Inanda Sep 12
It was a cold morning (well for KZN) at 9 degrees when we left at 5am... and my sweet wife had made us boat food (because the stinking garage we normally stop at never has food at 5am) and also packed some fairy cakes to celebrate my birthday on the water.
We arrived at the dam at 5:40am and there were already about 7 or 8 boats waiting at the gate and we had to wait a frustrating 23 minutes before the gate was opened... it was a club compo so we idled around to the camp site area where we met and had coffee and a brief captains meeting.. Thanks for the coffee as always Robin!
We headed off to Dutch’s Dip that we haven’t fished for ages and were surprised to see how dirty the water was down there... there was a wind already which was pretty nippy but we just used it to drift... my first cast of the day with my shaky head jig with Squirrel tail worm produced an nice fish of around 1,2kg’s from the channel... we drifted through the trees and along the bank on the other side and after 45 minutes of fishing had our bags and had started culling...
We then worked the banks and deeper water past Mad House and through Cabbage Patch up to S-Bends... we caught a lot of fish and continually upgraded albeit by a few grams each time... after that off to the Hump which we have fished a few times with no results and this time we at least caught a fish or two... then off to Joe’s Banks where we got back into the swing of catching fish... Howie lost a pig and was sad...
All in all an awesome day with us boating 41 fish (best number for a long long time) and every one a keeper with our biggest fish being around the 1,6 and 1,3 mark... the bites were very soft and similar to the bites we got at Midmar last week... I now know why I used to battle sometimes when I first started fishing... those bites are very hard to detect (especially in the wind) but if you concentrate you can feel them... we finished off 4[suP]th[/suP] and 5[suP]th[/suP] in the club compo. And we got sun burnt! Clear skies and wind... I may have to start taking my umbrella with in the near future!
An awesome day on the water!
It was a cold morning (well for KZN) at 9 degrees when we left at 5am... and my sweet wife had made us boat food (because the stinking garage we normally stop at never has food at 5am) and also packed some fairy cakes to celebrate my birthday on the water.
We arrived at the dam at 5:40am and there were already about 7 or 8 boats waiting at the gate and we had to wait a frustrating 23 minutes before the gate was opened... it was a club compo so we idled around to the camp site area where we met and had coffee and a brief captains meeting.. Thanks for the coffee as always Robin!
We headed off to Dutch’s Dip that we haven’t fished for ages and were surprised to see how dirty the water was down there... there was a wind already which was pretty nippy but we just used it to drift... my first cast of the day with my shaky head jig with Squirrel tail worm produced an nice fish of around 1,2kg’s from the channel... we drifted through the trees and along the bank on the other side and after 45 minutes of fishing had our bags and had started culling...
We then worked the banks and deeper water past Mad House and through Cabbage Patch up to S-Bends... we caught a lot of fish and continually upgraded albeit by a few grams each time... after that off to the Hump which we have fished a few times with no results and this time we at least caught a fish or two... then off to Joe’s Banks where we got back into the swing of catching fish... Howie lost a pig and was sad...
All in all an awesome day with us boating 41 fish (best number for a long long time) and every one a keeper with our biggest fish being around the 1,6 and 1,3 mark... the bites were very soft and similar to the bites we got at Midmar last week... I now know why I used to battle sometimes when I first started fishing... those bites are very hard to detect (especially in the wind) but if you concentrate you can feel them... we finished off 4[suP]th[/suP] and 5[suP]th[/suP] in the club compo. And we got sun burnt! Clear skies and wind... I may have to start taking my umbrella with in the near future!
An awesome day on the water!
