Its een a LONG while since i went fishing,allways been something on getting in the way keeping me from hitting the water with big hopes of getting a propper large mouth to fight with!
This weekend the weather didnt turn out bad it was worse than that,cold,wet,and fishing aint something high on anyones list of "things to do",but i had to go,come snow,flood,heatwaves what ever!
I phoned the owner of the dweba lapa lodge just outside pongola,and after work i finaly went fishing AT LAST!I arrived at the water about 14h00 and the water was teaming as the bass were busting small fry all over the place i tied a buzzbait on made about 50-80 casts and NOTHING,tried a popper and had no results with that either,tried a plastick worm,switched coulors,they ignored that too!I was about to give up when i took out the crankbait selection out of my tacklebox and thought to myself maybe this one will work.
It s a crank i bought from bassworld a while back for 20bucks out of their bargain bin,a small Lightning shad that swims to about 3m,i didnt use it before so i took a long shot!The very first cast i caught one,a small one but gave me a good wack!I moved on to another spot and the very next cast one more,to my surprize the third cast another fish!i got 12 in total in a matter of 20mins they ranged from 500grams to 2,5kg,it shows that one change could make or break a trip and experimenting isnt allways time wasting!Here is some picks to show some of the fish,and look how hungry they were!
This weekend the weather didnt turn out bad it was worse than that,cold,wet,and fishing aint something high on anyones list of "things to do",but i had to go,come snow,flood,heatwaves what ever!
I phoned the owner of the dweba lapa lodge just outside pongola,and after work i finaly went fishing AT LAST!I arrived at the water about 14h00 and the water was teaming as the bass were busting small fry all over the place i tied a buzzbait on made about 50-80 casts and NOTHING,tried a popper and had no results with that either,tried a plastick worm,switched coulors,they ignored that too!I was about to give up when i took out the crankbait selection out of my tacklebox and thought to myself maybe this one will work.
It s a crank i bought from bassworld a while back for 20bucks out of their bargain bin,a small Lightning shad that swims to about 3m,i didnt use it before so i took a long shot!The very first cast i caught one,a small one but gave me a good wack!I moved on to another spot and the very next cast one more,to my surprize the third cast another fish!i got 12 in total in a matter of 20mins they ranged from 500grams to 2,5kg,it shows that one change could make or break a trip and experimenting isnt allways time wasting!Here is some picks to show some of the fish,and look how hungry they were!
