VAALDAM BABER

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bekkerian

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ok ive got acces to a nice piece of water on the vaal. its right opisite that island that belongs to RAU. ive been there in mmm September(not so sure) took a cruise arount that island and there where babers all over the show. right ON the banks... might have been spawning...

anyway...i asume that they will be hanging arount there anyway even when they are not spawning... if anybody knows that piece of water, and has fished there before please give me a shout...i want to go KLOP for the misses there...any other lures that would work well? maybe a salmo hornet nr 4 Ryan?

i will attach a pic of the island, the red line is where they were "spawning"
 

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bekkerian

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ok crank it will be...

tell me Ryan, or anyone for that matter, with my salmo hornet nr 4, how fast do i need to retreive...

if this rain will let me, i hope to go get me a wiskar on saterday...but not in the Vaaldam tho...
 
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Ryan

Sealiner
Fairly slowly - try and look for barbel moving or turning in the shallows - try and move the lure through the action.
The cranks must bump along the bottom
 
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DWB

Sealiner
Ryan is on the porcelain pony so he asked me to reply. LOL

it is said that the lip should bounce along the bottom, but i have had strikes on fairly slow retieves when casting a meter or two behind the fish turning.

What colour hornet you using?

PS!!!!!!!!!! REPLACE THE HOOKS WITH SOMETHING STRONGER!!!!!!
THE STD HOOKS ARE PATHETIC
 
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Ryan

Sealiner
Deon has yet to catch a Mantu on a crank - smaller cranks trebles bigger cranks Singles (just make sure they are strong)
 
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DWB

Sealiner
On my small cranks trebbles, i would've had 2 mantus already if my hooks didn't fail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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catfanatic

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riaan

buddy the island inquestion where abouts is it and how do i get there
ever since i can remeber i have been insearch of a place that will assure me a fun filled day, my patience is wearing thin, i do more waiting than catching and that which i do is relativly small .........help

 

 
 
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bekkerian

Senior Member
hey CF...jeez all i can say is googleEarth it. i drive from Heidelberg to vaaldam, im fairly new to GP, so im just gonna lie to you... but when you look at the picture directly to the right of the island...thats where we launch...but i believe there is a million places you can launch a boat... hope you come right.
 
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catfanatic

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shot bud

ok so you need to access it by boat right

what was the name of the place that you launched from

i dont have a boat, i am hopeing that i will catch from the nearest point to it
what do you recon
 
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bekkerian

Senior Member
im not the right person te be answering your Q's....ive been there twice. and have seen the barbel spawn, but that was all...vaaldam is BIG and i think those mammas must be parolling the whole dam...

all i can say is, good luck and i hope someone here can give you a better answer...
 
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