April is high water season on the Chobe and Zambezi rivers.
Both rivers are usually flooding from headwaters located upstream
in Angola.
Despite rivers being in flood, water clarity and fishing can
still be quite good at this time of the year. Fishing for
tiger fish on the Upper Zambezi is at its very best during
Africa's dry winter months of July, August and September.
The tiger fish is abundant and readily caught throughout most
of the Zambezi River drainage system in southern Africa. And while
any tiger is fun to catch, especially on a fly rod, double-digit
fish up to 20 pounds are not that uncommon while record-book
tigers exceed 30 pounds.
Another species of tigerfish that inhabits the deep waters of
the neighbouring Congo River basin, the Goliath tigerfish, is
known to grow in excess of 100 pounds. The formidable teeth on
this predator are enough to give anyone reason to consider the
wisdom of wade fishing.
