jmgravenor
Sealiner
Hey guys,
Thought I would wait and do a report on most of the productive sessions I have had in these past few months. Where do I start...
Well, in Dec last year, I was doing some snooping around on google maps and found a nice secluded dam with some farm worker's houses surrounding it. I went with 2 little guys I fish with in the landrover to check it out. Got there and it was much bigger than expected. And we got permission. Awesome. So the next day we made a plan to take the boat out and launch it on this piece of water. The fishing was just on fire. Madness. Pitching into the reeds and hauling fish after fish outta there. We had a little bet going to see who could get the biggest bag and fish. The boys got scared when I picked up my Falcon Flippin' Stick. What fun. I had the biggest bag of the day so far.
The day was coming to an end when little Luke set the hook on a pig of 2.35kilos. He was chuffed hey. And on his new Falcon rod. What a pleasure.
I got my better fish on a 5" Peanutbutter Jelly Trick Stick.
A couple weeks later, my girlfriend had planned an outing far far away, in some mystical land I went with her family and of course, the rods went with. The first day I managed a dink smallie in the first 15 mins of fishing. And that was that. The sun went down all too quickly. The following day, my girlfriend and I were up early and drove down the the waterside. Set up and I hooked a canoe up to the back of my kickboat, just dragging her around. I must've caught close to 20 fish that day. And decent spotties, smallies and largies hey! They just loved what I threw at them!
The first good fish tried to swallow the BBB Kriet Tail Lizard I pitched into his personal space. Chomped.
Soon, I ran out of lizards and switched to BBB Real Deal Craws. Oh did they love that! Some small, fat fish came out too...
I even managed to fire up some fish on a SPRO Little John DD70 crank, just bouncing it along the rock bottom.
The first day was spectacular. The second, slowed down a bit. Many dinks but my girlfriend managed to hook a fish on a BBB Squirrel Tail fished weightless.
It was an amazing weekend away, and it ended too soon. I'll be back some day.
I have fished a few times after that but with no decent fish, until the KBT.
The KBT was held at Provost on Saturday and I drove through to Stanford to see my grandparents for one last time before I fly to Mauritius. Went to bed early, got up at 4, left at 4:30(Thanks mom). And had to meet at the peregrine farmstall at 5AM. It was cold and raining. Not too pleasant but I can deal with it.
We were off to the dam after registration and the rain and wind eased up. That helped. I was the first on the water if I can recall and was amped, as usual. I had a feeling that my little Jewel Swim jig would do me some good on the day. Everyone began kicking to their desired spots while I kicked away to mine, throwing the swim jig paired with a BBB Fighting Frog just to cover some water an find some fish. My first fish I hooked into...I thought was a carp. It just didn't budge. These provost fish are strong hey. I had to control my excitement and get back to work after I had landed my kicker. Good start to the day - CHECK!
I continued throwing the swim jig around the grass and lilies and picked up many more fish until I had a good 3-fish bag. I tried finding fish to cull mine but it was just not possible. Plenty dinks. I caught many more fish pitching a Fighting Frog and pitching a BBB HD Real Deal Craw on my lighter setup. It's pretty nerve-wracking trying to fish with the pressure that someone might just have bigger fish than you.
I fished as many spots that I thought were productive, as possible but the dam was packed. I came in at 12 and cleaned everything up for my little session after the comp. Re-tied and everything. I just didn't know where to fish anymore as well. There was nowhere to go!
1PM finally came and I patiently waited for everyone to weigh their bag until it was my turn. My kicker weighed in at 2.17 kilos and my bag was 4.29kilos. I took 1st place with second place having a bag of 2.35kilos. Sho, I'm still chuffed about it all.
Thanks to Roy for organising, Ol Bigmouth and Outdoors for sponsoring a good couple things, and all the other sponsors involved. I would also like to thank my sponsor, Outdoors365, for supporting me and for all the great products that they supply. I really would not be where I am without you guys. You guys have helped me tremendously. For more info on their products, visit http://www.outdoors365.co.za
All products I mentioned in this post are available at Ol Bigmouth and Outdoors in Durbanville.
I hope you guys enjoy my post. It will be my last report probably until I come back from Mauritius in October. Yes, there are bass there. I will see if I can get anything worthy of reporting on.
Thanks guys!
