Dear forum, I am constantly scanning the interne

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Zane

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Dear forum,
I am constantly scanning the internet for new small mouth bass venues. After extensive searching on the internet & google earth I found a dam that is said to have a good small and large mouth bass population near Montagu.

Has anyone fished it and if so can you share some intel?
 
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R.J.

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howzit zane. I've fished Poortjies a couple of times from the bank, and always had good success. The dirt road you drive in on will take you to the dam wall. Nice deep water with rocky sides, caught nice largemouth here on deep diving cranks (crawfish with orange belly). The whole dam is scattered with little bays, all with awesome rock and timber. It's very fishable from the side although a boat would be a definate bonus. Never caught smallies there. If you're into carp, there are huge fish cruising around, I've seen pods of up to 50+ fish all over 5kg just cruising on the surface. You used to be able to sleep over there but they've stopped that, since some dooses made pigs of themselves. You enter left of the R62 and ask the lady at the first little house to let you in, entry from about 7am - 6pm. I know of bass up to 4.5kg being caught by local anglers from the Montagu angling club. It's definately worth a cast. Enjoy!
 
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Zane

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Thanx RJ,

Your advice is greatly appreciated. I fish off a explorer V-boat so it should not be a problem. Since we lost the Breede river to the barble invasion it has become very difficult to locate good smallmouth bass waters. Hopefully this place can deliver
 
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R.J.

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No worries Zane!
The V-boat should work awesome, as the dam is very low at the moment. Try and get to the eastern bank, and work into the right hand arm, I don't know how far it runs in at the moment, but it usually looks insane up there. Check out the carp on a dry fly, if you can. I've caught them by just floating bread crust into them. I have caught some nice smallmouth in farm dams around the Montagu area, but never at Poortjies, but have heard of some good specimens coming out there. Please let me know if you get any.
Tight Lines
 
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Zane

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Hi Quinton,

I did not go unfortunately as I opted to rather go to the Cederberg. Have you been there lately?

Sincerely,
 
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Quinton

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Hi Zane,

We going there this weekend, staying at Montagu Springs for the weekend. so I hope to get some fishing in there for a few hours.

will let you know how it goes.

Cheers,
 
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