Billaridoo
Senior Member
Heita fellas,
Went to Richards Bay over the weekend for work. While there I hoooked up with a local basser, Gert. He took us to the same private dam that Xavier shot his show at. WOW, WOW, WOW! Beautiful place, exelently managed and a bass angler's heaven.
We arrived at 11am and left at 17:30. In that time we caught 20 sub 1kg fish, I landed two 2 - 2,5 kg fish, two 1,5 kg fish and my bud also landed a 1kg'er.
For our last night we also stayed at Phuluma Bass Fishing Lodge near Mthubatuba and there we also landed a few, absolutely breathtaking place! A basser's paradise. caught my first top-water bass in their lillypads, 1,5 kg no pic, my cam fell in the water. O, Spro - of course....... My mate landed a decent fish early on our last day.
All the fishing was done on Zoom junebug finesse worms, 3/0 VMC's and my new found favourite, ultra light tackle - 5ft Loomis & Franklin ultra light rods, Shimano Sedona 500 & Daiwa Crossfire- E 1000 reels, 12 pound braid and 12 pound floro leader.
At the private dam we fished all patterns,simply because all types of structure & depths is found there. At the lodge we fished lillypads and shallows.
The bigger fish was unbelieveable on the fight. Ultra light makes every second memorable. You never mis a bite, just takes time to get use to the agressive strike and cautious retrieve. Once you do ultra light, you will never turn back!
Well, the pics I attach is what we had on my friend's cam, mine fell in the water and Davi Jones has himself a new Panasonic 10MP cam......
Please feel free to PM me for the Lodges details, unfortunately I cannot give to much detail on the private dam, as the owner asked that he does not want the spot over exposed.
Went to Richards Bay over the weekend for work. While there I hoooked up with a local basser, Gert. He took us to the same private dam that Xavier shot his show at. WOW, WOW, WOW! Beautiful place, exelently managed and a bass angler's heaven.
We arrived at 11am and left at 17:30. In that time we caught 20 sub 1kg fish, I landed two 2 - 2,5 kg fish, two 1,5 kg fish and my bud also landed a 1kg'er.
For our last night we also stayed at Phuluma Bass Fishing Lodge near Mthubatuba and there we also landed a few, absolutely breathtaking place! A basser's paradise. caught my first top-water bass in their lillypads, 1,5 kg no pic, my cam fell in the water. O, Spro - of course....... My mate landed a decent fish early on our last day.
All the fishing was done on Zoom junebug finesse worms, 3/0 VMC's and my new found favourite, ultra light tackle - 5ft Loomis & Franklin ultra light rods, Shimano Sedona 500 & Daiwa Crossfire- E 1000 reels, 12 pound braid and 12 pound floro leader.
At the private dam we fished all patterns,simply because all types of structure & depths is found there. At the lodge we fished lillypads and shallows.
The bigger fish was unbelieveable on the fight. Ultra light makes every second memorable. You never mis a bite, just takes time to get use to the agressive strike and cautious retrieve. Once you do ultra light, you will never turn back!
Well, the pics I attach is what we had on my friend's cam, mine fell in the water and Davi Jones has himself a new Panasonic 10MP cam......
Please feel free to PM me for the Lodges details, unfortunately I cannot give to much detail on the private dam, as the owner asked that he does not want the spot over exposed.
