bassing in sandton!!!
- Thread starter blue marlin
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[color=#006600]Bigmouth[/color] wrote:
We take our chances and go and when stopped at the gate we say we are there for fishing and see what they say
We take our chances and go and when stopped at the gate we say we are there for fishing and see what they say
[color=#006600]BucknutZ[/color] wrote:
Ok i don’t understand. First you say easy to get in there then when asked you come back with a reply of you will fail
Ok i don’t understand. First you say easy to get in there then when asked you come back with a reply of you will fail
blue marlin
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howzit guys!!!
as i said, i dont have a permit. when you get to the entrance, just drive through, if they ask just say you going fishing, they dont care, the guys that will maybe ask you for a permit are the guards inside. ive fished the dams 4 times, and only once have i been asked for a permit. i said i would get one, and he let me carry on fishing. dam 1- big carp, bass, kurper.
dam 2- lots of carp, (apparently)smallmouth bass.
dams 4-8 are on the johannesburg country club. this is a nature conservancy, so you are not allowed to fish. i am a golfer, and have seen many big bass there, especially in the spawn. however, there are two courses, the one is closed until next year, this course has the 3 big dams. if somebody could speak to them, maybe they would give us permission. dam 3 is on the property of the muslim church, im sure we could get permission to fish.
as i said, i dont have a permit. when you get to the entrance, just drive through, if they ask just say you going fishing, they dont care, the guys that will maybe ask you for a permit are the guards inside. ive fished the dams 4 times, and only once have i been asked for a permit. i said i would get one, and he let me carry on fishing. dam 1- big carp, bass, kurper.
dam 2- lots of carp, (apparently)smallmouth bass.
dams 4-8 are on the johannesburg country club. this is a nature conservancy, so you are not allowed to fish. i am a golfer, and have seen many big bass there, especially in the spawn. however, there are two courses, the one is closed until next year, this course has the 3 big dams. if somebody could speak to them, maybe they would give us permission. dam 3 is on the property of the muslim church, im sure we could get permission to fish.
OK so myself and Bigmouth went fishing there this afternoon for about 3 hours. Bigmouth managed to arrange with some contact for a permit for us. We fished dam number 2 first as we wanted to catch some smallmouth but with no luck. We saw some small carp and some curper but that was it. Spoke to one of the guys there and dam number 2 use to have some big bass in there and it was not unusual to land 2 or 3 fish between 3.5 to 4.5kg’s. But unfortunately some idiot poured paraffin in to a drain which ran in to this dam and all the fish died. So he said he does not think there are any bass in there. As they are stocking it with carp and curper. We did not see anything. Dam number one looked promising when we got there as you could see loads of fish of about 100grams along the side. And that was basically where it stayed. I got a small fish of about 400 grams and Bigbass also got a small one. We only saw one fish of around 800 grams. But there are some huge carp in the dam number 1.
So basically I don’t know if it is worth the trouble you need to go trough to fish these waters
So basically I don’t know if it is worth the trouble you need to go trough to fish these waters
