So on the 21st of March, a bunch of guys were invited to fish Rustfontein. I was fortunate enough to get an invite as well.
To be honest, my expectations weren't to high. The week before, a cold front had moved in, the air temp dropped by 5 degrees and add to that, 2-3 days of non stop drizzeling rain, fishing was gonna be tough to say the least...
We arrived at 6am and immediately got lines in the water. Even though the water was ice cold, at least the sun was shining and it promised to be a fairly pleasant day.
Unfortunately fishing was tough and it took me about 30mins to catch first fish of around 500gr. Through out the rest of the morning this trend continued with all the anglers working hard and only having small fish to show for their efforts.
Around 12:00 the temp at got up in to the high 20's. My tally was up to 8 fish, all under a kilo. Never the less, I decided to wade near some lilies and try my luck. I was rewarded with a nice fish of around 1.8kg.
As I walked back to my buddy to brag about the fish I had just released, a load cheer rose from a spot I had fished no more than 30mins ago...
The result, a very healthy fish of 3.2kg and needless to say, an extremely happy angler!
To be honest, my expectations weren't to high. The week before, a cold front had moved in, the air temp dropped by 5 degrees and add to that, 2-3 days of non stop drizzeling rain, fishing was gonna be tough to say the least...
We arrived at 6am and immediately got lines in the water. Even though the water was ice cold, at least the sun was shining and it promised to be a fairly pleasant day.
Unfortunately fishing was tough and it took me about 30mins to catch first fish of around 500gr. Through out the rest of the morning this trend continued with all the anglers working hard and only having small fish to show for their efforts.
Around 12:00 the temp at got up in to the high 20's. My tally was up to 8 fish, all under a kilo. Never the less, I decided to wade near some lilies and try my luck. I was rewarded with a nice fish of around 1.8kg.
As I walked back to my buddy to brag about the fish I had just released, a load cheer rose from a spot I had fished no more than 30mins ago...
The result, a very healthy fish of 3.2kg and needless to say, an extremely happy angler!
