At Tourette
Fishing we realize that your guide plays an integral
role in the success of your African fishing Safari.
Tourette Fishing guides are all professional young
men, with a passion for Africa, her fisheries, wild
places, and unique wildlife.
When traveling with Tourette Fishing, you can be
assured that your qualified guide has been chosen
for his experience in the field, passion towards
his career, professional attitude and charisma.
The value that your professional guide adds is not
merely from a fishing perspective, but his rich
knowledge of flora, fauna and culture will greatly
enhance your experience of what Africa’s finest
fisheries have to offer.
Guides Profiles
Keith Clover (BSc Honours, UNP) - Director
and Head Guide
Background:
Keith’s passion for fly fishing and the African
wilderness emerged when growing up on the family
farm Game Pass on the Mooi River. Stalking wild
browns with his Father and Grandfather in the mountain
streams was his introduction to the beautiful pastime
of fly fishing. The second fish he managed to hook
on fly was a trophy brown which was lost due to
massive inexperience. “At the age of 8, the
joy of hooking such a fish, the sadness of subsequently
losing it, and the adrenalin coursing through my
body during the brief tussle, left me in no doubt
that fly fishing was to become a major driving force
in my life from that moment on”.
Subsequent to his schooling and during his tertiary
education at the University of Natal, Keith was
fortunate enough to lead mobile safaris throughout
Southern and East Africa. During these carefree
days he had the opportunity to fish numerous remote
inland and coastal waters between Cape Town and
Kenya. Keith’s passion for fly fishing grew
as did his understanding of Africa’s fauna
and flora. In conjunction with his University studies,
Keith completed his FGASA (Field Guides of Southern
Africa) level three qualifications.
Keith’s keenness for exploring remote African
waterways is tangible. When not busy in the office
or guiding, Keith’s time is spent researching
and scouting venues throughout Southern and East
Africa. Devoting a large segment of time, money,
and effort to exploratory trips, ensures Tourette
Fishing remains at the forefront of the African
sport fishing frontier. It is through such endeavours
that the trophy fish of Duma were discovered in
2008.
Guiding Log:
Keith has guided extensively throughout Southern
and East Africa and the Indian Ocean islands. He
is an accomplished and respected guide in both salt
and freshwater, writing and contributing on a monthly
basis to both local and international fly fishing
publications. Keith is widely regarded as one of
the leading experts in targeting tigerfish on fly
and has developed a number of productive, and area
specific, patterns for targeting these ferocious
predators. Landing the first 20lb plus tiger on
fly was the highlight of his angling career; that
was until he guided the first fly fishing group
to Duma where his guests successfully landed and
released 8 fish over 20 lbs in as many days.
Keith’s attention to detail and thorough
guiding and operations management principles are
appreciated by all who fish and travel with Tourette
Fishing. His relaxed and unassuming nature combined
with his patience and sense of humour make him a
pleasure to be with, both on the water and off.
Rob Scott (BSc Honours, UNP) - Director
and Head Guide
Background:
Rob has two life long passions: fishing and African
wildlife. These two aspects have dominated every
aspect of his 30 years on this planet. Rob's childhood
on the wild coast of South Africa exposed him, from
the earliest age, to every conceivable form of sport
angling, whether it was Rock and Surf, Estuarine,
Light Tackle, and Fly Fishing. The offshore opportunities
along the Wildcoast became a constant fascination,
and the promise of being able to explore and target
a wider - and larger - variety of fish, saw Rob
exploring unknown reefs on fishing kayaks. It was
in these young days that he became a pioneer in
the popular sport of targeting game fish off fishing
kayaks, and this remains close to his heart today.
After completing a BSc Honours at the University
of Natal, Rob spent 2 years guiding photographic
and walking safaris within the Sabi Sands Private
Game Reserve, firstly as a ranger, and then subsequently
as head ranger. Although these were fantastic days,
it was not long before the lack of a nearby ocean,
and good tigerfish waters, forced Rob to leave the
Lowveld bush, and to pursue his first love, fishing.
Guiding Log:
Rob is a Director and full time guide for Tourette
Fishing, and has guided extensively throughout the
Salt waters of South Africa and Mozambique. Although
there is a tremendous amount of salt in his veins,
Rob has successfully made the transition into the
freshwater guiding arena and has since become an
expert on the tiger fishing waterways of Zimbabwe,
Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, and Tanzania. Rob guides
extensively for both small mouth and Natal yellowfish
each year on Sterkfontein and in the KZN Midlands.
Rob’s vast fishing knowledge and contagious
enthusiasm makes him extremely popular among all
the guests that he has guided. Strongly conservation
minded, his philosophy towards the sport and his
guiding career is to instil a love for Africa’s
Fisheries while ensuring their future existence.
Lionel Song – Guide and Botswana
Operation Manager
Background:
Lionel has been working as a safari guide since
1987. He grew up in the old Northern Transvaal along
the Limpopo River where he completed his schooling.
He started his bush career in the Timabavati Reserve,
after which he specialised in big game walking trails
in the Maneyeleti Reserve north of the Sabi Sand
Reserve. Lionel is a true bushman and is totally
at home in nature and its environs. Lionel spent
time managing Lloyd’s Camp in the Savuti area
of the Chobe National Park where he fell in love
with Botswana and its wild open spaces.
