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[Marthin]

Yis,

Going to a venue over the weekend.  Will only have one morning and one afternoon to catch...

Here's the thing... Place has almost vertical quarry like walls.  Some dead trees hanging into the water... VERY VERY deep, water pretty clear (the real mountain stream brown colour but clear if you know what i mean).

There is one shallow patch with a sandy bottom with weed here and there...

Any tips??

 

[nutt]

Hi Marthin

Firstly you dont want to fall in or cause a landslide. Generally speaking the Quarry should be colder than any dams in the area because of the steep walls and the limited exposure to the sun so the bass you are fishing for could be pre-spawn or spawning but i'm guessing pre-spawn. So you should throw baitfish imitating lures like twitchbaits, slugo, Fuke, trick worm etc. If they are on the beds you dont really want to disturb them.

You will probably find the fishing is best midday to sunset but try the am topwater strike if youre there.

Hope this helps.

Cheers

Nutt 

 

[Marthin]

Thanx nut... Thank goodness!!! I spent about R500 on lures...

Went for a decent popper, some flukes (we had some success with flukes last time, baby bass and white in the mornings and afternoon and watermellon in the mid day) but this was in March.

I also got some grubs and brush hogs. The steep side of the area gets plenty sun as it faces north. We'll be fishing off a boat, so the landslide part isn't as bad

I suspect they might be starting to spawn in some spots. What is your views on catching spawning bass? I've caught a few at Doordekraal before and they didnt seem to worse for wear, and returned straight to the nest. I've seen the guys on ESPN target them, as long as you release them chop chop like?

When we were there in March there were lots of 800gr sizes around. But i've seen pictures of the 4.5kg specimens that also lurk in the water there.

Thanx for the help!

 

[nutt]

Hi Marthin

Only a pleasure, re the spawning fish I was just checking as some guys do not put them back immediately. Re The Bassmaster series on ESPN, they normally do not fish any lakes in the traditional spawning periods (To protect the species) but because bass do not all spawn at once you will still find spawning bass on any given lake and these are generally the one's they catch because spawning fish are the easiest to target.

It's cool that you are fishing from a boat, that always makes life easier, which quarry you fishing?

Cheers

Nutt

 

[Marthin]

going to Mofam... The Palmiet river, but actually more of a dam by the stage it get's to mofam... It's very deep and sheer cliffs on the sides.

The pine that have fallen into the water produced best last time round. I have a particular section in mind this time, depending on the waterlevel and if the structure is still the same as last.