Anglers blessed with many species to hook
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The dams and rivers are all producing fish with anglers blessed with a bunch of species available to them no matter where they live.
In general the bass fishing has been good. The summer fishing is getting closer … Midmar and Albert Falls have been the pick of the venues with Midmar being the lead singer in the band. There have been some amazing fish caught from this dam recently with both largemouth and smallmouth being landed.
Midmar has been fishing well on the offshore structure. This means focusing on your graphs/finders and getting your baits down to them. Dropshotting with smaller minnow imitations is a great way to fish these deeper areas.
Michael from KF-PMB has been fishing Midmar of late and has been getting some great fish on Kingfisher’s range of REACTION plastics … pop in and come chat to Michael to get the inside scoop
The carp fishing has been slow. There have been a lot of fronts moving through. These constant changes in pressure do not lend themselves to good fishing. The recent weather patterns have put the carp in a bit of a mood, so it has been tough to put good numbers into the net. The tilapia have been very active so there is always something to catch.
The stronger flavours have been the better scents to go with at the moment. The cooler water does not spread the flavour as much, so you will want a stronger scent like garlic or almond.
The stillwaters are fishing very well. The size of the fish have not been the same giants as in previous weeks but the fishing has been good.
Minnow imitation streamers have been the most successful flies mentioned across the different venues. Those fishing the smaller venues have seen better results with smaller patterns. The fronts coming through have slowed fishing down a bit and might need you to scale down to worm patterns and hand-twist retrieves.
The yellows (scaly / Natal Yellowfish) are also turning on very nicely – the Umkomaas is starting to fire, and some excellent fish have been reported on a range of flies – predominantly on nymphs, taddys and small jig buggers, but also some larger patterns like minnow and dragonfly patterns.
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