New micro season

[kaptein delarey]

Hi

The last time I checked, about 2 weeks back, none of the micro species have 'woken up' yet from their winter lethargicness ...

Going out this weekend to see if I can catch a few. Will also be trying out my new 'el cheapo' telescopic pole I got from a China shop - it should work a charm for dipping for micros. Will target mosquito fish, vlei kurper and dwarf kurper. If all else fails I'll try for some bigger bass and barbel.

Will let you all know how it went.

Cheers

 

[Droomvanger]

Where are you going? I am at OppiKoppi Bass Farm, helping Juniors this Saturday. There is a number of small species. Looking forward helping the juniors. :fishn

 

[Steve Catlin]

I purchased a 12ft Telescopic Carp rod today, after about 5 2 hour sessions with a 7ft it is time to change tactics. Sometimes your rod is just too short to get to that spot you need to be. Let us know how your day went Micro Fishing.

 

[aquadementia]

sorry Steve, you're going in the wrong direction... you want to go shorter on the rod and fish the right places... this is how I micro fish

with this little bamboo twig I have caught 9 species (
kurper (blue, redbreast, dwarf, vlei, canary), largemouth bass, chubbyhead gillie, dwarf tiger, mosquitofish) and you can add 3 spot gillie to that list if you add my 4ft ultra light rig. I'm certain you are fishing the wrong areas if you havent caught anything in 10 hours of fishing

 

[Steve Catlin]

This is what happens when you fish in isolation, on the plus side I can probably use the 12ft for dipping for Carp. I have not seen any small fish swimming around, so I have been fishing blind, next to tree stumps, floating plants, between reeds etc.Might be a good idea to spot the fish first. lol.

 

[aquadementia]

yeah, seeing it first hand is invaluable. try find some youtube videos of guys catching mosquitofish, should give you the right idea

the 12ft will probably be fine for carp and small barbel

 

[Droomvanger]

It is very early in the season and most smalls are still hiding in the deep waters. Within a month from now it will be much easier.

 

[kaptein delarey]

Droomvanger wrote:

It is very early in the season and most smalls are still hiding in the deep waters. Within a month from now it will be much easier.

Totally agree, I dipped around for about an hour on Saturday only to catch one dwarf kurper. This dam is usually swarming with micro species like vlei kurper, dwarf kurper and mosquito fish.

Here's the lekker fat dwarf I caught. Rigged a small white Sada ball lure on an Owner tanago hook.

Very pretty coloured fish

Cheers

 

[Steve Catlin]

Very nice colours, well done.

 

[kaptein delarey]

aquadementia wrote:

sorry Steve, you're going in the wrong direction... you want to go shorter on the rod and fish the right places... this is how I micro fish

with this little bamboo twig I have caught 9 species (
kurper (blue, redbreast, dwarf, vlei, canary), largemouth bass, chubbyhead gillie, dwarf tiger, mosquitofish) and you can add 3 spot gillie to that list if you add my 4ft ultra light rig. I'm certain you are fishing the wrong areas if you havent caught anything in 10 hours of fishing

I used to use an old 6'6 spinning rod I had for small specie dipping, but it was a bit of a hassle carrying a lot of rods around as I (currently) do most of my anglling from the bank.

I now got me a cheap (R50.00) Chinese copy of a Japanese tenkara rod. It's telescopic and folds down to just 51cm, but can extend to 3.6m and all the lengths in between.

It's easy to just pop into my backpack and take out when needed.

I attach a small length of line to the rod's lillian (the piece of string on the tip). To this line I attach a small clip onto which I just clip different pre-made traces as needed.

The rod has a very sensitive tip, so even small species feel 'bigger' ...

Cheers