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Originally Posted by RoyalWulff
Sounds like you flyfish also, there petermo. Not many recogonize that my nick is a fly for flyfishing.
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Unfortunately not as often as I'd like! Most of my fishing has been for trout, mainly rainbow in high altitude dams. Since all fish are stocked, either from hatcheries as fingerlings or from larger ponds, very few develop the wiles of wild trout and I've become a bit bored with catching and releasing 1 pounders. Even though quite a large area of SA is over 4000 ft above sea level it is a very dry country with very few fast flowing, clean, perennial rivers or streams that have dependable water. There are a few wild trout streams but they're more than 400 miles away from where I live and one needs to be an enthusiast to get out there for trout.
I've done a bit of salt water flyfishing and we have good variety but again the closest sea is 500 miles away. There's great fishing in Mozambique and I hope to go there with a few friends later this year.
My son and I spent a week in Botswana fishing for Tigerfish on fly which is a mind blowing and heart stopping experience. We used 8 wt kit and clouser minnows and had a ball at Kasane which is on the Chobe river.
This link is interesting and should whet your appetite although I realise that maybe dryfly is what turns you on!
TigerFishFrenzy.com - Learn all about tigerfishing on the Zambezi River's Caprivi strip