How about a thread where everyone post's their Sma
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Hi Zane,
Those are both Breede smallmouth but above Worcester. They are there for sure. The conventional tackle one was caught a few weeks ago and the fly caught one was in 2006. They were on private stretches of the river.
On the day a few weeks ago, we caught 2 smallmouth, lost another, and 4 largemouth. The Smallies were caught on a Junebug/Chart Trick Worm, a Brown and Purple Finesse Worm, and the one lost was on an olive/petrol brush hog.
We are by no means bass gurus (once or twice a year only), but we have kinda figured from our trips that the Smallies like the rocky unsilted areas close to faster flows, whereas the largies will hang out in the reedy/sandy areas with more cover close by, eg the little bays with slack water and trees hanging over. It may be that you are targeting the largie areas rather than the smallie areas.
If you see a pile of rocks underwater, there is more than likely a smallie there so that is also a good place to try...
Here is cptfly's smallie from that day: He is standing on the pile of rocks the fish was hanging by:
Cheers
Grant
Those are both Breede smallmouth but above Worcester. They are there for sure. The conventional tackle one was caught a few weeks ago and the fly caught one was in 2006. They were on private stretches of the river.
On the day a few weeks ago, we caught 2 smallmouth, lost another, and 4 largemouth. The Smallies were caught on a Junebug/Chart Trick Worm, a Brown and Purple Finesse Worm, and the one lost was on an olive/petrol brush hog.
We are by no means bass gurus (once or twice a year only), but we have kinda figured from our trips that the Smallies like the rocky unsilted areas close to faster flows, whereas the largies will hang out in the reedy/sandy areas with more cover close by, eg the little bays with slack water and trees hanging over. It may be that you are targeting the largie areas rather than the smallie areas.
If you see a pile of rocks underwater, there is more than likely a smallie there so that is also a good place to try...
Here is cptfly's smallie from that day: He is standing on the pile of rocks the fish was hanging by:
Cheers
Grant
My biggest smallie, unfortunetly do not know what the official weight was as I had no scale on the boat. The person that was on the boat with me caught a smallie even bigger than this one about an hour before me. The weight of this fish was guessed at over 3Kg at the time.
Billaridoo
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Goood catch Sage. Them lures working for you?
Hi Bastion,
I occasionally fish the Slanghoek district and catch smallmouth there regularly. I must admit though that it's not fireworks and that you must work hard for your fish. (I have become spoilt by the Cederberg rivers that literally teem with smallmouth.)
However I must say that the Breede will deliver bigger smallmouth than the Cederberg rivers (excluding Clanwilliam dam). I find the Breede smallmouth to be stockier more robust fish. It's a real shame though that they are on the way out of the Breede system...
I occasionally fish the Slanghoek district and catch smallmouth there regularly. I must admit though that it's not fireworks and that you must work hard for your fish. (I have become spoilt by the Cederberg rivers that literally teem with smallmouth.)
However I must say that the Breede will deliver bigger smallmouth than the Cederberg rivers (excluding Clanwilliam dam). I find the Breede smallmouth to be stockier more robust fish. It's a real shame though that they are on the way out of the Breede system...
