Hi Guys I work very close to Rietvlei dam in Ir

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Land Locked

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Hi BarryC, Welcome to sealine and thanks for that very informative post. We hope you enjoy your stay.

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Rapala

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I went to this dam once and have to admit that it was the worst day of my fishing career!!

I stood in the water for about 5 minutes and then realized that i'm starting to loose conciousness, i stood there while my life flashed past my eyes and thought it was the end of me!

I then thought about it for a couple of seconds and realized that the only way you loose consiousness is because of blood loss, it then struck me and i looked doen to my legs.....i was covered in leaches! It took me about 15 minutes to get them off me!

There are no bass in that dam and i personally don't think that anything can live in that water! The attendant at the gate was honest enough tho to tell my before hand that there is no bass left in the dam but i didn't listen!

And that's the story of how my life almost ended at this dam!
 
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sustan

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sup,

took me a whle to find this thread again....

I decided to go exploring last week and landed up at rietvlei dam for a mid day session during the week.

I took my waders and managed 6 fish between 10am and 2pm. saw a couple in the shallows along with some grass carp and kurper i think. heres some pics of two of the bigger ones. I think there must be some big bass in that dam!

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sealady

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sustan wrote:
sup,

took me a whle to find this thread again....

I decided to go exploring last week and landed up at rietvlei dam for a mid day session during the week.

I took my waders and managed 6 fish between 10am and 2pm. saw a couple in the shallows along with some grass carp and kurper i think. heres some pics of two of the bigger ones. I think there must be some big bass in that dam!
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Awesome news sustan

Must visit this dam
 
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Van De Jager

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Nice fish dude, visited the dam two times since the start of the month but the water seemed too cold to produce bass, went to RDW and Plaat instead with little or no success at all. Something's not right, the bass fishing in and around Gauteng has deteriorated to such an extent that it's almost not worth while going out to fish any more, anyway I'll give it a bash before and after shifts during the next week and hopefully hook in to one of the big ones I saw erlier this year.
 
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sustan

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strange...if you dont mind drivng go check out homestead and bronkies....both doing really well lately!!!

RDV has had its ass kicked by bass fisherman the last couple of years and Plaat is just not easy. I would not say rietvlei is easy but its rewarding catching there, i was fishing slow and casting just behind the reeds with the waders
 
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rrebello

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theres a pic in one of last years SA Bass mags of a very healthy large mouth about 1.5kg out of rietvlei but thats all ive ever seen
 
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sustan

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R40 bucks...iv heard of a few 2kgers coming out of there last year, the guy at the dodgy fishing shop there told me he has seen a few but dont know...

i think if you were able to fish the sunken trees on the other side, the island and the river section you would catch some big fish...used to hold the SA record and looks like they didnt get completely wiped out so there must be some of 3-4kgs by now again
 
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Little Green Fish

Sealiner
NICE 1 Sustan, I went there a couple of tiems twice actually after I started this post but couldn't manage to get even a slight nibble, well was in work atire and couldn't wade, but thought if they were there they would deffs be just around the front end of the reeds where the papgooi gaps are made, anyhows, now I must go dig for my wader and hope the thing still fits, as from next week I should be back at the office which is just around the corner and there's nothing going on there so I'll be spending some serious time in the water, wading and trying out some of my new colour softs I've been making recently.
 
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Van De Jager

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Had a cool time fishing during the past week, got hammered big time, the fish are very aggressive, with mouths as hard as steel.Even manged to have a double hook up on Wednesday morning, big good quality hooks and a decent hookset is key.
 

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