Hi Guys
Fished the Olifants River this past weekend. The days were very hot, as usual for this time of the year, with moderate cloud cover and some rain during the late evenings and nights. Luckily the thunderstorms missed us every time with no more than a couple of km's.
At this stage the river is quite clear with the visibility at approximately 2 -3 feet. Water temperatures averaged between 21 and 24 degrees and the flow is steady creating slow to medium rapids where the narrow streams runs into the typical wider slower sections.
The fish were responding very well to baitfish patterns and 80% of the fish were caught on flukes, jerk baits etc. Top water lures did not produce at all and only a couple of fish were taken on brushogg / creature type plastics.
Our most succesfull tactic was actually to fish the faster rapids by casting upstream and only twitching the lure every now and then on it's way down. It seems that currently the fish are congregating in the faster water ambushing baitfish. Only 3 decent fish were taken in the wider slower river sections. Although fish were taken throughout the day the best times proved to be between 12H00 and 14H00.
All and all we managed 55 fish with 23 over the 2kg mark.
We did spot quite a number of crocs so take care when fishing the Olifants.
Fished the Olifants River this past weekend. The days were very hot, as usual for this time of the year, with moderate cloud cover and some rain during the late evenings and nights. Luckily the thunderstorms missed us every time with no more than a couple of km's.
At this stage the river is quite clear with the visibility at approximately 2 -3 feet. Water temperatures averaged between 21 and 24 degrees and the flow is steady creating slow to medium rapids where the narrow streams runs into the typical wider slower sections.
The fish were responding very well to baitfish patterns and 80% of the fish were caught on flukes, jerk baits etc. Top water lures did not produce at all and only a couple of fish were taken on brushogg / creature type plastics.
Our most succesfull tactic was actually to fish the faster rapids by casting upstream and only twitching the lure every now and then on it's way down. It seems that currently the fish are congregating in the faster water ambushing baitfish. Only 3 decent fish were taken in the wider slower river sections. Although fish were taken throughout the day the best times proved to be between 12H00 and 14H00.
All and all we managed 55 fish with 23 over the 2kg mark.
We did spot quite a number of crocs so take care when fishing the Olifants.