RossCo91 Posted July 22, 2014 Posted July 22, 2014 Here are two reports I put in a digital magazine that we get here, I thought you guys might enjoy hearing about fishing somewhere else in the world. This is in a very small dam ( perhaps a puddle from what you are used to ) Called Nagle.( -29.594670, 30.638357 ) I realize that my measurements are in KGs/Grams – but 1Kilo ( 1000G) is around 2.2 Pounds. So it was a cold Monday morning a public holiday my Friend Zane and I decided to take my newly purchased boat down to my favourite dam Nagle, we got there around 5:30 and launched not realising how cold it was, winter had definitely set in that morning. After trying some top water action by the slipway we did not have any luck so we shot around to the weir hoping for some better luck before the sun came up. Still not even a nibble until around 8:30 , by then we had warmed up a little. Fishing was very slow think I had picked up 3 fish by 10am, we then decided to go visit our crocodile and see if he was there ( he was ).We then started working the cliffs , We threw cranks, Texas rigs, Jigs, Even wacky set ups and we struggled to find many fish, I think by 12:15 I was on around 9 or 10 fish and Zane about 3, all very small. With the biggest around 600G. Then pulling my Texas rig down the cliffs I saw my line stop on sinking then watched it as it started going to the right, thought to myself ‘ Hang on a second ‘ Gave it a big strike and then it started swimming. Managed to wrap around the trolling motor, under the boat a few times, probably one of the best fights I had ever had from a fish. Every time I had it close to the boat with Zane hanging off the side with the net he started stripping my line again. I thought to myself ‘ This must be a new personal best’ we finally got in on the boat I sat down trying to get the hook out, my hands were shaking with the adrenaline, My boat partner said I screamed like a girl when we got it on the boat, I couldn’t argue. Got my scale out and to my surprise only weighed around 2.6kgs - 200g off my PB.I then put her in my live well as I wanted to see how she’d fit in, and just put a new bait on and cast in the same spot. I then watched my line sink and it hit the same shelf. So left it there was talking to Zane how my heart was still racing, and how sick it would be to catch two to snap a picture with a bus in each hand, I then looked towards my line again and it was moving, I thought it had just fallen a bit further but reeled in some slack and struck, I felt something was there didn’t think it was too big so started to bring it in, asked Zane to grab the net, and brought it to the surface and then we saw that it was even bigger than the last, but at the same time she was us and was off!Now having some experience from the last fight the trolling motor came out of the water first and I let her take line, was a brilliant fight kept getting her closer to the boat and she’d take off 20 metres again. But after a while we get half of her in the net (Only owned a small net ) and got it on the boat. Couldn’t believe the Size 3.70kg on the dot. Breaking my PB of 2.8kgs.Must say it was definitely one of my best days on the water. Not many fish but the fights from both of these were just incredible. Big thanks to Zane for the help. Very happy to have this on my record after just a started fishing the previous year. Our second trip - I had checked the weather all week as I knew a big cold front was about to hit and slowly I saw conditions for Saturday look better, so the next question I had was where to go, I have my first attempt of divisionals coming up in October at Midmar a dam that I had not yet fished, so even though it was cold I decided to make the trip that way. I had my friend Zane join me, the last time he had fished is when I caught my previous PB that was featured 2 issues back.We got to Midmar minutes before the gate opened and set off, not to cold I was pretty keen on attempting new waters.I headed to some spots I looked up before going to get in that early bite. That’s when I noticed the water temp 13degrees! Perhaps it may not sound cold to many of the fisherman that are outside of KZN but for a ‘coastal’ dam that was cold. We started on some tree’s which should of held fish - They didn’t. It was a pretty bleak start, not a fish to be seen or a bite to be had. We tried many spots and well – all those comments about Midmar being hard were true! Not wanting a blank for the day around 10:30 we started discussing going to another dam. We had Alberts, Nagle or Inanda on the cards. Alberts the condition would not be much easier and Inanda had Y-Bass although we knew there were some good fish being pulled out there we headed to my favourite Nagle. Not having been back since the last trip 2 months back I started on a few of my favourite spots but nothing. We had about 2 hours on the water before I had my first bite. Before even knowing how big it was I asked Zane to get the net, his reply was ‘ It’s not gonna be big enough for the net’ – Then she rised! What a beauty! She was hooked properly so I let her play the line for a while. After that first rise she wanted to just head for the depths, about a 5 – 10 minute battle she come up close enough to Net. I wasn’t sure if it was close to being my PB as the mouth was smaller, but put it on the scales it went 3.6 – up to 4.1 ( My heart racing ) But settled on 3.9KG Clearing my last PB by 200G.But what great fun, I only managed one other fish that day and one more to break me off. All in all a great day! 4 Quote
RossCo91 Posted July 22, 2014 Author Posted July 22, 2014 Sorry having trouble uploading all of the pictures due to size, but these two show all 3 fish spoken about 1 Quote
Super User F14A-B Posted July 22, 2014 Super User Posted July 22, 2014 Nice! Great pics and story! Quote
Super User Dwight Hottle Posted July 22, 2014 Super User Posted July 22, 2014 Congradulations on the new PB & great post. 1 Quote
Coherence Posted July 23, 2014 Posted July 23, 2014 Excellent write up and from the looks of it, an excellent day of fishing as well. Congrats! Quote
Super User buzzed bait Posted July 23, 2014 Super User Posted July 23, 2014 awesome pics, great write up! Quote
John G Posted December 10, 2014 Posted December 10, 2014 Nice looking fish! Do you have much Nile Crocodile activity where you fish? Quote
Vanbassin Posted January 9, 2015 Posted January 9, 2015 Nice man!! Not to far from me, never tried Nagle Dam before. Must give it a bash sometime! Thanks for the great story RossCo91!! Quote
Super User A-Jay Posted January 9, 2015 Super User Posted January 9, 2015 Nice write up. Congrats on the PB. A-Jay Quote
riverbasser13 Posted January 14, 2015 Posted January 14, 2015 Awesome! Those are some nice fish and that was an interesting read. Quote
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