So we ended up going to Tago and not Koppies as it was impossible to fish there.
Day1
We arrived at Tago and the weather was perfect. Sunny & no clouds. We started putting up camp and the first 2 rods was in at about 18:00.The first real run came at about 18:35 and was a nice carp of about 3 kg.Caught on honey/Tjop Tjop combo.
The weather started changing and we got a bit of wind and rain.3 Barbel rods went in at about 20:30( all small carp heads ) and left them aside and un watched.
Day 2
I woke up at 05:00 with a huge surprise!!! The hole of The Vaal dam was full of logs and trees and branches just were you look!!! It looked like a black cloud in the water. We could only start fishing again at about 09:00.The wind started calming and the logs came past in batches of about 2 hours. We could not fish with the canoe because of the trees coming down…before you get to drop your line it is stuck on a tree branch or something. So we had to cast and believe me when I say you had to be accurate. We caught about 12 fish for the day ( 1 barbel ) mostly on Plakker and Crazy Bull combo.
Day 3
Same story with the logs and trees. We caught 2 more barbel during the night…. 6.5 kg and 8 kg.The trees disappeared again and from there on until we left we caught them on Honey / Garlic combo. The fish came out regularly and in nice decent size for just casting. The owner ( Zorro ) said that were we fished that is about 10 m deep at about 80m. We had some fun with the 4 X 4 ‘s as some people got stuck and we had to help them and we also got stuck.
After all the fun and quite a nice weekend we caught about 35 karp and 3 barbel.This is now myself and Dawid & Morne.my brother and friend.
I will post some pictures tomorrow.
Day1
We arrived at Tago and the weather was perfect. Sunny & no clouds. We started putting up camp and the first 2 rods was in at about 18:00.The first real run came at about 18:35 and was a nice carp of about 3 kg.Caught on honey/Tjop Tjop combo.
The weather started changing and we got a bit of wind and rain.3 Barbel rods went in at about 20:30( all small carp heads ) and left them aside and un watched.
Day 2
I woke up at 05:00 with a huge surprise!!! The hole of The Vaal dam was full of logs and trees and branches just were you look!!! It looked like a black cloud in the water. We could only start fishing again at about 09:00.The wind started calming and the logs came past in batches of about 2 hours. We could not fish with the canoe because of the trees coming down…before you get to drop your line it is stuck on a tree branch or something. So we had to cast and believe me when I say you had to be accurate. We caught about 12 fish for the day ( 1 barbel ) mostly on Plakker and Crazy Bull combo.
Day 3
Same story with the logs and trees. We caught 2 more barbel during the night…. 6.5 kg and 8 kg.The trees disappeared again and from there on until we left we caught them on Honey / Garlic combo. The fish came out regularly and in nice decent size for just casting. The owner ( Zorro ) said that were we fished that is about 10 m deep at about 80m. We had some fun with the 4 X 4 ‘s as some people got stuck and we had to help them and we also got stuck.
After all the fun and quite a nice weekend we caught about 35 karp and 3 barbel.This is now myself and Dawid & Morne.my brother and friend.
I will post some pictures tomorrow.