Cheers,
JM
Thought I would wait and do a report on most of the productive sessions I have had in these past few months. Where do I start...
Well, in Dec last year, I was doing some snooping around on google maps and found a nice secluded dam with some farm worker's houses surrounding it. I went with 2 little guys I fish with in the landrover to check it out. Got there and it was much bigger than expected. And we got permission. Awesome. So the next day we made a plan to take the boat out and launch it on this piece of water. The fishing was just on fire. Madness. Pitching into the reeds and hauling fish after fish outta there. We had a little bet going to see who could get the biggest bag and fish. The boys got scared when I picked up my Falcon Flippin' Stick. What fun. I had the biggest bag of the day so far.
The day was coming to an end when little Luke set the hook on a pig of 2.35kilos. He was chuffed hey. And on his new Falcon rod. What a pleasure.
I got my better fish on a 5" Peanutbutter Jelly Trick Stick.
A couple weeks later, my girlfriend had planned an outing far far away, in some mystical land I went with her family and of course, the rods went with. The first day I managed a dink smallie in the first 15 mins of fishing. And that was that. The sun went down all too quickly. The following day, my girlfriend and I were up early and drove down the the waterside. Set up and I hooked a canoe up to the back of my kickboat, just dragging her around. I must've caught close to 20 fish that day. And decent spotties, smallies and largies hey! They just loved what I threw at them!
The first good fish tried to swallow the BBB Kriet Tail Lizard I pitched into his personal space. Chomped.
Soon, I ran out of lizards and switched to BBB Real Deal Craws. Oh did they love that! Some small, fat fish came out too...
I even managed to fire up some fish on a SPRO Little John DD70 crank, just bouncing it along the rock bottom.
The first day was spectacular. The second, slowed down a bit. Many dinks but my girlfriend managed to hook a fish on a BBB Squirrel Tail fished weightless.
It was an amazing weekend away, and it ended too soon. I'll be back some day.
I have fished a few times after that but with no decent fish, until the KBT.
The KBT was held at Provost on Saturday and I drove through to Stanford to see my grandparents for one last time before I fly to Mauritius. Went to bed early, got up at 4, left at 4:30(Thanks mom). And had to meet at the peregrine farmstall at 5AM. It was cold and raining. Not too pleasant but I can deal with it.
We were off to the dam after registration and the rain and wind eased up. That helped. I was the first on the water if I can recall and was amped, as usual. I had a feeling that my little Jewel Swim jig would do me some good on the day. Everyone began kicking to their desired spots while I kicked away to mine, throwing the swim jig paired with a BBB Fighting Frog just to cover some water an find some fish. My first fish I hooked into...I thought was a carp. It just didn't budge. These provost fish are strong hey. I had to control my excitement and get back to work after I had landed my kicker. Good start to the day - CHECK!
I continued throwing the swim jig around the grass and lilies and picked up many more fish until I had a good 3-fish bag. I tried finding fish to cull mine but it was just not possible. Plenty dinks. I caught many more fish pitching a Fighting Frog and pitching a BBB HD Real Deal Craw on my lighter setup. It's pretty nerve-wracking trying to fish with the pressure that someone might just have bigger fish than you.
I fished as many spots that I thought were productive, as possible but the dam was packed. I came in at 12 and cleaned everything up for my little session after the comp. Re-tied and everything. I just didn't know where to fish anymore as well. There was nowhere to go!
1PM finally came and I patiently waited for everyone to weigh their bag until it was my turn. My kicker weighed in at 2.17 kilos and my bag was 4.29kilos. I took 1st place with second place having a bag of 2.35kilos. Sho, I'm still chuffed about it all.
Thanks to Roy for organising, Ol Bigmouth and Outdoors for sponsoring a good couple things, and all the other sponsors involved. I would also like to thank my sponsor, Outdoors365, for supporting me and for all the great products that they supply. I really would not be where I am without you guys. You guys have helped me tremendously. For more info on their products, visit http://www.outdoors365.co.za
All products I mentioned in this post are available at Ol Bigmouth and Outdoors in Durbanville.
I hope you guys enjoy my post. It will be my last report probably until I come back from Mauritius in October. Yes, there are bass there. I will see if I can get anything worthy of reporting on.
Thanks guys!
Cheers,
JM
