Every month, the International Game Fish Association announces recently caught pending world fishing records and slams. Here are their Hot Catches for February 2012. –Brian McClintock Check out last month's Hot Catches.
Tag Archives | Tanzania
Fly Fishing for African Tigerfish
Ryan Schoeman posted this video, what he calls a "Flying/Fishing adventure of a lifetime" on Vimeo this week. For those of us that can't make it to Africa, we'll have to take his word for it. – Rick Bach A little bit closer to home: huge redfish from Florida.
Film Clip from Africa: Touching Gold
Safari and Film Africa is a company that probes the dark continent in search of adventure, with a video camera in hand. Touching Gold is one of their most recent productions, and it caught our eye. If fly fishing in Africa wasn't on your bucket list, it might be after watching this clip. Enjoy. – [...]
Are Corrupt Officials Supporting Dynamite Fishing in Tanzania?
Dynamite fishing is exactly what it sounds like, heaving a stick of dynamite into a body of water and collecting the aftermath. It's an increasingly popular practice in Tanzania, where the fish are sold on the commercial market. The most troubling thing about the practice however, is how it's regarded by at least some of [...]
Spectacular Atlantic Salmon Footage from Russia’s Umba River
This video from Danish photographer Columbus Leth was good enough for us to put Russia's Umba River on our bucket list. The first couple minutes should convince you it's one of the truly beautiful places on earth, and the last couple are some of the most spectacular footage of Atlantic salmon acrobatics we've seen. Enjoy.-Rick [...]
Catching Africa’s Most Dangerous Fish on the Fly
If you put a piranha's teeth and viciousness on a tarpon's body, and you get the African tigerfish. These scary creatures have been a hit on River Monsters, and these fool actually went fly fishing for them.See these anglers jump in the water to release the fish (which do attack humans), fly fish among the hippos, [...]
