Not WA fishing but thought I would share a recent fishing adventure I had in Botswana catching Tiger fish. As you will see from the photos these are powerful fish with a serious set of teeth!

 As soon as we got to our hotel on the Chobe river in Botswana I sussed out the deal with fishing as I was itching to catch Africa's iconic fresh water sport fish - the Tiger fish. For about $100 for half a day we got a small boat with guide and all the gear, which was cheap shimano 4000 size reels on even cheaper looking rods... We put the lures out the back and started trolling through some likely looking water near some small rapids. It took a while for the first strike, as the water was a bit cool, but soon enough I was onto a decent fish of around 1.5 - 2kg. The thing was going nuts, with plenty of aerial activity before I managed to get him to the boat and into the net. I managed to get a few more small fish, while the missus seemed to have the lure of choice as she was getting onto plenty of good fish that were way too big as they either were either unstoppables that headed for the nearest snag or went for a jump and spat the lure.

After getting a good fish i was keen as to go again the next day with my mate Dave who we were travelling with. We caught and released several small fish before Dave finally got on to a better one. After a bit of complaining and a pretty decent fight he had the fish on board, again probably around the 2kg mark. All in all we all had a great time catching Tiger's which had soooo much go and made Barra look pretty tame. After talking to a few people at the hotel one guy said he had caught them to 8kg, can only imagine the fight they would give!!!

Cheers,

Tim.

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