Loskop 15/16/17 Feb 08

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Ryan

Sealiner
Hey boys n girls.

We had our annual club family compo at Loskop over the weekend.

Weather could not have been more perfect - clear, Sunny windless days. Only draw back was it was flippin HOT but hell beats the cold.

Most peeps arrived on Friday afternoon, some as early as Wednesday for a prefish. I had to work till Thursday night so I was up at 2 bells on friday mornin and arrived Loskop[ 06h30. Set up camp and hit the old water with my fishing Partner (Christian my boetie). First cast of the day my boet nails a 9kg barbel and we find many barbel cruising the shallows and relativly easy to catch - needless to say we got a bit hooked on barbel and forgot to get everything else. We came off the water at about 13h00 - Just way too hot....

 
 

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Ryan

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16h00 we head back out on the water insearch of some other species.

During the break we fiddled around the reed patch close to the OL boat house and here we found Vlei, Blue, Red and Ghielies.

So now we had those sorted we thought we would go give the Makriel a bash but alas they were having nothing of the sort.

However I managed to pick up a wee bass in the brownest murkiest waters I have seen in a long time on a Rapala rattle trap - see attached Photie...
 

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Ryan

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So Friday Night came and needless to say I went from one party to the next saying hello to all my fellow club members and their respective families - any by the time I got back to my tent I was wobbiling much better - cause everytime I stopped I was forced fed a few beers.

Sat came and up at 5bells as our schedule was as follows.

6am start off

10 - 11am Brunch at the resturant (I really needed this after my rounds)

4pm Lines up

16h30 weigh in

First thoing we did is look for the Makriel and after about 30 mins of futile casting I suggest to the boetie that we trawl a bit as it is a very effective way of catching makriel especially when they have lockjaw - we did not even go 10 meters and we had our first makriel on the boat. So we went in a large circle and again trawled over it bang - chris got his.

Off to look for the barbel where we had caught them the day before but alas we got there and Loskop now looked like Roodeplaat with green Paint everywhere (green algae in the water) in our endevours to locate barbel I noticed some bubbles from a way off and asked Chris for my carp dipping stick and so I proceeded to dip on the bubbles and it felt like I had it a snag and my intial thoughts were damn I stuffed this one up but suddenly the snag woke up and shot off and a few minutes I bagged a pretty decent carp.

And this is where it stopped for the morning. So I was 2 yup and Chris was three up he had Makriel, RED and Ghielie.

Needless to say we got to breakfast and most of the lads were on 5 species
 
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Ryan

Sealiner
SO I was in quite a hurry to get back onto the water insearch of my outstanding species.

This is when I decided to change my tactics and share information with some of the other guys in the club. Some guys are very tightlipped (especially the good ones) where as the better than average are a little forthcomming with info. So I quickly established where to pick up a few size reds which we did.

Then I traded this info with one of the other boats for info on where to get Dwarf and vlei Kurper. Which I was able to nail fairly quickly. Then I had a spot marked out for Glassies and dwarf tigers but when I got there there were already 2 boats in the very spot  (they were however friendlies and said I should pull in.) I told them where to get Vlei and Dwarfs - and in return they showed me how to pull a size bass from the spot - third cast for me. Both boats pulled out for the Small kurper and I moved in for the Glassie and DT which I also got onto the boat real quick in the mean time my boet pulled a 1.25kg bass on the otherside of the boat.

As we moved out we bumped another boat and I exchanged info for finding blues and we were able to get them relativly quick too.

Then it was after Ghilies which we found with relative ease and we even managed a couple of Papierbek which were undersized and we could not weigh
 
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Ryan

Sealiner
Most of the other Boats hit a blank after lunch.

So yours truely took the compo with 10 species (11 if you include the Papierbek) and I missed barbel (which just about all the other boats took)

2 place went to 6 Species.

3 to 5species

So on and so forth.

The sun burnt the poo out of us and there was not a whole herd of enthusiasm to fish on Sunday......

What a great weekend....;):D
 
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Loams

Sealiner
dat are pretty bass. Me want to catch nice fisshie like dat... hiiiiiiiiiieeeeeer vissie vissie!!!!!
 
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Reefman

Sealiner
Ryan.... what a great report! Thanks for that... and congrats on keeping the Sealine flag flying high... Well done, boet!
 
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