Witbank C4C 25 July 09

[Mr Attie]

So we decided to sleep over the friday night just to avoid the rush in the morning of getting te boat in the water... So we took of on Saturday morning and headed to the first bridge where we caught our first keeper. Not very big but it was there... Fished the whole bridge where we got alot of bites but no takers. So we thought we will leave the spot and return later...

We headed up towards the dam to the right in the grass and in half an hours time we managed 14 keeper sized fish, so we kept only the biggest 5 of which only 4 of them reached the 300mm mark... The spot died down and we moved to the gras to the left of the pumpstation. We knew we only had to cath one big fish to get the bag a bit heavier... So we came across 3 grass islands in 8ft of water and my partner shook the whole boat with his strike and i knew here was the fish we were looking for... So it was not to be as the fish came of next to the boat...

The time was up and we headed back to weigh in a bag of 1.7kgs... All the fish were caught on june bug flukes in the river section and the other on watermelon seed mojo rigged flukes in the dam section...

So it turned out to be a great days fishing after all...

 

[JasonG]

Here’s my report:
We left on Friday afternoon and camped there. Had one hell of a night thanks to “fritz”. Got up Saturday, peeked out the tent and saw all the cars queuing for the launch. Very cool. So we got up, sorted everything and launched the boat. Does anyone know the temp at this stage? Took the cover off the boat, and after about 15 mins there was frost all over it!

So I expected the fishing to be really cuck... Thought 2-3 keepers was going to win the day, So thats what our plan was, focusing on catching 2-3 500g fish....

I have a new partner whose just got into the whole bass scene. Was his first time fishing a big Dam, and first time on a bass boat. All the boats wized off, and we couldn’t see bugger all, so we just went around the corner.
We were fishing a jetty in around 3ft water. About our 10th cast my partner had a bite, which he didn’t know, he thought it was weeds, and ended up loosing the fish due to no strike. Ten minutes later I hooked a +-1kg. Laded him with absolute happiness. Ten minutes Later i had another bite, and landed a nice 1.6kg. so of stratery of just getting the 2-3 500g Fish was already achieved by like 7:30am... so were we lank happy! Its my second time fishing the dam, so had no idea were to go... we just drove and stopped Over where ever it looked good.

By 3pm we had 4 wish weighed in, and were just focusing on catching our last keeper to know We were going to do well... we tried so hard to get this last fish... eventually at 3:45 we went back To weigh in, and had one or two last casts to the stump where we caught the other fish, hopeing
For our last fish.... At 3:55, i landed my fluke next the LAST stump, and i here my partner strike into a fish, and not being sure of his experience in his knowing if its a bass or not, i keep my cool, but his line bobs left and right in the water showing its a fish... We were SO SO chuffed, after about 8 seconds the fish comes off.... our faces went the length of the boats.... So he quickly gooi’s there again, and bang on.... this time 2-3 seconds later it comes off again.... sheer happiness to sheer depression in
3 seconds flat... so he told me to quickly have a gooi there, pitched my fluke there, and bang, what a solid Hit, reel the fish in as fast as i can, lift the fish out the water and straight into the live well without even Removing the hook. And flew the 50 meter back to the weigh in, making it back in time 1-2 mins Before close off.....

We finished off 4th biggest bag, and received R1200. Dont think i’ve ever been more exited... my partner is now a crazy Bass bitten fisherman too....

 

[Hinetsa]

Hi Guys

What a cold day - we got our fish on black spinnerbaits with black blades in 15 to 20 ft of water. Weight in 2.69 and got 3rd

 

Thanks to HennieS and Johanvc for their advise.

 

[Ryan]

Well done gents

 

[Little Green Fish]

Well done there guys, one day when I'm all grown up and have a boat of me own, I too will happily try out a C4C...... until then I'll just drewll over your reports....

 

[scuba]

our morning did not start well with the bakkie giving us @#$%. we eventually got someone to put the boat in the water for us...

we headed straight to the main dam fishing the trees at the municipal launch where we managed our first keeper.

we then moved to the nature reserve side opposite the yacht club (goose gully) where we got another 3 good keepers. the first 4 fish were caught on a mojo rig watermelon candy junior fluke. we then found some nice offshore structure where we got our last keeper again on the mojo rig...

we put together a 5 fish bag weighing in at 4.69kg...

the morning started off very cold but warmed up fairly quick compared to the vaal...

 

[madporra]

scuba wrote:

our morning did not start well with the bakkie giving us @#$%. we eventually got someone to put the boat in the water for us...

we headed straight to the main dam fishing the trees at the municipal launch where we managed our first keeper.

we then moved to the nature reserve side opposite the yacht club (goose gully) where we got another 3 good keepers. the first 4 fish were caught on a mojo rig watermelon candy junior fluke. we then found some nice offshore structure where we got our last keeper again on the mojo rig...

we put together a 5 fish bag weighing in at 4.69kg...

the morning started off very cold but warmed up fairly quick compared to the vaal...

we put together a 5 fish bag weighing in at 4.69kg...
and won the comp - well done!!

 

[Hinetsa]

Well done to the winners - a very good bag for such a bad day

 

[Johanvc]

Well done to Scuba for winning and Hinetsa for 3rd

Hinetsa: Not a problem. Always willing to help where I can.

Scuba: Winning the Vaal and then Witbank. Just shows that you don't need the fastest and biggest boat to win these comps

 

[JasonG]

Hey guys....
I'm a bit dissapointed with what happened at the C4C.
As i mentioned there has been a mess up with our scores. we 'apparently' only weighed in 1 fish at the end, when in fact weighed in 2!!! they gave us the weight of 280g. Therefore its impossible that they just made the mistake of saying 4 fish instead of 5, because 2 fish could not weigh in at 280g. (both fish were also checked to make sure they made length, and remeber it making +-280cm)

Spoke to hannes and he say's we only weighed in 1 fish.... so what can we do? its his word against ours. The only thing that can help, is if they accidentally mixed the scores cards up when jotting the weights down, someone would have an extra fish in their bag.
So if anyone knows of this, please PLEASE, your honesty would be much appreciated to help us resolve this issue.... as its the difference between 4th and 2nd place, which means alot to us as we trying to qualify for the champion of champions having already missed out on the first 3 comps!

Thanks!
Jason and Andrew (Team Bassop)

**dont want to get into debate about it, if anyone knows anything please let us know**