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Hi, I am planning a trip to Bloemhof next week for 4-5 days and badly want a barbel of 20kg+. I will be using a Purglass Executive 400/2 rod with a Torium30 loaded with 35lb kingfisher line. Hooks will probably be 10/0 with baits varying from whole chickens to 2kg fish heads. I need help with...

I picked up my 3yr old son yesterday after creche and met a mate at the plaat for a bit of late afternoon fun with the cats, after inflating the ducky and loading up we were off to one of my favorite spots armed with an assortment of lures and a bucket of platties, normally I put a plattie out...

My old man moved to NZ not too long ago and is having the time of his life with his fly rods, he sent me this pic of a recent rainbow he caught claiming a weight of 4kg, it is a beaut. I have no idea this fish was released or not, I know he normally releases the big ones.

Two aliens landed  near a petrol station that was closed for the night. They approached one of the gas pumps.  The younger alien addressed it saying,  'Greetings, Earthling.  We come in peace.  Take us to your leader.'   The gas pump, of course, didn't respond.     The younger alien...

I am going to try my hand at making my own boilies and will be using the DT range of products, on downloading all of their recipes every one includes 1ml of L.M.P.S.E. and I cannot find reference to what it is. Does anyone here know what it is? Thanks.

Just thought I would share this with you guys. I took my dad and brother fishing this weekend to Laurentia as the fishing there is normally quite easy so we were guaranteed some fish. On Sunday morning we were doing a rebait and I got caught on the snag fishing peg1 halfway between the peg and...

I read a few remarks about Tiger Nuts and it has been eating at me as to wether they are actually good for carp or not, in searching for answers I came accross this article by Tim Richardson who is a renowned bait maker and big carp hunter. He answered alot of my questions and puts forth some...

I came across this video on Youtube demonstrating the effectiveness of using tubing on your hook to set the angle of the hair, I can only assume its for effective hook turn. It makes for interesting watching, it is also another reason why I tie all my own rigs and have switched to an anti-eject...

I am just wondering if any of the carp guys have plans for december? I am going to try and break my pb between christmas and new years by spending 5 days at buffels, going to try a new combi rig and am gonna start balancing my baits, actually think its my first serious specimen trip for the...

My brother is a Sat Tech on a commercial dive vessel, I got these pics from him, the machine you see is an ROV use to do underwater work.... And he tells me they are not allowed fishing from the vessel:fishn  

I came accross this article while searching for this fresh water sting ray a mate told me about, it made for some very interesting reading. I had no idea that some fresh water fish got this big!!! Check it out and drool... http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071115-megafishes.html  

Just want to say hi, been posting here for about 2 weeks now and want to say that this is a great forum, much better than another popular fishing forum I tried to register on recently. I am landlocked at the moment but grew up in durbs so i have saltwater in my veins, currently I am loving carp...

Hi guys, I play alot of browser based online strategy games, this is not one of them but it is fun however, it is in french, simply give yourself a name and fight. I get a point every time I beat one of you :) I dont think anyone here will win, you dont actually fight yourself, you just watch...

My brother-in-law caught this 22.1kg specimen recently, I thought I would share the pic here. Unfortunately I am not at liberty to state the location of where the fish was caught. It was caught on 18mm peach boilie with shimano big pits on Shimano beast masters, not sure what line he was using...

Hi, Rushmere and Kwaggas are both full this weekend so I am going to do my first carp trip to Rust de Winter. Does anyone have any advice for me please? I have only fished bass there before and dont know the dam all that well as far as carp is concerned, I will be fishing particles, any input...