Ultimate African Tiger
Fishing Safaris
1997
Ultimate African Tiger Fishing Safari After 7 days of waking early we all decide to sleep in a bit. Later, on the jetty, yesterday’s pride of lion lazing in the morning sun. Little remained of the baby hippo. All was quiet. The wind was down and the river smooth but the fishing was still a bit off. Normally the months of October and November provide incredible tiger fishing on the lower Zambezi. Troy, our guide, used every trick in the book and some that aren’t but he was unable to catch. Dave still had the luck…or "Mojo" as he called it and hooked into some LARGE fish…we’re talking 14 to 15 pounders but he was unable to keep them on the line. In the end Sukh and Dave each caught a couple fair sized tiger…around 10 pounds each. This evening we ventured out on a game drive with good friend and professional guide Dave Christiansen. Within minutes we found a large male lion and his mate busy under the shade of a Natal Mahogany tree. We sat in silence watching as the mating ritual proceeded. In the distance a warthog family sprinted across a bare patch of earth with their tails high in the air. Minutes later we spot a large group of adolescent kudu males. A bit further on and we find ourselves in the midst of Kinky’s herd (an elephant herd with several young, the same herd which had come through camp the night before, named after the matriarch’s kinked tail). We enjoy the baby elephant’s antics as they mock charged the Land Rover. As the afternoon sun touches the tree tops we sat only meters from a pride of eight lion as they lazed on a stretch of sand (not the pride that had taken the baby hippo). As far as game drives go it was pretty productive. Quite content we headed back to the lodge arriving to find the two old buffalo have returned…and another herd of elephant are busy feeding behind the bar. We all pulled into the bar for a cold drink and then dinner. The evening was typical of Mana Pools…incredible food, good stories, lots of bad jokes, all the while with hippo, elephant, lion, hyena, zebra, and baboons adding their voices (and at some point their presence) to the evening! Absolute magic.
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