Nigel Dam

[Johanburger]

Hi guys!

Ive been to nigel dam yesterday and bewteen me and my friends we battled to catch any carp bigger than 1kg, and i know there are carp between 10-20 kg there as we have seen them on the dam during spawn time,just about every fish we caught was a fish smaller than my hand as in the picture below where we caught 2x fish on 1 line , the carp just destroys the bait as soon as it hits the water and at times the reel runs before u get a indicator on the line,we tried bigger baits , bigger hooks,stronger flavours, futher distances, with no success, even caught this little carp with 2 mielies on a hook. I guess the next step is to hair rig / specimen and try 5 mielies or boilies but i fear this dam has never been intrudced to this kind of fishing...

Anyone else fished at nigel dam and willing to share their secrets on how to catch the bigger carps?

Thanks in advance!

Tight lines

Johan!

 

 

[PI]

Great to hear that you can still fish there. What side of the dam do you sit, closer to the factories or closer to the golf course?

I havent been there since they closed it down, is it open again?

PI

 

[willem wikkel spies]

ja die dam is oop

die een kant maak toe einde maart "bote launch" en maak dan weer september oop. dit werk so elke jaar.

die kant by die gholfbaan is altyd oop.

is baie daar, maar nie vir hengel nie. ons was daaar in desember "kersdag", soos gewoonlik het die seuns krekkers.
besluit toe om een in die dam te gooi.

en daar kom toe klein karp en baars op, so 5cm lank.

let op dat dit nie aspris was nie, maar ja, die dam is vervuil met klein karp.
het self die groter karp gesien spawn, die 7kg range.
baie bass daar, en het hulle gelooi oktober november voor die reen.

oor kers dag het die manne ook baie klein karp gevang, dit was n gesukkel om groter vis te kry.

voor kersfees, was ons endag daar. iemand het n karp so 7kg gevang met kuns aas wat vir baars bedoel was.