How to Catch Tigerfish in Africa (Tackle and Tequniques, everything you need to know)

In this episode of This is Africa Outdoors we talk tigerfishing, I try to give as much information on the topic as I can in a 30 minute episode! Big thanks to Scott Wenham for filming.

[@wendybalcomb4732]

Now this must be your BEST VIDEO. Excellent information, well presented, lovely background sights and sounds. Well done Josh. I’m sure this will encourage an enthusiastic following.

[@ThisisAfricaOutdoors]

Thanks gogo

[@keithkostek5606]

GReat vid guys. Heading back to Okavango to fish for Tiger after 20 years and forgot all my tricks! Great informative and straight forward video and also gets the juices flowing for September!

[@pro_guide4504]

Very helpful and informative.. enjoying listening to the Trumpeter Hornbills.

[@gerhardlessing471]

Gr8 work, must be your best video ever, looking forward to the next tutorial.

[@ThisisAfricaOutdoors]

Thanks glad you liked it!

[@gordonmillsjr.1957]

Thanks for all your great vids. I’d love to see you guys have a go at fly fishing for tiger fish! 💪

[@ThisisAfricaOutdoors]

Thanks glad you enjoyed the video, there should be a video about flying fishing for tiger coming out soon on the channel

[@garethgeach9954]

Well done, very informative and great to learn some new ideas and reinforce the old one's we saw our Dad's, Uncle's and Grandfather's fish when we were younger Fisherman. I remember my Uncle from Tengwe using a float! It worked very well on the river in the dirty clean waters.

[@henniestapelberg448]

Great video once again.! Thanks for all the jam packed info 👍🏼👍🏼

[@ThisisAfricaOutdoors]

thanks!

[@OverlandingwithBruce]

Thanks for this. I’m going to the lower Zambezi in 3 weeks and hopefully this advice will help. Thanks for sharing I have subscribed. Going to go and buy some Afri jig s and one of those bags tomorrow. 👍👍

[@suhailbham3825]

A great insightful video, well presented and all encompassing. Tight lines!

[@ThisisAfricaOutdoors]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks very much.

[@gustavgroenewald7682]

Great video sharing key points of the Tigerfishing, well put together. We will be on Jozini(SA) in 2 weeks. Will give some insight on our trip from learnings shared. Keep it up.👍

[@xtherealest]

The nature in africa is stunning but I think it's way too dangerous to go there. I've never been there but aligators and hippos along with deadly diseases seem like a big no. What is the fishing there like? Is there a lot of tigerfish and if yeah did you catch a big one already. I hope a hippo didn't capsize your boat 😂

[@rynhardduplessis6535]

Amazing video and tips👏👏👏 Awaiting your livebait video👍🏻

[@eddiesmith9407]

Thank you, great video.

[@svenwelzig1720]

Great video👍🏻, very helpful and excellent editing!!

[@ThisisAfricaOutdoors]

Thank you! 👍

[@jeremyshutter8638]

Really great video, i hope to fish lower Zambezi in February

[@ianferguson4728]

At my age I'm sorted. Drifting from Chirundu to Mana is the place. Any rod will do. Barbel fillet drift bait. The trick to success is the company. So my mates from Ellis Robins from the day are good. Cooler box must be full. That's non negotiable. Mozi lager, ouzo and cream soda depending on the position of the sun. If the bait come off, it's not a train smash. The best part is just being there. Nice video. Hoping to be there in November. I'll try and take it seriously. 😂

[@ThisisAfricaOutdoors]

I 100% agree! The company you take with you and the sights and the sounds are what its really about.

[@chipdog3878]

awesome video mate!!

[@ThisisAfricaOutdoors]

Thanks!

[@antonhuman8446]

Good presentation young man!

[@ThisisAfricaOutdoors]

thanks!

[@deonlubbe6127]

Great job young man, thank you

[@murraywenham7378]

Epic Joshua

[@deonbolleurs996]

Good informative video, well prevented. Thanks keep them coming

[@ThisisAfricaOutdoors]

Thanks!

[@naasbotes505]

Thanks, it helps a lot..

[@ThisisAfricaOutdoors]

Glad it helped

[@munenekermer9665]

Great video Josh!

[@ThisisAfricaOutdoors]

Thanks Munene!

[@teambfishing8616]

Top video bud really informative 👍.... on my way to jozini tomorrow....I fish for tigers almost exactly as you have explained so rewarding catching them on artificials....however I get hit most on whopper plopper.... but hook up ratios are really terrible need to look into this coz they absolutely will not leave it alone ... once again good vid keep them coming dude!!!

[@rynhardduplessis6535]

Told you he says Afri Jigs, now who loves them😂

[@ThisisAfricaOutdoors]

Thanks glad you enjoyed.

