Mark Murray from Tourette Fishing has an amazing ability to make me jealous as hell. Yesterday he dropped us mail with a few photos from their annual pre-season guides in Lesotho. Despite extremely low water conditions, the yellows were around… From Mark:
After a busy tigerfishing season, the annual Tourette Fishing Pre-season guides week at the Makhangoa Community Camp is welcomed time for the guides to catch up and relax. It’s certainly one of highlights of the year.
Lesotho is in the grips of a very severe drought. Thus the skinny water made the fishing very technical, but with the right patience and skill, a good number of yellows and trout came to the net…
All photos credit to Mark Murray




















Really enjoyed hunting this fish on dry. She was very sly and for a while I didn’t think it would be possible to get her to not spook, never mind eat. But after a while she showed herself again, and somehow I managed to present the fly in the skinniest of water without spooking her. She came right up to the fly, looked at it, then ate it like there was no tomorrow.. Bliss


(from left to right) Brian Gees, Stuart Harley, Keith Clover, Lionel Song, Rob Scott, Johann du Preez, Jeff & Grannie Currier



6 Responses
Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
Great fish, great photographs! Thanks for sharing.
BTW, Lesotho is not the highest country in the world, that honour goes to Tajikistan at an average elevation of 3186m. Kyrgyzstan (2988), Bhutan (2220) and even the continent of Antarctica (2300) beat Lesotho’s 2161m. Lesotho can boast with the highest low point though.
Thanks for the correction Sam 🙂
Sam, checked this fact before I posted and figured that because Lesotho has the highest low point in world, technically that makes it the highest country in world… 😀 But it’s really a minor fact when you’re up there catching Yellows in waters like that. (MM, got your back! haha)
Magnificent essay and photos, Mark.
What is the fishing like at the moment ? I suppose the drought has taken it’s toll ?