Goliath Tiger Fish:This has got to be the most exciting opportunity to go for a seriously toothy creature, the Goliath Tiger fish, awesome fighters, with incredible surges and jumps, for a big fish they are extremely acrobatic, generally taken trolling or dead/live bait fishing, no one has seriously gone after them with a fly rod and the world record is waiting for an adventurer to take. The legendary Goliath Tiger fish is ranked by ‘In Fisherman’ magazine as one of the top 10 hardest-fighting freshwater fish on the planet.
When your name is Goliath, you’d better be one humongous, ferocious creature, and the Goliath (Hydrocynus goliath) definitely lives up to its moniker.
Tiger fish is the common name for a variety of species from several different families of fish, usually on account of their colouration or otherwise fearsome appearance.
The Congo river and her tributaries including the Sangha where we base this new safari are a maze of sand banks and recently discovered deep water trenches which snakes its way between great rain forest trees that scream with the sounds of Cicadas and a myriad of birds, away from the edge the forest is impenetrable yet home to many thousands of mammals including the only rarely studied Forrest Elephant and the simply wonderful western Lowland Gorilla.
And it outclasses other African game fish in speed and power.
Tiger fish can be considered Africa.s equivalent of the South American piranha, though they belong to a completely different family.
Tiger fish Camp is situated on the Congo River, about 25 miles upsteam from Brazzaville.
A native of the Congo River basin, the Lualaba River, Lake Upemba and Lake Tanganyika in Africa, it’s the largest member of the tiger fish clan, a genus of fierce predators with protruding, daggerlike teeth.
A school of juveniles can tackle animal of almost any size, including any land animals that stray too close to the water edge.
Spotlighting around the camp and from the boat to find some of the more unusual nocturnal species like Galago, Potto, Gennet, Civit, Golden Cat, Hammer-Bat and a number of owls.
The two most common species and probably most recognisable in Southern Africa are the Goliath Tiger (Hydrocynus goliath) which is found in the Congo River system being the largest of the family.
No wonder one fishing safari promoter requires clients read a cautionary treatise on the Goliath before agreeing to a fishing trip. [...] Ergo, every one you release helps ensure that the monsters remain in adequate numbers to keep the ecosystem in stasis.
The few anglers that have battled these monsters are awestruck by the fish’s ferocious strikes, long runs and spectacular jumps.