[@andrewspha]

When are you doing to jozini dam that's my local dam but I haven't found good spots to fish on so I settle for pongola river after the wall

[@xtherealest]

Wow getting a hit on a whopper plopper from a tigerfish seems like a dream. Over here where I live I can't even catch a pike 😂

[@chriscoston9380]

good video. thanks

[@user-vi5el4kk2p]

Nice vid, as a kid who’s gone on many pre tiger tournament trips I can agree with everything he’s saying, you should also take a look at a bait runner for your live baits and I wonder if you’d get a better hook up ratio with a circle hook on an Afrijg, I’ll have to try and see if I can make one or try to something

[@greenie4686]

Dankie bra

[@arnehefer5749]

i just started watching and this is amazing, i recently caught some nice tigerfish in the okavango delta. Later this year in june i will also be traveling to north-eastern zambia for an outreach and i hope to catch some more there.

[@ThisisAfricaOutdoors]

thanks glad you enjoyed!

[@RKFISHING]

Epic video!!!

[@user-by6yc8yl7v]

Throwing beefed up heavy wire buzzbaits for these would be insane. Also plop baits like the Joe Bucher top raider, I can only imagine

[@charlietv9381]

Nice bro

[@ThisisAfricaOutdoors]

Thanks

[@WantzChas]

I’ve found the Tempest Tiger Elite a bit too stiff. For slight more, the Assassin Infinity MH does great. Paired with a 4000 Stradic with 30lbs braid works well. With trolling heavier line is always better. Not so nice loosing an expensive Rapala Magnum that gets stuck on a rock or net.

[@graemestone9561]

What do you find is the best technique with the Afri Jig?

[@ThisisAfricaOutdoors]

Retrieve with twitches, but really depends on how the fish are feeding on that particular day.

[@zimadventurers9268]

This video is really mull josh ❤

[@shameermia2315]

Hi nice video how does tiger fish taste, do you normally throw back or take some home. Curious to know if the taste is similar to Bass fish.

[@ThisisAfricaOutdoors]

No they are very bony fish, we normally release them

[@cameronvanrooyen4027]

Nice 👍🏼where you filming and fishing from?

[@ThisisAfricaOutdoors]

Malilangwe dam south east zimbabwe

[@zimadventurers9268]

I’m calling out copyright from my videos 😂😂

[@enimei2856]

great Video. Maybe I missed the Info, but need the fillet a movement or slow sinking to work, or take the Tigers the motionless fillets from the bottom too? (I'm from Europe, never fished for Tigers, so really no Idea;) )

[@ThisisAfricaOutdoors]

Thanks! Yes pretty much everything will work they will take fillets off the bottom too.

[@user-by6yc8yl7v]

What are their spawning temperaments like compared to Goliath snakehead guarding their fry? Do they stay with their fry ?

[@user-vi5el4kk2p]

Could you try do the same video for different species maybe bream and vundu

[@ingoodmusic]

Shimano Calqutta 201dc+st croix lec 76 - is it a good combo for Tiger?

[@ThisisAfricaOutdoors]

It should work.

[@user-by6yc8yl7v]

A 200 would handle these fish for sure?

[@user-by6yc8yl7v]

7'2" - 7'9" Shimano/g.loomis swim jig rod with a Shimano curado 150,200 &. Shimano Scorpion

[@karlvf8117]

Hey there...which knot do you use to tie piano wire to swivel and to clip.

[@ThisisAfricaOutdoors]

It’s called a haywire twist

[@ahmedabdelbasset1365]

❤❤❤❤

[@Wild_Reeve]

The upper Zambezi if fire I court a 17lb tiger

[@ThisisAfricaOutdoors]

Awsome!

[@rekopathuso1506]

Silver, our gold spoons that’s all you need bro,😂. if you cannot afford check mama’s kitchen put one hook in it, ready to go

[@suhailpador650]

18:40, where's that promise? I see nothing in the description 😢

[@southernafricanboy4148]

Does anyone know if the Manyame/Hunyani River have tiger fish How about Lake Chivero, Darwendale, Bori or Mazvikadei dams? Thanks

[@ethannolan-evans5490]

I don't think any of them have tigers in them but they do have some good bass

[@ethannolan-evans5490]

There aren't many tiger spots close to Harare you'd have to get north or into the lowveld

[@GrumpyTinashe]

@@ethannolan-evans5490 Thanks sir. Where is your favourite fishing around Harare?

[@GrumpyTinashe]

@@ethannolan-evans5490 noted. Is that the same with trout that's Nyanga is the only place

[@ethannolan-evans5490]

@@GrumpyTinashe I think that the best and possibly cheapest places would be anywhere along the Zambezi and in kariba because the places in the lowveld are generally exclusive and expensive so hard to get a chance to fish and also kariba and the zambezi generally have larger fish anyway