Smallies @ Clanwilliam

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allrounder

Member
Hey Guys

I'm going to Clanwilliam this weekend and need some advice on the fishing there. I have never fished there and I really want to catch my first smallmouth.:wfish

What lures do I need and which sections of the dam do I target?

Any info will help!

:thankie
 
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vince the prince

New member
I would go with medium divers and lipless cranks Also plastics, flukes and lizzards - weightless and texas rigged.

lets see what the others say...
 
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DJP

Sealiner
Normally I would say go right up the dam to were the river starts, but I reckon there is probably some snow on the mountains which will drop the rivers water temp. The smallies will be sitting on the drop-offs in pre-spawn mode so you can always use a fish finder to till you find there staging depth, try suspending stickbaits for these fish. Chartreuse and Watermelon soft plastics on mojo rig fished slowly has always worked. Use cranks to get the fish, once you've found them slow down the presentation and use soft baits. My 2 zim dollars
 
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allrounder

Member
I'm going with a friend so do not know if we are going on a boat.

Thanks for all the help so far!

The SA record was caught on a Rapala DT 10 in 9 foot of water.

I just don't know what colors to use. Some people say white and others say I should use red and orange and natural colors.
 
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vince the prince

New member
I would say, through yellows/oranges/light browns/silver cranks...

The yellowfish in clanwilliam is obviously a food source for the bass.....
 
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Blanky

Senior Member
Fished the winter classic a little while ago and most fish came out on Red, white, orange lures. You gotta throw a red/black spinnerbait if you got! Deadly!!!
 
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nomad

New member
allrounder wrote:
Hey Guys

I'm going to Clanwilliam this weekend and need some advice on the fishing there. I have never fished there and I really want to catch my first smallmouth.:wfish

What lures do I need and which sections of the dam do I target?

Any info will help!

:thankie
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greeting allrounder ,

my advice is ,use thin line , and depending on the season fish the banks that get the sun earlier than the normal banks

fish rondegat , bay of plenty , greenhouse , skeletascove , i as a rule try to fish very light there ,the water are super clear , go with green pumkin , watermelonseed [with red flakes ] Cranks , you can gooi Babybass , reds ,golds , orange , remember notting to big [fish slow ]  keep in mind thats its a fairly large body of water and gunning up to the river is a completely unnessery  [most of the time ] theres only a few fish in the river and in a tournament they gets caught fast . A rule of thumb that i use in my tactics is to slow down your retreival and size down your baits , WHEN ARE YOU COMMING DOWN HERE BRU ? time of the year ? maybe theres a bit of space for an extra oke on our boat!

tight lines hopes this puts you in a beter direction !!
 
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allrounder

Member
I got my first smallmouth!!!!

we managed to get 10 fish in the boat. Got all of them on white cranks in 6 to 10 foot of water. The biggest one was 1.85kg that we got at 18:30 the last fish of the day.

Thanks for all the info and help.
 

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A

allrounder

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some of the other guys got some fish on junebug stretch 40's. I tried white spinnerbaits, red orange and yellow cranks and some junebug plastics. Lost a nice fish on a green and orange crank but white with orange and red worked best.

Thanks for all the info!!!
 
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