How about the Kilombero Valley for Lions !!!!
Thanks for any help.

r.
Seloushunter

Ted Gorsline used to hunt this area. He has recently posted here, you might try to contact him. Also, see the post about the 190lb Tanz ele tusks. I asked him about lion hunting in this are in that thread. He had some good comments. (guess I'm a hijacker...)

Brett

According to Michel Mantheakis the Kilombero lion quota was sold months ago.

VBR,

Ted Gorsline

It depends for what year you are looking for? 2006 must be full but maybe 2007, 08 etc.

Contact Miombo safaris and find out!

Are there any MANED LIONS ?!

r.
Seloushunter

There is one big one with a good mane and maybe two other shootables in the floodplain block which is called Mgeta. The other block at the head of the valley there is called Malimba and it is in Miombo woodland.

Last year I saw two of the three. My tracker Simon Chilimba saw the third and pointed him out to me but he slipped into the grass before I saw him.

And there are about 25 other lions in the same area. I hunted buffalo there last year for five weeks but I have not hunted lion there for three years. Prior to 2001 I myself shot between 21 and 23 male lions there. My other hunters shot more. I forget the exact number but I think it must have been about 30 over ten years.

The big male there now is attached to a pride of 11. According to the game guard Ballenge this pride ambushed, killed and ate 6 fishermen in one attack about four years ago. And as far as I know no one since then.

But there is likely substance to the story because all the fishermen on the Ngasiro river now sleep on islands and sometimes abandon the area completely leaving everything they own which is not normal for poor people. What this means is lions have come around their camp at night, scared the Bejeesus out of them, and they have jumped into their canoes and fled.

There are some places they do not set up camp. The hotspot is a place where the Nausanga River swings to within a few hundred yards of the Fuu River but does not connect with it. That is where the attack took place, That's the place the fishermen won't camp, and that is where Chilimba saw Mr Big last season.



VBR,


Ted Gorsline