Decided to take a days leave and head out to Rhenosterkop for a mornings fishing on Friday. We left Joburg just after 04:00 and arrived at the gates just after 06:00.
We launched and headed to the island, decided to to try it as we had always given it a skip on our previous outings. About my 5th cast of the day I dropped my first fish, as I was messing around with the trolling motor!! A few casts later and no mistake this time, caught a healthy fish of about 1.4kgs. 10 Min later I got another smaller fish, also on the island. My dad's mate who was with us also managed to pick up two on the island of similar sizes to mine. Mine I caught on weighless Senkos, and the others were on Weightless Flukes. Just like that, the fishing turned off and we moved on to another spot, fishing was pretty slow, with not much happening, we decided to find some deeper water as it was getting ridiculously hot and assumed the fish had to have moved deep.
This move paid off and we managed to land another 4 fish all around 1.5kgs. We lost a couple of fish in the sticks, as we were fishing in quite thick cover and these fish are really healthy and strong fighters! We missed quite a few takes, and only have ourselves to blame for that. All in all a good day out, with 8 fish caught before lunch time, and a 5 fish limit of just over 7kgs.
This is really one of the nicest dams i've fished in a while, with clean water, extremely healthy, fat bass and fry all over the place. Looks like this dam has a healthy eco-system working, lets hope it stays this way.
Lures that worked were senkos, flukes and 10 inch monster worms, all in watermelon colour. We tried spinnerbaits, cranks and some brush hogs, but did not have success on these.
The day way a really enjoyable one, but came to an end at about 12:00 due to the ridiculous heat, can't wait to get back!
We launched and headed to the island, decided to to try it as we had always given it a skip on our previous outings. About my 5th cast of the day I dropped my first fish, as I was messing around with the trolling motor!! A few casts later and no mistake this time, caught a healthy fish of about 1.4kgs. 10 Min later I got another smaller fish, also on the island. My dad's mate who was with us also managed to pick up two on the island of similar sizes to mine. Mine I caught on weighless Senkos, and the others were on Weightless Flukes. Just like that, the fishing turned off and we moved on to another spot, fishing was pretty slow, with not much happening, we decided to find some deeper water as it was getting ridiculously hot and assumed the fish had to have moved deep.
This move paid off and we managed to land another 4 fish all around 1.5kgs. We lost a couple of fish in the sticks, as we were fishing in quite thick cover and these fish are really healthy and strong fighters! We missed quite a few takes, and only have ourselves to blame for that. All in all a good day out, with 8 fish caught before lunch time, and a 5 fish limit of just over 7kgs.
This is really one of the nicest dams i've fished in a while, with clean water, extremely healthy, fat bass and fry all over the place. Looks like this dam has a healthy eco-system working, lets hope it stays this way.
Lures that worked were senkos, flukes and 10 inch monster worms, all in watermelon colour. We tried spinnerbaits, cranks and some brush hogs, but did not have success on these.
The day way a really enjoyable one, but came to an end at about 12:00 due to the ridiculous heat, can't wait to get back!
