Hey all. I am thinking of going down to the Breede

[HP]

Another juvenile Steenbras. We caught a whole bunch of them the morning. gives a good rev on the light tackle.

 

[HP]

A nice Grunter

 

[HP]

The afternoon we decided to target some garrick at our favourite spot.

First one was a baby.

 

[HP]

We had a nice double up on the pearl watermelons.

 

[HP]

Another garrick, this one on a chiselnose.

 

[HP]

The biggest one we managed to land. Also on a white chiselnose.

 

[HP]

We managed to get a couple more garrick, but unfortuanately our "camerawoman" got borred and headed back to the house. It was an hour of mayhem . We were smashed all over the show by the big ones. We had a few on for more than 10 minutes when either the leader would snap or hooks would pull. The biggest one was lost after about 15 minutes and taking about 150m of line, it gave a great display of jumps and tailwalks, eventually the knot onto the popper pulled (amature mistake!!) Tackle used was a diawa exceler 2500 with 6lbs Suffix braid and 10lbs fireline and 8ft exceler, a 2500 daiwa regal, silstar 40 with 10 lbs braid and shimano solara rods and some other no-names.

 

[ThefishinMagician]

Any insider tips... we are looking at visiting Infanta at the end of the month.

 

[camstaude]

Awesome catches, great stuff

 

[ebs]

HP wrote:

The biggest one we managed to land. Also on a white chiselnose.

i would love to know how this fight went down

 

[aquadementia]

Great stuff. Never heard of a garrick jumping and tailwalking, sure it wasnt a big shad or maybe a springer?

 

[will101]

Maybe it was being chased by something bigger.

 

[HP]

Ha ha, no, I am pretty sure they were garrick. One or two of them actually smashed the poppers with half their bodies out the water. I have also never before witnessed something like that. Maybe they were being chased by those big Zambezis, lol!

 

[barie12345]

HP wrote:

The biggest one we managed to land. Also on a white chiselnose.

Hoekom sit mense visstokke in hulle monde?

 

[smiley6996]

HP wrote:

Off to Witsand/Breede the 18th of September. Hopefully that will be the weekend I get my first spotted grunter on dropshot. Got the camo worm, got the shrimp, got the little yellow paddle tails... anything else anyone can reccomend??? Hope the river isn't going to be to fresh! 

Throw surface lures at them it's the best way to catch them this one was 58cm

 

[HP]

barie12345 wrote:

HP wrote:

The biggest one we managed to land. Also on a white chiselnose.

Hoekom sit mense visstokke in hulle monde?

Jis die is n ou thread!
Ek weet nie, ons het dit maar gedoen om die tackle wat ons gebruik ook in die foto te kry. Het opgehou nadat ek n gat in een van my grips gebyt het Ons rus die stok nou oor ons bene

 

[HP]

smiley6996 wrote:

HP wrote:

Off to Witsand/Breede the 18th of September. Hopefully that will be the weekend I get my first spotted grunter on dropshot. Got the camo worm, got the shrimp, got the little yellow paddle tails... anything else anyone can reccomend??? Hope the river isn't going to be to fresh! 

Throw surface lures at them it's the best way to catch them this one was 58cm

Nice Smiley
That's an Eastern Cape thing mate
Sure you might get one in a hundred here in the Western Cape, but nowhere near as many as your side.
But we keep trying hey

 

[twinkeltoe3]

HP wrote:

smiley6996 wrote:

HP wrote:

Off to Witsand/Breede the 18th of September. Hopefully that will be the weekend I get my first spotted grunter on dropshot. Got the camo worm, got the shrimp, got the little yellow paddle tails... anything else anyone can reccomend??? Hope the river isn't going to be to fresh! 

Throw surface lures at them it's the best way to catch them this one was 58cm

Nice Smiley
That's an Eastern Cape thing mate
Sure you might get one in a hundred here in the Western Cape, but nowhere near as many as your side.
But we keep trying hey

HP bud I've got myself one of those x walk rapalas smiley is showing us... My friend also got a few... Next we will try and and get the grunters on them at witsand... Ill keep you updated if we got them on the surface lures!
Cheers
Charl