Its been a while since I have had the pleasure of giving a trip report. So here goes.
Yesterday afternoon we left Gaborone Botswana to a private dam near Mafikeng and Lichtenburg. We got to water that has rarely seen any fishing... The dam itself is roughly the size of Murray park..... Boy was we in for a day of fishing....
I started the day on a spinnerbait, but only had small ones attacking it and not really catching them. My friend was on a buzz bait and by the time he landed two fish in 5 minutes I decided to dump the spinnerbait and to get a buzzbait on. now for those of you that dont know what these things look like, this is it here:
This was a double up we had...
One of many. Yesterday was special in many ways. One of the reasons was that I found a little honeyhole that kept refilling itself.... I took roughly 8 fish from the same spot, and eventually moved on just to keep my interest. Another reason was that I took my first Bass on a popper.... These fish were so eager to eat anything that you couldnt go wrong.
At some stage I decided that I want to catch something on my lite Berkley Cherrywood rod, and I rigged a plastic frog on.... I was on within 3 casts. 10 fish later and I had almost run out of frogs. I re-rigged a mangled frog and during the cast half of the frog fell off... While I was retrieving it to change the lure, I caught another fish... on half a frog!!!
As I mentioned before, yesterday was special in many ways. I now have a new PB of 2.5kg's here's the proof.
Total tally for the day.... who the hell knows?? I stopped counting after about 25 fish caught between 07:00 and 11:00. We stopped fishing at 13:00 and I reckon we had well in excess of 35 fish each. the top water action was just insane!!!
I apologise in advance my friends, for I may not reveal the location of this dam. Maybe if I get lucky one day I might be able to take one or two of you there, but I very much doubt it. the owner is adamant that he does not actually want anyone to fish it... But we are working on him....
Yesterday afternoon we left Gaborone Botswana to a private dam near Mafikeng and Lichtenburg. We got to water that has rarely seen any fishing... The dam itself is roughly the size of Murray park..... Boy was we in for a day of fishing....
I started the day on a spinnerbait, but only had small ones attacking it and not really catching them. My friend was on a buzz bait and by the time he landed two fish in 5 minutes I decided to dump the spinnerbait and to get a buzzbait on. now for those of you that dont know what these things look like, this is it here:
This was a double up we had...
One of many. Yesterday was special in many ways. One of the reasons was that I found a little honeyhole that kept refilling itself.... I took roughly 8 fish from the same spot, and eventually moved on just to keep my interest. Another reason was that I took my first Bass on a popper.... These fish were so eager to eat anything that you couldnt go wrong.
At some stage I decided that I want to catch something on my lite Berkley Cherrywood rod, and I rigged a plastic frog on.... I was on within 3 casts. 10 fish later and I had almost run out of frogs. I re-rigged a mangled frog and during the cast half of the frog fell off... While I was retrieving it to change the lure, I caught another fish... on half a frog!!!
As I mentioned before, yesterday was special in many ways. I now have a new PB of 2.5kg's here's the proof.
Total tally for the day.... who the hell knows?? I stopped counting after about 25 fish caught between 07:00 and 11:00. We stopped fishing at 13:00 and I reckon we had well in excess of 35 fish each. the top water action was just insane!!!
I apologise in advance my friends, for I may not reveal the location of this dam. Maybe if I get lucky one day I might be able to take one or two of you there, but I very much doubt it. the owner is adamant that he does not actually want anyone to fish it... But we are working on him....
