The lodge is not a 5 star venue but the rooms are clean and comfortable, the food is tasty and filling and the beer cold. This is a very special private venue that has some of the best tiger fishing on the continent. If you are a group of 3-4 anglers, you will have it all for yourself. The area that surrounds the lodge has a large number of wild life (game) species and one cannot help wondering if this is what Africa would have been like 100 years ago. Often the roar of lions can be heard from the camp fire.
Night game drives add to the excitement of a true African fishing safari. Hippos and crocodiles are the custodians of this great water mass and can be seen whilst fishing or cruising around the many hidden bays and river inlets within the Nhenda concession.
The fishing Caborra Bassa has a wide variety of fish species to target apart from its renowned Tigerfish, such as Vundu, Chessa and a host of different bream species. The Tigers are the main predators and the most sought after and can grow in excess of 25-30lbs in this area. The average large Tiger which visitors to Nhenda release are 10-18lbs.
Tiger fish in this remote area move into the quiet bays and inlets to ambush and hunt smaller fish species and when hooked on fly or light tackle give up a spectacular display of their strength both in and out of the water. Very few moments are as pleasurable as when a large Tiger that has just smashed into the fly and clears the water against a pristine African back- drop.
To get to Nhenda from Johannesburg we fly via Maputo to the town Tete. From Tete we take an interesting 2 hour drive by motor vehicle to the waters edge and then another 2 hour boat trip across Cahorra to Nhenda Camp. No visas are necessary and although it is a malaria area and precautions should be taken, we hardly saw a mosquito. Anglers need only take their clothes and fishing tackle, the rest is all there. Nhenda has 3 boats available for fishing of which two are used for fly fishermen.
