Hey guys, Thanks for your help the past week. The dam is simply the best i have seen in a long time. There are fish, lots, but getting them was the hard part.
We arrived at the dam at 06:05 and both rigged up, just before we put the boat in the water Mit just made a cast to check the action of his lure and got a bite, unfortunately the very enthusiastic bass was about half the size of the lure and couldn’t get the whole bait in his mouth.
We were on the water at 06:15 with high hopes because of the first cast of the day. It was cold and the dam was perfect. We tried everything. Top water, swallow divers, deep divers, plastics(Frogs, grubs, flukes and worms). By 10:15 we were just about done, the correct word would be g_tvol. The wind was blowing the whole day on and off and at that stage started picking up and it was blowing in the direction of the Bakkie, so we decided that we were going to drift until we get to the side and get out.
Do you know how you feel after 4 hours in a canoe without catching anything? Let me tell you it is pretty uncomfortable.
10:45 we were about 10 meters away from the side where we launched, both of us a little frustrated and reeling in a lot faster that we did a few hours ago and bam fish on, after a quick and enjoyable fight Mit lands his PB +-1.75kg (i estimated between 1.5 and 2kg’s as we did not have a scale), previously his PB was 500gr. And just like that there was no way you were going to get us off the water. Within 5 minutes of landing his fish i am on with a nice size, landed mine about 1kg( also estimated). I will try and post the pics and you can guess the weight.
After that it went quite again and we left the dam at about 12:00 as i had to be back in Nelspruit.
We arrived at the dam at 06:05 and both rigged up, just before we put the boat in the water Mit just made a cast to check the action of his lure and got a bite, unfortunately the very enthusiastic bass was about half the size of the lure and couldn’t get the whole bait in his mouth.
We were on the water at 06:15 with high hopes because of the first cast of the day. It was cold and the dam was perfect. We tried everything. Top water, swallow divers, deep divers, plastics(Frogs, grubs, flukes and worms). By 10:15 we were just about done, the correct word would be g_tvol. The wind was blowing the whole day on and off and at that stage started picking up and it was blowing in the direction of the Bakkie, so we decided that we were going to drift until we get to the side and get out.
Do you know how you feel after 4 hours in a canoe without catching anything? Let me tell you it is pretty uncomfortable.
10:45 we were about 10 meters away from the side where we launched, both of us a little frustrated and reeling in a lot faster that we did a few hours ago and bam fish on, after a quick and enjoyable fight Mit lands his PB +-1.75kg (i estimated between 1.5 and 2kg’s as we did not have a scale), previously his PB was 500gr. And just like that there was no way you were going to get us off the water. Within 5 minutes of landing his fish i am on with a nice size, landed mine about 1kg( also estimated). I will try and post the pics and you can guess the weight.
After that it went quite again and we left the dam at about 12:00 as i had to be back in Nelspruit.
