‘Look after my Dad — he's no fisherman,’ Liam said to Keys Syanziba, the Sekoma Island Lodge fishing guide, as I waved my rod at the Zambezi River. My son was spot on. I'm a photo grapher and the impossibly beautiful light on the wide and magical river made it difficult to focus on my lure.
But I had promised 30 minutes of camera-downproper-fishing — and so it was, just a few casts later, that a massive fish took my lure. The giant red and black striped fish fought ferociously to free itself.
‘Sheez, it's a big one,’ I thought.
Keep the rod down, the line taught. The refrain kept playing over in my mind — the first rule of my “beginner's guide to tiger fishing”. Gratefully and carefully, I played the sharp-toothed, spectacularly striped fish into the net.
‘You've been fishing for five minutes and you have caught a bigger tiger than most fishers catch in their lives,’ said Liam.
Liam was virtually born with a love for fish and while he was quietly pleased his had bragging rights over a 6kg tiger, there was more than a little fomo (fear of missing out) in