Subsequently Lionel started a fly-fishing company
up in the Panhandle of the Okavango Delta, where
he specialises in catching tigerfish and bream
on fly.
Fishing has forever been a passion of Lionel’s.
It was however when he entered the Okavango Delta
for the first time that he was introduced to the
joys of fly-fishing by his best friends father a
local legend from the Cape Streams. Brian gave him
an old beaten up Diawa fly rod that his son Charles
had cut his teeth on, and his lifelong passion for
the beautiful art was born.
Lionel has a strange fascination with water, be
it a pond or the mighty Pacific. He just needs to
know what lies under its glassy surface and whether
its scaly inhabitants can be tempted into the light
of day with a well presented fly. Lionel’s
ingenuity and ability to fish “out the box”
is a precursor for his uncanny ability to put his
guests into lesser known species. Lionel is at his
happiest when his guests have a fish on the end
of their rod and a smile on their faces!
Guiding Log:
After moving down to the Midlands from Botswana
Lionel guided locally, for both trout and KZN yellow
fish before starting his operation in Botswana.
Lionel has spent time guiding and managing fly fishing
camps in Zambia and Botswana. He spent an incredible
month in Gabon in the Petit Loango Reserve building
a fishing camp, where he tested his skill some of
remarkable fish including giant Cubera snapper to
threadfin to name but a few. Lionel’s guiding
and fishing have lead him through all of Southern
Africa and to the North America’s. Lionel
is presently on a mission to the island of St Helena
where he is rehabilitating an historical hotel while
tempting the local fish to take his fly.
People cannot help but be drawn to Lionel’s
infectious personality and his manic zest for life.
The well being of his clients are his top priority.
If its laughter you’re after while you catching
copious amounts of fish then he is your man!
Rayno Egner - Guide and Videographer/Editor
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Background:
Born in Durban, South Africa 2nd November 1979.
Rayno Grew up Hunting, Fishing & Horse riding
in the Midlands of Natal on the Family Ranch's of
"Westlands" & "Kusan". He
attended Merchiston Prep School and Maritzburg College
High School and studied Agricultural Management
at the University of Natal, during this time also
filming numerous Big 5 hunts all over the continent
before obtaining his Professional Hunters &
Dangerous Game licence in 2000. He has hunted and
fished extensively all over Africa including Mozambique,
C.A.R, Zambia, Tanzania, Botswana, Zimbabwe &
Kenya bearing witness to some of the most famous
reserves and hunting concessions in Africa, amongst
them the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, Luangwa South,
The Selous, Bangwelu swamps & National Geographic's
well known Dzanga-Sanga Bai in C.A.R. where Rayno
documented the Western Lowland Gorilla and caught
Goliath Tiger fish. Rayno’s hunting and fishing
travels have also taken him off the continent of
Africa to the USA and remote regions such as Mongolia.
His passion for Fly-fishing emerged on the trout
lakes of East Griqualand where at the young age
of 8 he took his first trophy Rainbow trout. This
led him to take up the art of fly-tying and by the
age of 11 he had a thriving enterprise selling flies
to his fellow students in Boarding school.
Guide Log:
Rayno is an accomplished guide in freshwater and
has guided most freshwater species on the African
continent south of the Sahara. His two passions
are targeting tigerfish and luring the smallmouth
yellowfish of Sterkfontein to a dry fly.
Rayno’s wealth of experience in guiding international
and local clientele combined with his drive, motivation,
patience and extensive knowledge of the waters he
fishes are major contributing factors to his success
in the industry.
Bryce Perrett- Guide
Background:
Having grown up in the Kwa-Zulu Natal midlands,
Bryce’s passion for fly fishing was nurtured
fishing in the stillwaters and rivers of the area
for trout from the age of 7. Bryce’s early
exposure to the joys of fly fishing set alight his
lifelong passion for the sport and the beautiful
surrounds in which it takes place. Through high
school his weekends and holidays were taken up targeting
Scalies (Natal Yellowfish) in the Umngeni and Umkomaas
rivers, Trout in Lesotho, Smallmouth Yellows in
Sterkfontein and various saltwater species in Mozambique
and northern Kwa-Zulu Natal, as well as Tigers and
Bream species in the Okavango delta and the Zambezi.
Since leaving school Bryce has guided in a number
of destinations, including, Kenya for sailfish and
Tanzania for trophy tiger fish. Bryce spent 6 month
working in New Zealand. This time giving him the
opportunity to experiencing first-hand the legendary
trout fishery of the Land of the long white cloud,
as well as learn from some of the worlds finest
guides.
Guiding Log:
Bryce has been privileged to guide in a number of
premier fisheries within Africa, including northern
Kenya, targeting billfish on fly and exploring the
possibility of a bonefish destination on the African
mainland. The highlight of his guiding career so
far has been his involvement in the inaugural season
on the Mnyera and Ruhudji rivers in Tanzania, guiding
clients onto tiger fish in excess of twenty pounds
on fly. Bryce has developed a number of area-specific
flies and streamlined fly fishing tactics for this
exciting new venue. Closer to home, Bryce has guided
extensively on Sterkfontein and in the rivers of
Kwa-Zulu Natal for their resident yellow fish.
Bryce is the consummate professional, and when
guiding, shows maturity and skill levels beyond
his years. He has an the ability to consistently
put guests into fishable waters that match their
skill level, and that most importantly, produce
good fish. He is a pleasure to be around, both on
the water and off.
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