Fishing bums don’t often get to fish in Africa. There are few bargains and good luck winging it like you can on other continents. Try to wing it there and you might get eaten by a crocodile or a lion. But Jeff and his wife Granny pulled it off. They travelled nearly three months and hitchhiked from Namibia to Malawi in 2005 just to catch tigerfish. They started on in the Okavango Delta then followed the Zambezi River to the border of Mozambique.
Jeff has since made it back to Africa twelve times making films and fishing for TV’s Reel Outdoors as well as hosting trips. He’s fished in Botswana, Cameroon, Egypt, Gabon, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Absuridian (Raiamas nigeriensus)
African Pike
Barb,
- Dash-tail barb (Brycinus nurse)
- Giant African Large Scale Tetra (Brycinus macrolepidotus)
- Redfin Robber (Brycinus affinus)
Bream,
- Nembwe
- Thinface Largemouth
Cichlid,
- Pale Usisya aulonocara
- And an unidentified
Catfish,
- African Blunt-tooth
- Sharptooth
Nile Perch
Puffer, Freshwater, Lake Nasser
Rhino Fish
Silverside (Alestes baremoze)
Sunfish,
- Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides)
- Smallmouth Bass (Micropterus dolimieu)
- Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus)
Tilapia,
- Banded (Tilapia sparrmanii)
- Nile
Tigerfish,
- (Hydrocynus brevis)
- (Hydrocynus forskahlii)
- Tanzania (Hydrocynus tanzaniae)
- Zambezi (Hydrocynus vittatus)
Trout,
- Brown (Salmo trutta)
- Rainbow (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
Yellowfish,
- Black Velvet
- Largescale (Labeobarbus marequenis)
- Niger Barb (Labeobarbus bynni)
- Smallmouth (Labeobarbus aenesus)
- Smallscale ( Labeobarbus polylepis)