Bass in Jonkershoek?

[gt40]

all cool guys.its very exspensive to manage waters and there is only one way of doing this.same as the americans {electrofishing}if i had the backing from the private sector i would have been doing this.i am busy working with cape nature, stellenbosch uni, dwarf,gov with a project.

if any one has a questions regarding any thing feel free to contact me.i am doing my best from the private side to boost our fishing waters.

dont bite cape natures heads off because of what they stand for.they are imployed just like we are and have to follow orders.their orders from our local zoo/goverment

 

[will101]

BrendanD wrote:

Took the family down to Jonkershoek for a nature walk and the large dam in the middle of the reserve looks like an awesome smallie water. Does anyone know what the bass fishing is like?

I only ever fished this dam once and the only fish I caught was a small bass. Got a pic somewhere.

 

[gt40]

i have been on dam twice with electro fishing equipment and with dean impson and only got the odd trout and some well condition carp. th carp is growing atleast 6kg a year because of trout pellets dropping trough cages.the dam is bout 30m deep and is link to theewaters with a pipeline wich a bakkie can drive in but the is filters that is trying to keep fish out.

 

[DJP]

But how is it that the fishes (bass and barbel) eggs havent been transported to the dam? 6kg that is rather astonishing, I asume thats initial growth and then slows down as the carp matures?

 

[DJP]

We did some electro shocking in the lower reaches of the river when I was at US, got carp, bass, barbel, mosquitofish, tilapia (as I remember some blues).

 

[gt40]

DJP wrote:

But how is it that the fishes (bass and barbel) eggs havent been transported to the dam? 6kg that is rather astonishing, I asume thats initial growth and then slows down as the carp matures?

the trout pellets is high in protein.aslong as dam gets fed with trout pellets they grow faster than any natural dam.they do slow down.a friend caught a fish that should have been bout 4-6kg and weighed 12kg.  all eggs are laid in structure by carp and barbel.these eggs got to run trough pumps,filters and past trout and more carp. i have seen the odd time when small bass was taken out of a pipe 8km from river where water being pump from, but its a farmers set up. if there is barbel and bass there there numbers will be very very low.  

 

the story fishermen tells bout eggs on birds are a .... story, i know of number of dams full of birds where there is no fish. the fischerman transport 98% of fish to dams because of low stock, no stock or close to home where they can fish