in and around Kariba, treat wounded or snared animals, and
working with National Parks carry out regular anti-poaching
patrols, among other initiatives.
For any donations, help offers, or more information, or to report
injured animals please contact [email protected].
Other Contact Details:
Cavan Warran
0772 690 915 - KARIBA
Nick Grant
0772 607 214 - HARARE
Debbie Ottman
Land Home 061 2342, Work 2764,
Cell 0773 996 487- KARIBA
Sonya Mc Master Land Home 061 2488,
Cell 0772 874 352 - KARIBA
Or visit their Facebook www.facebook.com/KaribaANimalWelfareFundTrustKariba
But it was a pleasant surprise for all, especially for Zayan, as
this was his first chessa and now the second most favourite
fish, after barbel.
On another note the cook at our lodge did an excellent job
on the bucket of crayfish we had caught - grilled with a garlic,
lemon and butter sauce! Usually not my favourite, but I think
freshly caught and prepared made a big difference.
I have attached a couple of pictures from our trip and one
with Zayan with his chessa (his younger brother, Imran also
posing with him).
Many Thanks & Best Regards
Zayd Hoosein, Harare.
Chessa and Biltong
We have just come back from another special trip to Kariba and
must say we are all still wishing we were still there.
We were at Wild Heritage for four nights and enjoyed some
good fishing at both Gache Gache and Antelope. (my fuel bill
kept me in the Antelope island area). But we did manage to
catch some “Mozies” and three-spot bream at Gache, but the
Kariba weed did put an end to a very productive spot we had
there.
We were fishing for some bream for the pan at Antelope
and the crayfish were having a field day with our bait when my
son, Zayan aged eight years, decided to have a go for barbel
in the deep.
He decided that the crayfish would clean his hook before
the barbel had a chance to find his earth worms, so decided on
baiting his hook with Biltong! About 30 mins later we heard
his reel screaming. Thinking he was either stuck or best case
had hooked into a barbel, we paid little attention to his fight.
But as the fight dragged on for a bit we started to pay more
attention. There were lots of comments on it being either a
barbel or vundu, much to my son’s delight. We were shocked
to see the silver shine of a chessa break the surface. This put
more excitement into the fight, and on landing and weighing
the chessa, discovered that Zayan had caught a 3.08kg chessa...
on biltong!
I did not think that chessa would take a slice of biltong?!
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