Renosterkop is awesome!
[align=center]Renosterkop 2010/02/07[/b][/align]
Last week end Ryan, Andries (my Flatmate) and I went fishing at Renosterkop. The aim of the day was to get Andries his First barbel. Conditions where awesome, sun was shining almost no wind and the water was clean so you could see the bottom. The day started off with a couple of hitches, first we didn’t know the bass masters where having a comp. These guys are bit unfriendly and proved it! On the way to our first spot a guy came slowly past us and showed Ryan that he wants to cut in front of him. Just, so that we can go through his wake and not the other way around.
Giving all the trouble Renosterkop was kind to us. Andries and Ryan started off buddy casting for barbel and Andries hooked into his first ever barbel on basically the first tree. The barbel made good account of itself and gave Andries the best freshwater fight he has ever had, as any 8kg barbel would do. Ryan proved again he is a master fisherman. He has a line in the water but his aim is always to set you up. I was again amazed at how accurately he can cast.
The barbel bite went down and we started looking for bass. Two bass of about 1.5kg fell victim, one on a rapala clacken rap and the other on a light mojo fluke and moved onto dwarf species. Andries being new to the artlure seen didn’t believe we actually aim for the small species and thought we were yanking his chain saying we use size 32 hooks.
Small species landed included river Sardine, Dwarf kurper, Gilemien( Spelling), blue kurper and Vlei kurper. All under one tree!
Moving to the Island at about lunch was the highlight of the day with sight fishing for kurper, bass, barbel and carp. I wasted time trying to catch a carp on a loodkoppie with a dip rod and missed probably about 20 fish. Ryan patiently trying to educate me in the fine art of loodkoppie dipping, he never lost patience even though I messed up every time. He decided to lead by example and landed a fine carp in the next 2 minutes by showing me the correct technique. Nothing wrong with the method, operator error was to blame.
In passing a barbel I dipped for it and set the hook. It immediately went for cover which was not hard to find on the island. Andries being the sport that he is decided to assist me by untangling the 10lb line in shoulder deep water. Not knowing that I had hooked a barbel and being under the impression that it is a much less scary carp. He jumped in and started untangling….
The barbel came closer and Andries became more pre-occupied with the untangling until he was completely involved with line in front of his nose and less aware of the barbel 30cm from the knot he was untying. The inevitable happed and Andries was looking a seriously ugly 5kg barbel in the eye an ugly face if you expected a nice soft carp. I lost the barbel and Andries became the third man ever to walk on water, leaving Ryan and myself rolling on the boat. He is an awesome sport and a friend like that is hard to find. Thanx bud!!!
After picking our selves up, this took a couple of minutes. Ryan showed us how effective Salmo hornet 2 sinking is! Even carp actively went for the lure, Amazing. He lost the lure when a mother of a barbel took off with it and snapped his line like it was cotton candy. Lost lure R60, missing length of line 10c, smiles on faces priceless.
Ryan thanks again for an awesome day and I hope I can make use of your services again, what you are doing next weekendJ.
This is what a hard days fishing does for little boyz......
[align=center]Renosterkop 2010/02/07[/b][/align]
Last week end Ryan, Andries (my Flatmate) and I went fishing at Renosterkop. The aim of the day was to get Andries his First barbel. Conditions where awesome, sun was shining almost no wind and the water was clean so you could see the bottom. The day started off with a couple of hitches, first we didn’t know the bass masters where having a comp. These guys are bit unfriendly and proved it! On the way to our first spot a guy came slowly past us and showed Ryan that he wants to cut in front of him. Just, so that we can go through his wake and not the other way around.
Giving all the trouble Renosterkop was kind to us. Andries and Ryan started off buddy casting for barbel and Andries hooked into his first ever barbel on basically the first tree. The barbel made good account of itself and gave Andries the best freshwater fight he has ever had, as any 8kg barbel would do. Ryan proved again he is a master fisherman. He has a line in the water but his aim is always to set you up. I was again amazed at how accurately he can cast.
The barbel bite went down and we started looking for bass. Two bass of about 1.5kg fell victim, one on a rapala clacken rap and the other on a light mojo fluke and moved onto dwarf species. Andries being new to the artlure seen didn’t believe we actually aim for the small species and thought we were yanking his chain saying we use size 32 hooks.
Small species landed included river Sardine, Dwarf kurper, Gilemien( Spelling), blue kurper and Vlei kurper. All under one tree!
Moving to the Island at about lunch was the highlight of the day with sight fishing for kurper, bass, barbel and carp. I wasted time trying to catch a carp on a loodkoppie with a dip rod and missed probably about 20 fish. Ryan patiently trying to educate me in the fine art of loodkoppie dipping, he never lost patience even though I messed up every time. He decided to lead by example and landed a fine carp in the next 2 minutes by showing me the correct technique. Nothing wrong with the method, operator error was to blame.
In passing a barbel I dipped for it and set the hook. It immediately went for cover which was not hard to find on the island. Andries being the sport that he is decided to assist me by untangling the 10lb line in shoulder deep water. Not knowing that I had hooked a barbel and being under the impression that it is a much less scary carp. He jumped in and started untangling….
The barbel came closer and Andries became more pre-occupied with the untangling until he was completely involved with line in front of his nose and less aware of the barbel 30cm from the knot he was untying. The inevitable happed and Andries was looking a seriously ugly 5kg barbel in the eye an ugly face if you expected a nice soft carp. I lost the barbel and Andries became the third man ever to walk on water, leaving Ryan and myself rolling on the boat. He is an awesome sport and a friend like that is hard to find. Thanx bud!!!
After picking our selves up, this took a couple of minutes. Ryan showed us how effective Salmo hornet 2 sinking is! Even carp actively went for the lure, Amazing. He lost the lure when a mother of a barbel took off with it and snapped his line like it was cotton candy. Lost lure R60, missing length of line 10c, smiles on faces priceless.
Ryan thanks again for an awesome day and I hope I can make use of your services again, what you are doing next weekendJ.
This is what a hard days fishing does for little boyz......
