Detiots kloof

If it's the trout in the ponds at the hotel in Du Toits Kloof that you are refering to, then I would suggest something along the lines of a size 12 black wooly bugger, Walkers Killer/Mrs Simpson and maybe an egg fly or two.

For the stream, I would suggest size 14 to 18 black gnats, klinkhammers, parachute duns/mayfly, Adams for surface action, and similar size PTN, GRHE, Zakk nymphs for subsurface/dropper fishing.

This selection will definitely get you into a few fish if you get the presentation right, i.e. drag free drifts and minimal false-casting.
 
oh yes....and then there's my personal all time favorite dry fly, the Royal Wulff. Large and bushy 10s and 12s for early season, going down to 18s as the season progresses and water levels drop.

A very good multipurpose surface/subsurface fly to try is the RAB. Once again large poodle-RAB for early season, and scaling down as the season progresses.

Good luck!
 

alwyn

Senior Member
Chris Shelton wrote:
If it's the trout in the ponds at the hotel in Du Toits Kloof that you are refering to, then I would suggest something along the lines of a size 12 black wooly bugger, Walkers Killer/Mrs Simpson and maybe an egg fly or two.

For the stream, I would suggest size 14 to 18 black gnats, klinkhammers, parachute duns/mayfly, Adams for surface action, and similar size PTN, GRHE, Zakk nymphs for subsurface/dropper fishing.

This selection will definitely get you into a few fish if you get the presentation right, i.e. drag free drifts and minimal false-casting.
Hey Chris when was the last time you drifted a fly? seem you have salt in your veins these days.:::S
 
Goodness me Alwyn, moenie vra nie! A good year ago....almost to the weekend in fact. The photo in my previous avatar was taken over that weekend...on the Gouritz River. We arrived in the pouring rain, and the river was in spate, so ja...had to contend with muddy water the whole weekend, which is not really my thing. I never enjoy fishing for the sake of fishing, especially not fly fishing. I've always been a clear water sight fisherman, and my preference is always for the dry fly, so the fishing was a bit of a non-event for me, but it was a lekker chill weekend out and about in the outdoors nevertheless
 

alwyn

Senior Member
alwyn wrote:
Chris Shelton wrote:
If it's the trout in the ponds at the hotel in Du Toits Kloof that you are refering to, then I would suggest something along the lines of a size 12 black wooly bugger, Walkers Killer/Mrs Simpson and maybe an egg fly or two.

For the stream, I would suggest size 14 to 18 black gnats, klinkhammers, parachute duns/mayfly, Adams for surface action, and similar size PTN, GRHE, Zakk nymphs for subsurface/dropper fishing.

This selection will definitely get you into a few fish if you get the presentation right, i.e. drag free drifts and minimal false-casting.
Hey Chris when was the last time you drifted a fly? seem you have salt in your veins these days.:::S
Oh and another thing mr. Lubbe, Chris is the right person to ask when talking flyfishing, i know ,i had to listen to him in the 70s english oral class. That was all he could talk about back then, so you cant go wrong there, and he had a good mentor in his father. now we just cannot get him to stop his rambling about Henties,lol, but hopefully i can join him on next years trip.::teas:: then i can also see what its all about.
 

bastion

Senior Member
Chris Shelton wrote:
If it's the trout in the ponds at the hotel in Du Toits Kloof that you are refering to, then I would suggest something along the lines of a size 12 black wooly bugger, Walkers Killer/Mrs Simpson and maybe an egg fly or two.

For the stream, I would suggest size 14 to 18 black gnats, klinkhammers, parachute duns/mayfly, Adams for surface action, and similar size PTN, GRHE, Zakk nymphs for subsurface/dropper fishing.

This selection will definitely get you into a few fish if you get the presentation right, i.e. drag free drifts and minimal false-casting.
Chris you have been away from Fly Fishing way too long!

I have never heard you recommend someone uses a n:censph on a stream!!

;)
 

gallieman

Senior Member
heres a 24 inch rainbow that I caught 2 weeks ago on the smalblaar beat 3 on a #22 elk wing caddis!
 

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Tjoeffie

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Ths is one we caught at Highmoor Dam in the Drakensburg.

We caught it on a size 12 Black Wolly Bugger... It was a 4,8 Lb Rainbow hen measured 48 cm. Very slow retrieval... Almost standing still.

The One 5 Lb fish was actually caught waiting for the floating line to sink... 

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bastion

Senior Member
Heya Gallieman,

That is a beautiful fish man. Really nice and must have given you carrots.

How did you measure it to be 24 inches? This is a 24 inch Steelhead:
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Either way - that is a beautiful fish man! Well done!
 

gallieman

Senior Member
well I fish with an 8 foot 4 piece rod so each section is 2 foot in other words 24 inches, now have a look closely at the rod in the folowing pic and you'll see the the first ferrule from the butt .  This fish was also slightly on the thin side seeing that the water was so warm for the months before , I'm sure if it was as plump and muscular as your steel it would do justice to the length measurement. still 24 inches in my book
and an awesome fish on a 2 weight. Nice metalhead by the way where did you catch that, and are you sure thats 24 inches ,looks more like 26 or 27?
 

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bastion

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Well it's an awesome fish bru! Nice one!

I was lucky enough to find myself in Milwaukee last year at the same time as the start of the spring steelhead run and got a guide to take me out.

I got 5 in total from 21 inches up, two of which were 29 and 30 inches respectively in the pics below:
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I have never experienced a salmonid that faught as hard, fast and dirty as the one in the last pick.

They were caught in the Pigeon river which runs through a park in the town of Sheboygan. Wish our park rivers had fish like that in them! Imagine we could just head down to Liesbeek parkway and.. erm.. well there's no point in dreaming is there...^^..
 

gallieman

Senior Member
well not so long ago the eerste river in stellenbosch, the lourens in somerset west used to both have a good steellhead population . I grew up in stellenbosch and 18 years ago when I started trout fishing there were still a few steelhead that would make there way up the eerste. thanks to polution and low water levels thanks to farming operations the eerste river estuary no longer really exists and thus the metalheads population of the eerste disappeared in the 90's. On alighter note me and a friend  spotted a huge fish on the lourens river near radloff park in somerset ,this fish would not look at any of our usual flies until  I stripped a streamer past it at speed and the fight was on ! that fish measured close on 70 cm , and just had steelhead written all over it!that was in 1997.
more interesting my bud mike from stellenbosch fished in false bay regularly from his boat and one day caught a 7 lb rainbow in false bay close to the shore.
 

Nepptune

Sealiner
Superb fish guys... that 'Bow from the Smallblaar is a beast Gallieman, for our streams and epic fish!!! Well done!

Grant - Nice Steelies boet, that dark bugger is amazing.... 5 Steeleies is damn good going in anyones books man...

Here is my first fish on my first day back on the streams in a year, almost exactly to the day....
At a size 20 RAB I think..... Was pretty damn chuffed with him, and according to Steve who took the pic, the pic does ZERO justice to this fish, as it was by a long way my best fish on the streams here in the Cape...

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Smallblaar Beat 2 - 2nd April 2010
Sage 00#

Took 9 fish that day, all sighted fish.... lost or dropped the same number... was a very lekker welcome back to the streams!
 

gallieman

Senior Member
awesome neptune , the smalblaar always has a few hogs and the average size of the fish are always bigger than the other streams.
I took this on beat1 elandspad 2 weeks ago , thats the type of scene that gets my hands itching for my rod.
 

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