David Graham

The fish that has been referred to as “The Everest of Freshwater Fishing”. Among the world’s gnarliest fish, The Goliath tigerfish stands apart. Levels above anything I’ve ever chased, I see now why so few have even tried to go catch one and even fewer have been successful. Honored and humbled to be part of a very small club. I led a small crew of very different but equally passionate anglers into the Congo where we found a ton of misconceptions of the country exist but the fishing is as challenging as advertised. It’s unavoidably long hours, and days passing by with absolutely zero action lulling you into a peaceful numbness only to be occasionally disrupted by instantaneous carnage and chaos. The intensity with which they hammer a bait (or lure as I found out) is shocking. We fished the second largest river on earth by sheer water volume (second only to the Amazon). It is THE deepest… and the only river to cross the equator TWICE. You must understand as an angler you’re a mere drop in the ocean here. Fishing the tiniest fraction of the water - for the tiniest fraction of fish - with the tiniest fraction of hook up to landing. To successfully encounter a proper Goliath tigerfish is a real treat.

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