This is somewhat typical of exotic fishing travel. Rutundu Lake was also enthusiastically recommended. It's an alpine lake northeast of the main peaks of Mt. Kenya that boasts large rainbow trout. This is across a plateau from Aberdare National Park, and we could have done a day trip by plane to Rutundu, but the added expense was out of our budget. Mentioned as an afterthought was that fishing the Aberdares requires the angler to watch his back.
Lions are par for the course.
I had to go. We arrived in Nairobi on the second of April, and after a night's rest, were shuttled three hours north to the Aberdares Country Club, a lodge that has a trout stream close at hand. Kenyans are understandably proud of suffering dilapidated roads, one of which led right up to a well-manicured golf course, the greens strewn with preening baboons and grazing wart hogs. At a log clubhouse festooned with flowering shrubs and attended by uniformed staff, we debarked and met our Sangare guide Paul Kabochi, a sinewy fellow with a twinkle in his eye that betrayed considerable experience in the bush. During our treks with him, this inkling proved correct time and again by his uncanny game-spotting prowess, as well as from his anecdotal resume assisting wildlife filmmakers.