Bass Digest May 2014 Issue 7 | Page 26

Page 1 March 2014 Report Venue: Inanda Dam Date: 22 - 23 March 2014 WINNERS WORDS by Kobus Oosthuizen Total fish: 8 Total Weight: 7.83 Kg Average weight: 0.98 Kg Fishing Conditions: We decided to have a little pre-fishing session on Thursday and Friday. Thursday afternoon we had overcast skies with a slight breeze. Perfect topwater conditions, turned out not to be. We struggled to get keeper fish, and that after hearing about a 9kg and a 12kg bag the weeks leading up to our Club Comp. Are we doing something wrong? Friday Morning turned out to look the same as Thursday, overcast and windy. By Friday afternoon the sun started showing itself behind the cloud cover. We managed to get a couple of keepers off some deeper weeds we located in one of the bays. After 1 1/2 days of fishing we still basically had nothing, So Saterday morning we decided to head towards the bay were we got some keeper fish the day before. Hendri managed to get 3 fish in the first hour fishing a Horny Toad. I still had nothing on the boat. At about 11:00 we decided that our area had no more keepers in it, as we were only getting undersize fish. We made a move back to some bays showed to us by Martin de Kok and Garth Liefeldt, a big thanks to both of you, we only managed some small fish out of these areas on Friday, punching Yamamoto Flapping Hogs and Strike King Rodents using big weights (1 1/4 oz), but with the sun now beating down the bigger fish moved in we both had a limit by 12:30. We manage to cull a couple of fish during the day. Hendri manage to hook into a real kicker (2.86kg) just after 16:00. Back at the weight-in there were some good bags being weight, Hendri (6.52kg), Pierreā€™s friend Roy (5.52kg), John C (4.92kg), with me trailing somewhere behind. Not feeling very happy with Back to the Top