Hillcrest Wine Farm: The Quarry is Open for Fishing

Marthin

Marthin

Sealiner
IT's a wonderfull venue, and if it's anything like when i was last there very nice pozzie to take up freshwater fishing.
 
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Loams

Sealiner
Ag, that just looks and sounds perfect!!!

Why is it that the only places in JHB like this is:

1. Unsafe??
2. Got broken bottles lying around everywhere???
3. Unkept??
4. Unsafe??
5. Devoid of any place for kids to play??
6. Full of drunk brandewyn swirling so called "fishermen"??
7. Unsafe??
 
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Scrat

Senior Member
Looks like a nice spot to go tubing! 

I drove past a place in Josies this morning where people started dumping all kinds of ruble next to the road in a veld. It getting so bad that the ruble is lying in parts of the road. There is a waterwetland next to this "homemade" dumping site. The same happend to Vasity in  Vdb and now the vlei has been poluted so bad that hundreds of fish died and nobody can go there anymore. I a sad situation!

!!!!!"BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY"!!!!!!......................... LOL!!!
 
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Scrat

Senior Member
I dont know what going on there? I should actually go past there sometime. I dont know how long it will take to recover. They did do a cleanup after the spill but I am no expert. There was no talk of bass dying in the reports. (it could be that they dont want to admit there is bass in the vlei or the bass are tuff and did not die) We know that there is bass there as we caugth bass everytime we went there. With all the rain we had it could be recovering as the water flows throught inlet and outlet of the dam at quite a speed. The inlet is fed by masive rainwater channel that comes from 6 suburbs. We had 40ml/hour just over this weekend. Thats alot of rain for two days! The biggest thing bothering me is that this vlei drizzels into the Vaal river 1km away. So this is actually more serios than most people may think. my 2c!!!
 
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Southpaw

New member
ive been to hillcrest a couple times.
only got trout on crankbaits.
will only go back when i have a tube or some kind of boat/canoe, because some guys told me the bass are around the back of the island
and the viz there...can see 5/6m down easy.
 
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basslover

Senior Member
a friend of mine lives near bedworthpark and he rides allot there with his quad, he says its still stinking and dirty as hell!!!but will go and have a look.
 
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basslover

Senior Member
a friend of mine lives near bedworthpark and he rides allot there with his quad, he says its still stinking and dirty as hell!!!but will go and have a look.
 
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Brushhog

Senior Member
Hi,i live very close to Hillcrest,R75 entrance fee isnt it??Please can anyone tell me if they get bass there??
 
Marthin

Marthin

Sealiner
Hi,

Yes there is bass in the dam. and some big ones with hundreds of smaller ones.  Unless they killed off all the fish and restocked, there are HUGE catfish in there as well.  Decent carp.  In the heat of summer fishing next to the high/deep cliffs on the southern side worked well with a weighted fluke casting right next to the quarry wall. and letting it drop down...
 
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Liftcrazy*

New member
I really must try this spot again... Maybe when the water level is lower.

It was not fun spending the whole day, only to get one smallie.
 
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