Little Green Fish
Sealiner
KAY, so here goes:
We got there and found VC (all longfaced) on thursday afternoon (wife had a serious medical condition that forced us to leave later than planned). Pitched the tent inflated daducky and rigged the rods.
VC left and the fun and games started, immediately rigged Fat albert grub's Watermelon Red on a Carolina rig and it was fish on, the usual nursery school full of small ones. Went to sleep early (would regret this later) so that we could get up early the next morning to do some topwater fishing etc.
Zara Popper (the huge one) got smashed on the third retrieve that made me lose my cool, screaming like a second grade girl that just got an eye to eye view with a Huge Tarantula, and off it went, still churning the surface water but I couldn't get the lure back onto the spot fast enough as it got stuck out on the bank (due to the wild hookset) MUDDA that fish was scary, this was about 05:35.
The Kid wandered off to the launch and second cast got his 10lb flurocarbon broken off by something that had enough power and weight to do so, he re-rigged and went back to the reeds adjacent, second time round he hooked into a 2,14kg piggy.
The rest of the day we spent busting the nurseries to shreds, friday night was when I started regretting going to bed early on thursday evening as this is what happened:
Deadsticked one rod accross my lap (from the bank) and slow retrieved another accross the bay where the bus made me scream earlier that morning, and let and behold, the deadsticked rod (drag loose like tastic before it's cooked) started making papgooi sounds. Yes the reels started screaming, so the obvious was yanking the rod upwards to get a proper hookset on the (when landed) 2,80kg. Took the pics, weighed her fat Beehind set her off in the water and repeated the entire thing again, only this time the slow dragged lure on the other rod delivered thenext monster two casts later, yes a very healthy 2,42kgs piggy.
After this we got a couple (no less than 4) serious enquiries that saw lines moving some disatance towards the eastern side of the dam, but no hooksets or poor hooksets let us to only land the small nursery kids up and until 23:00 that night.
Saturday the weather that was deteriorating since we got there finally kicked in at 09:00 the morning and everything went dead, not one bite.
We didn't see the fish swimming against the sides as normal not even the small ones and the wtare temp went from 13.9 degrees C on thursday afternoon to 12.3 on Saturday at 09:00.
We had a blast and have already made plans for the first week perhaps the second week in Dec to return when its a wee bit warmer (yes we froze our everythings off) but it was worth every chill and aching fingertip and toe.
Pics of the three bigs ones to follow.
We got there and found VC (all longfaced) on thursday afternoon (wife had a serious medical condition that forced us to leave later than planned). Pitched the tent inflated daducky and rigged the rods.
VC left and the fun and games started, immediately rigged Fat albert grub's Watermelon Red on a Carolina rig and it was fish on, the usual nursery school full of small ones. Went to sleep early (would regret this later) so that we could get up early the next morning to do some topwater fishing etc.
Zara Popper (the huge one) got smashed on the third retrieve that made me lose my cool, screaming like a second grade girl that just got an eye to eye view with a Huge Tarantula, and off it went, still churning the surface water but I couldn't get the lure back onto the spot fast enough as it got stuck out on the bank (due to the wild hookset) MUDDA that fish was scary, this was about 05:35.
The Kid wandered off to the launch and second cast got his 10lb flurocarbon broken off by something that had enough power and weight to do so, he re-rigged and went back to the reeds adjacent, second time round he hooked into a 2,14kg piggy.
The rest of the day we spent busting the nurseries to shreds, friday night was when I started regretting going to bed early on thursday evening as this is what happened:
Deadsticked one rod accross my lap (from the bank) and slow retrieved another accross the bay where the bus made me scream earlier that morning, and let and behold, the deadsticked rod (drag loose like tastic before it's cooked) started making papgooi sounds. Yes the reels started screaming, so the obvious was yanking the rod upwards to get a proper hookset on the (when landed) 2,80kg. Took the pics, weighed her fat Beehind set her off in the water and repeated the entire thing again, only this time the slow dragged lure on the other rod delivered thenext monster two casts later, yes a very healthy 2,42kgs piggy.
After this we got a couple (no less than 4) serious enquiries that saw lines moving some disatance towards the eastern side of the dam, but no hooksets or poor hooksets let us to only land the small nursery kids up and until 23:00 that night.
Saturday the weather that was deteriorating since we got there finally kicked in at 09:00 the morning and everything went dead, not one bite.
We didn't see the fish swimming against the sides as normal not even the small ones and the wtare temp went from 13.9 degrees C on thursday afternoon to 12.3 on Saturday at 09:00.
We had a blast and have already made plans for the first week perhaps the second week in Dec to return when its a wee bit warmer (yes we froze our everythings off) but it was worth every chill and aching fingertip and toe.
Pics of the three bigs ones to follow.
