Winter Fishing Spots

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SmokingToe

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Hey guys,

What would probably be the best winter venue close to gauteng? Some friends and I want to better our personal best and we rate winter would be the best time to do this..
 
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SmokingToe

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LGF your answer is always the same :) I just cant quite yet justify the money it costs to go there. We go with a group of friends and usually get the total outing to just under R100 per person petrol for boat and getting there included. It would be well over double that at Bass Lake. While i would really love to do it, I just cant right now :)
 
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Little Green Fish

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SmokingToe wrote:
LGF your answer is always the same :) I just cant quite yet justify the money it costs to go there. We go with a group of friends and usually get the total outing to just under R100 per person petrol for boat and getting there included. It would be well over double that at Bass Lake. While i would really love to do it, I just cant right now :)
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vvidevb Ok so how many times do you go out, in say a month?

If more than twice, rather combine two R100 trips into one bass-lake trip, tell me, JohanVc or Basslover when and we'll join to show you how to make that piece of H2O give you four trips worth of fishing in one.......:spite only problem is that'll always wanna return and only fish there......:?
 
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r2d2c3po

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I'm also keen on going to bass lake during the next few weeks. I was there at the beginning of the month, but did not take any rod with. The water is crystal clear, and I could see the 1kg bass hanging around the edges.
 
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SmokingToe

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Lol.. hopefully you can catch them aswell. Last time that we could actually SEE the bass swimming around we couldn't get them to take anything... they wouldn't even swim up to inspect the lure. No reaction other than swimming away sometimes..

Was at a venue other than bass lake obviously.
 
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SmokingToe

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I think if the winter fishing is good we'll organise... but someone experienced will have 2 come with us... Will make the experience ALOT more enjoyable :)
 
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Little Green Fish

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Winter fishing @ Bass-Lake? Will see if I can get the thread of last winters 3 day trip, it was really very very %$#^&%*()  cold, BUT the fish we caught made it all worth while.

Ok so I too NEED to go there, but working the Fifa thingy, so I can only go after the 15th of July, this could give some guys some time to get the currency together to join in on the trip.
 
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SmokingToe

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Hmm... sounds very good :) Me and the friends would be happy with a large number of fish and a new PB :) How many fish do you rate you caught on average per day... Tinkers included... Our last and most successful trip yielded 19 fish between 4 of us over a 11 hour period. And we only lost around 5 fish. If it's better than that, size aside, it will be worth it :)
 
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Little Green Fish

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Normally by 10 in the morning you've lost count as it then doesn't matter how many you've caught, because it then becomes like work, it's then that you actually start wishing the smaller ones would leave your lure the %$#@ alone so that you can get the big ones to ram the lure, and if can see a big one, you can catch that big one, NO BULL, there's a rather large flat to the far left of the venue, roughly about the size of a townhouse yard about 20cm - 100cm deep, if they (and they quite frequently do) patrol this flat they're hooked, if you throw the right lure at them that is..... will take some with just need to get the final mold done before then. Nice thing about this is that I've taken my ducky with and didn't even take it off the bakkie (not that trip though as we spend 3days and 2nights there) but on one day trips, I take it with but hardly ever use it, it then only becomes a just in case matter....

Make no mistake, that piece of water used to be very frustrating and @ very few times can still be, but in overall, there's just nothing like it.

Read some of the reports in the freshwater report section with the heading Bass-lake, and you'll see exactly what I'm saying.
 
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Little Green Fish

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Okay, didn't answer your question exactly but will try to be more specific, on a good day you can get around 70 odd fish per person, with 3 to 5 weighing over the 2,6kg mark added, on a not so good day, perhaps around 40 per person with 2 to 3 weighing over the 2kg mark, and on a really very very bad, very bad day you could end up with around 15 odd fish per person and perhaps 1 over the 2 kg's, but just 1 over the 2kg's mark rarely happen as if you get 1 you're bound to get more.

I've had 3 busses fighting the 4th one that grabbed my lure, slamming and bumping each other against the rockface just below the surface, had I been able to holds 4 rods effectively in my hands I could've caught all 4, but that might have been considered GREEDY, hence the Good LORD only gave me 2 arms and 2 hands::S.
 
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100% African

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Damn.... It's only because of basslake that I wish I lived in jhb!!! When I went up to fish it, it was closed for the spawn... :(
 
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Little Green Fish

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Yeah the closing for spawn (around 1st of Aug to 1st of Oct, I think) and the diving yuppy's on weekends is the only real downside to that venue, money wise? I've paid more, much closer to home several times for much less fish and size, so money, is no downside, really!!!!
 
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