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River News and Water Level Updates

 

February 13, 2010February 13, 2010

   

 

A quick update before I head home for my “Summer Leave” :

 

Water Levels

Are rising but I can’t comment too much on the rate it seems to be inching its way up very slowly this year, the main water from up river has not hit us yet, a very late rise indeed! Word from Angola says their rains came about a month late this year so we should not give up hope on having a substantial flood of sorts.

The water is still very dirty!! No clean water to be found anywhere, even our local backwaters look like  mud ponds now.

 

Weather

We have a splendid 2 weeks of fantastic weather, a couple isolated rain storms here and there in the afternoons but in general, it has been hot on average about 30 degrees C everyday and the animals are loving it. The Nguni has spent the last 2 weeks in and around the Chobe River enjoying the mass of ele’s and wild game that has been making the best of a slow rising Chobe river. Bird watching has been Amazing!!

 

Fishing

Not too much to report on the fishing side, the water clarity (or lack of it) of the Zambezi has made fishing in the main channel slow, but we have found the best areas to be around the Chobe rapids (in Front of Mawana lodge) to be most successful. Lots of small tigers in the 1 – 3 pound range have been caught on Bulldogs there and 1 or 2 larger specimens have made an appearance and Getaway. The waters just above where the Kasai and Chobe meet have been the cleanest and some fish have even been caught by trolling large magnum Rapala’s?? Lures in Feb….

Whats next…. Snow?

 

That’s it from the Zambezi and Chobe for a couple days, look out for my next update that should be around the 23rd Feb which should contain some pics from this Driftbaiting season.

 

Tight Lines

 

Capt. Haydn o’ The Nguni     

 

 

 

- January 28, 2010, - January 28, 2010

 

Welcome to a new decade, I hope 2010 is going to be a wonderful year for all of us. The Nguni Voyager is winding down after a hectic and busy 2009 season and will be closing for 2 weeks in the middle of Feb for a well deserved maintenance break. Thank you to all our guests that joined us on board this past year and who made 2009 our busiest year ever. That being said 2010 looks to already knock the 2009 occupancy figures out of the park as we have already got a fully booked boat for our entire flyfishing and lure fishing season starting May ending Middle August, and already people are starting to secure their bookings for 2011, If you have missed out on a spot on the Nguni in 2010, I think you had better start planning for a spot for 2011!

 

Zambezi Water Level

We have had a very wet season here on the Caprivi strip since November last year,  Lots off rain yet not a huge rise in water level yet, don’t get me wrong the water is rising and very dirty from the local rains but its nothing like we have come to expect over the past couple years. the important thing is that it hasn’t in any  way effected our drift fishing season, we have had in fact fantastic results.

 

Drift Fishing since Early December

We have had a number of dedicated fishing trips booked for the Drift bait fishing season that started at the Beginning of December 2009. The drift bait season is definitely proving to be the big fish season, over the past 2 months we have had over 40 double figure fish landed and 5 over 16 pounds weighed, verified and safely released.

 

News from Ministry of Fisheries

I was lucky enough to have a meeting with the Big Boss from the Namibian Ministry of Inland Fisheries about a closed fishing season starting 2010. After the Zambian Government and Fisheries had proclaimed a closed season to all fishing (netting and recreation) I was getting worried that our Namibian Fishing ministry would do the same and we would not be able to operate over the closed months of December, January and February.

I was assured that a closed season was eminent but us Namibian Operators should not be worried as the closed season will apply to netting only and not to us recreationals who practise catch and release. I think this is a huge breakthrough and I applaud the Namibian Ministry of Inland Fisheries for their forward thinking.

As a spin off  we at the Nguni have been given the green light by the ministry to launch an experimental tilapia & bream cage farming project. The basic idea is to put a couple floating or non floating predator proof steel cages in our “shed” backwater whereby we will raise juvenile endemic and non-exotic species of Tilapia to pan size. the juvenile tilapia and bream will be caught in early winter months (May & Jun) and placed in these cages whereby they should grow to eating size by the start of the closed season. The “Farmed” fish can then be sold over the closed season to the community and lodges. This project is to be run in conjunction with local community of net fishermen and give them an alternative source of income over the closed fishing season.

If there is anybody who wants to know more or who is interested in helping getting this project off the ground please contact me at:

info@tigerfishfrenzy.com

 

Regards

 

Haydn

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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