A friend of mine, Roelof, my cousin, Louis, and myself decided to take on Cilliers at the Vaal Dam on Sunday 13 May 2012. We overslept a bit as Roelof and I attended our annual club prize-giving the previous night and only got in bed around 2:00am.
We left Vereeniging around 8:00am and arrived about 40 minutes later. The spot we were aiming for is called Perdekamp, but it was already occupied by some club. We decided to head to a spot a bit left of Perdekamp.
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| We sat by the black arrow with Deneysville to the North. |
It didn't take Roelof long to land the carp below using a combination(combo) of Boogeyman, Yellow Activator and one or two other flavours I still don't remember, lol!!!
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| 2.5kg Mirror Carp |
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| 2.3kg Full Scale (Common) Carp |
For the rest of the day day things went smaller until eventually we stopped getting any bites. Around 14:00 there was some dark cloud building up south of us and I suspect the change in air pressure had an effect on the catches. We started packing up as I still had to make it to Pretoria.
All in all, we had a very nice Autumn day at the water. My Cousin got one fish, small grasscarp, Roelof had around 6 or 7 fish including carp, mudfish, yellowfish and grasscarp. I caught 1 carp, 1 mudfish, one yellowfish and 1 grasscarp. Not bad for someone we got to the water a bit late and who haven't fished for 3 months. Had some trouble with getting my casting sorted as it takes a while to get back in the groove. Last few casts were good and it felt great to get to the water again.
Flavours that made a difference on the day was: Boogeyman(Duiwelsdrek base), Vaaldam and TCP, Yellow Activator(Garlic and Almond). The bank was very rocky and we did get stuck a few times. Holding the line tight and just keeping the pressure resulted in the trace getting released from the obstacles so we didn't leave lots of hooks and lines in the water, but patience was key.
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