Hi, "Swimbait"!

In South Africa, Florida strain Largemouths are mainly found in the KwaZulu/Natal and Mpumalanga provinces. The current SA record is just over 13lbs, but just north of South Africa in Zimbabwe (which stocked Floridas about 10 years prior to South Africa) Bass of up to 18lbs have been caught on the usual run of the mill bass lures. Reports are that the recent floods in Zimbabwe and Mozambique washed Florida Bass from farm dams into Lake Kariba, one of the largest freshwater bodies of water in Southern Africa. Kariba also has a healthy population of bream and kapenta (a type of freshwater sardine), not to mention tigerfish. Once the Bass get a foothold in Kariba, they should grow really big. Florida Bass have also recently been stocked in cetrtain dams in Namibia.