Goliath Tiger Fish Pics Photos

Goliath Tiger Fish – Goliath Tiger Fish is one of the most fearsome predators freshwater has ever known. Goliath Tiger Fish can weigh over 100 pounds and its jaws are armed with 32 razor-sharp teeth that can shear through the strongest steel

leaders and even straighten hooks.Goliath Tiger Fish of the river Congo hunts in large packs just like the piranha. Goliath Tiger Fish only attacks you if you’re

wet, they have razor sharp knife-like teeth, and extremely strong jaw muscles, they are among the few fish that can turn the tables on prey the same size or larger than themselves. Goliath Tiger Fish’s body is usually a silver-white-grey, however there is usually a metallic orange or yellow sheen.This has got to be the most exciting opportunity to go for a seriously toothy creature, the Goliath Tiger fish, awesome fighters, with incredible surges and jumps, for a big fish they are extremely acrobatic, generally taken trolling or dead/live bait fishing, no one has seriously gone after them with a fly rod and the world record is waiting for an adventurer to take. [1]
The legendary Goliath Tigerfish is ranked by ‘In Fisherman’ magazine as one of the top 10 hardest-fighting freshwater fish on the planet. [2]
When your name is Goliath, you’d better be one humongous, ferocious creature, and the Goliath tigerfish (Hydrocynus goliath) definitely lives up to its moniker. [3]
Tigerfish is the common name for a variety of species from several different families of fish, usually on account of their colouration or otherwise fearsome appearance. [4]
The Congo river and her tributaries including the Sangha where we base this new safari are a maze of sand banks and recently discovered deep water trenches which snakes its way between great rain forest trees that scream with the sounds of Cicadas and a myriad of birds, away from the edge the forest is impenetrable yet home to many thousands of mammals including the only rarely studied Forrest Elephant and the simply wonderful western Lowland Gorilla. [5]

And it outclasses other African game fish in speed and power. [3]

Tigerfish can be considered Africa.s equivalent of the South American piranha, though they belong to a completely different family. [6]
Tigerfish Camp is situated on the Congo River, about 25 miles upsteam from Brazzaville. [2]
A native of he Congo River basin, the Lualaba River, Lake Upemba and Lake Tanganyika in Africa, it’s the largest member of the tigerfish clan, a genus of fierce predators with protruding, daggerlike teeth. [3]
A school of juveniles can tackle animal of almost any size, including any land animals that stray too close to the water edge. [6]
Spotlighting around the camp and from the boat to find some of the more unusual nocturnal species like Galago, Potto, Gennet, Civit, Golden Cat, Hammer-Bat and a number of owls. [5]
The two most common species and probably most recognisable in Southern Africa are the Goliath Tiger (Hydrocynus goliath) which is found in the Congo River system being the largest of the family.