Mokolo Dam 5-7 September

[Pershond]

This dam is awesome! Arrived at about 8:30 on Friday, set up camp and went exploring this huge dam. Within 90 minutes, after probably 20 dinks, I caught my PB at the dam wall. 3.75kg whoa!! Fishing was hectic, but mostly small fish came out. Probably caught 100 or so on Friday. Saturday was much the same with lots of dinks and only a couple of decent fish. My friend caught his PB on the very last cast of the day, also 3.75kg! A bit weird that both our fish weighed exactly the same...

Sunday was difficult for some reason, probably the wind that was blowing like hell for 2 days. Only caught 1 keeper and 20 or so dinks, left at about 11.

This dam has major big fish potential! Water clarity was 4m easily, lots of deep water, shallow flats and trees. Spoke to a guy and he said they catch 10-15 fish a day in the 4kg+ range in the spawn. If only we had gone a week or 2 later...

All in all it was an awesome weekend.

 

[Scrat]

Congrats, Do have some photies?

 

[Pershond]

Will post them as soon as I have them...

 

[BucknutZ]

nice report

 

[Ryan]

Thanks bud Nice report

 

[Kumz]

Nice report ... Well done ...

 

[Ryan]

Looking forwards to them Photies

 

[kanarie]

Hi P,

bet u had a ball off a time, i love that dam.Are the fish not on the nests yet? ussualy in the warmer northen province dams thy start spawning before the GP.

 

[Bushbaby]

Thanks for the report, sounds awesome, how far is the dam from PTA, and what sort of accom is there? Also heard this is a great dam for Kurper fishing - true or false?

 

[Ryan]

S-TRU

 

[Pershond]

The fishing was great, sizes not so great. We caught about 200 fish between 3 guys for the weekend, but most of them were rats. We removed lots of the small fish on the 2nd day (selective harvesting). Only caught 6 or so fish a day over 1kg,but the 2 big fish, and one of 2,2kg made up for that! That fish made my weekend within 90 minutes of being there! Don't know what the kurper fishing is like there. We saw lots of nests, but no fish on them. The water temp was between 18 (morning) and 22 degrees, but still no spawning fish. I think they are just waiting for the full moon to start their spawn, wich is this coming weekend.

We camped, very basic (no electricity, hot water, cellphone coverage,...), but there are nice trees to camp under. The dam is about 260km from Pretoria, through Nylstroom, Vaalwater, towards Thabazimbi.

All in all the experience was great, I'll definately go again later this year.

 

[Pershond]

3,75kg at dam wall.

 

[Pershond]

Same fish

 

[Pershond]

My friend's 3,75kg fish.

 

[Pershond]

2,2kg fish that was mis-handled by someone before

 

[basslover]

that couldv been another predator...never know?

 

[Ryan]

Damn those are fine fish.............
Congrats guys and thanks for the report......
MAybe need to pay that dam a visit on the spawn

 

[Ryan]

Okay so what were they caught on?
Plastics? -Colour size?
Cranks? Colour size?
Spinnerbaits?
JErkbaits?
Topwaters?

 

[Pershond]

Thanks guys. I'd love to go in the next 2 weeks, fishing should be insane! In Cape Town unfortunately, have to keep the girlfriend happy.

The injured fish had round marks on both sides. Cauld have been a croc or something, but I thing someone grabbed it.

 

[Pershond]

[color=#0066cc]Ryan[/color] wrote:

Okay so what were they caught on?
Plastics? -Colour size?
Cranks? Colour size?
Spinnerbaits?
JErkbaits?
Topwaters?

Most fish were caught on plastics, only caugh on cranks in low light conditions. The water was way too clear for spinnerbaits - you could easily see your DD14 swim on the bottom. My 2 big fish were caught on 4 inch watermelon candy dingers, anything watermelon worked! My friend's big one came on a 6 inch junebug dead ringer, after sunset. The key was the depth, I fished a small splitshot dinger in 4-7m of water 90% of the time. We even caught small fish in 12m of water at the dam wall!!