bass fishing Clanwilliam dam

[castonefist]

hi there im going up 2 clanwilliam dam for the weekend 3-6 dec, Never fished it before but heard it is pritty good, any tips on lures, spots,ect.

thanks alot

 

[JasonVorster]

At the moment they taking on pretty much anything to be honest. Light texas rig and finess fishing always a great bet there.

Surface baits for eve and mornings.

Ringworms, baby brush hogs, 4"grubs. Black and chartruse always a winner there. Have also got some good fish on both junebug. Anything with a chartruse tail and ul be fine.

 

Enjoy and give some feedback when you back.

 

[castonefist]

Thanks you so much  for the info, will do cant wait lank excited.

 

[Southpaw]

I was at Clan with a friend at the begining of the month.

Mojo watermelon red stretch40

weighless watermelon red and june flukes

and tiny torpedo's were the baits that worked for us.

 

Enjoy and DONT forget the sunblock

 

[JasonVorster]

Sunblock is a BIG MUST!!Enjoy mate.

 

[TOE 007]

i concur iththe sunblock !!!


watermelon with red flakes finnesse worm , senkos , green pumkin grubs , baybass colour in junior flukes , mojo rigs , scale down your line posibly even down to 6 lbs , the water is very clear .

Cranks , any crank with orange , black , reds and copper colours , small rattl traps , Cranks in Babybass colour works wonders....

YOU HAVE TO take atleast take one or 20 , Chug bugs ,Zara Spooks ,Dying flutters , tiny torpedoes we have had the most AMAZING sessions on there with topwaters it the condisions allow you .

IMO the baby catipillar grubs in the above mentioned colour are deadly , not freely available in 3 inch but if you have some give them ago go .
Black and chartruese ringworms [however very 80's ] has claimed many trofhy size smallies in Clan .

finesse tactics DEF plays a big part in success in clan , we have put this to the test many times over the past 10 years , the guy fishing light line always landed more fish !

you can also look out and fish stick baits , in again oranges and browns , and so called 'perch' colours .

you can also try spinnerbaits , not to big , fish them swimming along the breaks of 45 degree banks .

my 2 c

 

[castonefist]

Thanks so much guys ill definitely give you some feed back, cant wait just one more day:fishn

 

[castonefist]

Amazing dam there are so many fish around, thank for all the assistance didnt catch a fish under 1kg it was best weekend i have had in a while, cought most of them on  4"wm red and spinner bait

Thanks for all the help

 

[castonefist]

BTW anybody know why there are so many dead fish in the water, heard a guy there that they poisoning all the non indigenous fishes, is there any truth to that couz it would be a real shame as it would affect the whole lower olifants as well

 

[Riaan_The_Legend]

Glad you got fish bud! Now to get you onto something else in Ballito! Check your mail later for some links, if I can find!

 

[MB]

Hi. Glad you had a good trip. The fact that there are a lot of dead fish around is very worrying. As far as I know it was decided not to kill the fish in the dam. Are there dead fish of a variety of species or is it only Blue Gill. This time last year we saw a lot of dead Blue Gill.

 

[JasonVorster]

Glad to hear you had a great weekend out at clan. Still my favourite to this day.
About the dead fish - bass? or blue gill? Not sure about that but I agree with MB it is very worrying - dont know anything of it but think it might be something we should try find out a bit more about. Would be a real shame to destroy such a great piece of water.

 

[castonefist]

Thanks again i saw at least 30 dead fish in 40 or so meters, mostly blue gills but there were a couple of baby bass(2) in the mix and there were alot in the water itself, to and you could smell it in certain places, we should try figure out whats happning

 

[boepens]

Hey chaps the dead blue gill r as results of 2 things 1 bait fish of different species often have a die off at diff times of the year from conditions and 2 have u seen how the smallies heard them up and smash them but often they r too big to swallow and the result lots of dead ones in patches if u want to get big smallies then winter time is best lipless cranks and light mojo with fluke juniour and skip shad juniour in natural colours near deep water slow retrieve and on bottom lipless when the wind blows they go mad for them

 

[castonefist]

Thanks alot boepens, i will be going back soon and will make a winter mission to.cant wait thanks

 

[Marcellieb1248]

Good Day. love this post as I live in Vredendal. Went to Clanwilliam Dam in December for a couple of days. Stayed at lebanon citrus farm (recommended). Had a great time. Caught many bass on Wacky Rig and Zara Spook (eish - Spelling) as well as Soft Bait Frog.

My 8 year old son caught his first big bass on Zara Spook - Stunning Place, Stunning Fishing,