Me and my 12 year old daughters camping/fishing weekend. Arrived Friday 16h00 and got the spot I wanted (Furthest left hand side). Pitched camp with rods in at 17h30. Weather not very nice with wind blowing and pretty cold.
Two barbels +- (1kg and 4kg) caught with crab and one carp +- 1kg.
Next morning was beautifull and things picked up. Carp only between 1-2kg keeping us busy. Very nice barbel on fish head.
Saturday night till about 22:30 busy with each catch bigger. Produces biggest carp +- 4kg. Left my scale at home and could not weigh (stupid).
Sunday morning misrable and started raining. Packed up and went hom at approximately 08h00.
21 Carp and for Barbel in total.
Bait - Good old brown bread with curry and caramel. One rod with Vaaldam strop and one with sliding Rietvlei. Small pieces of bait with hook point open. Plain Supercast feed. Both rods busy. Tried white sweet dough and several tipes of floaties and dipsbut good old brown bread did the thing. Fished from 10 - 50m. My daughter fish close and did pretty good at that distance.
No yellows, grass carps or muddies caught?
Worker with the name of Jan came to visit and brought business card and contact details of owner. As mentiond on other thread. Current manager will is being replaced at the end of March. The oompie being replaced is obvisously not to happy and is spreading untrue rumours. Lets hope that new management will put some effort in and get the ablutions sorted and kept clean. The river side (where we were) is littered and must be cleaned. Will not take much effort the get the place up to scratch.
To mention lastly. We chose a spot as far as possible away from other guests and am I glad. Probably 3 parties to the right of us (probably 500m away) a group came in on Saturday. Loud music, car staring constantly with battery going dead because of music, hard talk and shouting, swearing such as "jou ma se ......." etc. Gees I can not unberstand the mentality of such people. Hope the new manager will take care of this as well.
A few pics to follow:
Plenty of this size around:
Two barbels +- (1kg and 4kg) caught with crab and one carp +- 1kg.
Next morning was beautifull and things picked up. Carp only between 1-2kg keeping us busy. Very nice barbel on fish head.
Saturday night till about 22:30 busy with each catch bigger. Produces biggest carp +- 4kg. Left my scale at home and could not weigh (stupid).
Sunday morning misrable and started raining. Packed up and went hom at approximately 08h00.
21 Carp and for Barbel in total.
Bait - Good old brown bread with curry and caramel. One rod with Vaaldam strop and one with sliding Rietvlei. Small pieces of bait with hook point open. Plain Supercast feed. Both rods busy. Tried white sweet dough and several tipes of floaties and dipsbut good old brown bread did the thing. Fished from 10 - 50m. My daughter fish close and did pretty good at that distance.
No yellows, grass carps or muddies caught?
Worker with the name of Jan came to visit and brought business card and contact details of owner. As mentiond on other thread. Current manager will is being replaced at the end of March. The oompie being replaced is obvisously not to happy and is spreading untrue rumours. Lets hope that new management will put some effort in and get the ablutions sorted and kept clean. The river side (where we were) is littered and must be cleaned. Will not take much effort the get the place up to scratch.
To mention lastly. We chose a spot as far as possible away from other guests and am I glad. Probably 3 parties to the right of us (probably 500m away) a group came in on Saturday. Loud music, car staring constantly with battery going dead because of music, hard talk and shouting, swearing such as "jou ma se ......." etc. Gees I can not unberstand the mentality of such people. Hope the new manager will take care of this as well.
A few pics to follow:
Plenty of this size around:
