tiger Fish started biting in the Okavango as the water recedes from the flood plains. The next month might be good  for tigers and nembwe until the floodplains emptied and the water temps go down to below 18 degrees with the start of the winter.

We went testing a small alu boat on Saturday 20 April 2013. Dawid managed to catch this small tiger  in an eddy behind a sandbank...

Ladies can also do it

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The Past Fishing Season February, March 2013

The past fishing season started of with a bang, especially with the Bronzies... Ray Newing from Isle of Sheppey came over with Malcolm at the end of Jan. Target species were mostly edibles, but we did fish for Bronzies on 3 occasions. A couple of times we hooked Bronzies on light tackle whilst fishing for edibles, which ended in tears. We did catch a couple of nice size cob, but nothing big. Most of the fish around 4 - 7 kg. Among them we also caught a few rays, sandsharks etc., which was later used for Bronzie bait. It was Malcolm s first outing to Namibia and a hefty 20 Namibian dollar bill was the prize for the biggest fish caught... Ray wrote the following after the trip: "Malcolm has face-booked his fish, and has my N$20 pinned on the shop wall. He also is serious about. going again.
Hope everythings o.k with you, we had a great time there. Thanks!!"

Read more at: http://johansafari.blogspot.com/2013/03/past-fishing-season.html

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