WC Streams report back

[rols]

we had sb6 today and i must admit, the water is very low, we hav'nt fished the beat for about 2 months, therefore our surprise. Morne got 3 and I got 1......If you ask Morne , He'll say the fished hooked itself....and if you ask me....I'll say I was doing the 1001...100...STRIKE thing, oh lookee there...a, fish.
We can gladly say that we had no hassles on the beat, ITO weirdos. We did however have a lovely troop of hikers go by......damn sorry we let them go bye. One guy and three "10's"...I think they asked us how the fishing went.....I hope someone answered them, as a trout rose to my tongue, dragging downstream
Lekka day, cloudy and cool and temp at 8am was 18 degrees.
Cheers

[Morne]

.....If you ask Morne , He'll say the fished hooked itself....and if you ask me....I'll say I was doing the 1001...100...STRIKE thing, oh lookee there...a, fish.

Cheers

Dont forget, on a "borrowed fly, tied to a borrowed leader attached to a borrowed rod. That shouldn't count The fish though it was me.

[rols]

Dont forget, on a "borrowed fly, tied to a borrowed leader attached to a borrowed rod. That shouldn't count The fish though it was me.

oops, nearly forgot about that, but what a friggin nice fly that was, I tried to cut it off and stick it in my flybox, but old eagle eyes was watching

[gkieser]

Maddy and I fished Elandspad 4 yesterday. Met up with Rols, Morne and some others at the parking lot which was pretty cool, and then hiked up to the cave which was not as cool.

The fishing was good right from the start and the fish were their usual suicidal self up there. Most fish were caught on dry flies and the fish were not fussy at all - anything that landed near a fish was hit.

We think we got 70-80 fish but it was just impossible to count. Maddy would fish and catch a fish, then i would take over and i would catch a fish straight away, and so it went on. I cursed him a couple of times for not letting me have enough time to dry my fly properly, but in the end it didn't really matter.

Maddy got a nice fish at the head of a pool where he actually casted over a tree into the current, and somehow managed to land it under the tree - freekin impressive stuff!
Here's a shot of his fish:


I got a real beaut in a deep pool near the top of the beat. I cast out a Jig nymph/bugger thing and let the fly sink, and as it was sinking the line dinked and i took up the slack into a real slab! Had a nice battle with it for a minute or so and eventually netted this 18 inch beauty:



This fish was caught in the same pool that John Brink caught a 16 incher about a year ago so I wonder if it's possibly the same fish.

Here's one more pic of a fish that Maddy caught earlier in the day:


Shot Bra - Had a great day out there - we must do it again!

[nkula_nkula]

Nice report grant!

Thanks for sharing.... Beat 4 is certainly worth the effort. Although that walk in & out in summer is a real killer.

[rols]

very very nicely done Guys. Feel like a bit of a ham reporting on our day and that Morne only got 3 fish......silly boy I got1

[gkieser]

Ja but it is different up there - there are so many fish that i think they take anything going past. Really fun fishing! Maddy actually had two fish on at one stage but if I hadn't been stuffing around with my rod we could have netted both of them!

You guys should definitely go visit up there - it is well worth it!

[kyle-J]

Thanks for the advice Andre. Will have to visit the shop mentioned in the CPS newsletter...

Grant, sounds like you and Maddy had an awesome time. Anyone with experience on those upper beats willing to take a learner like me?

[Chris Shelton]

Nice fish you got there Grant...absolute bus! Yes, always plenty of fish up there. Fishing two guys breaks the rythme a bit. On a day like Maddy and Grant had, a solitary angler will release more than a 100 fish.

[bossi]

Nice, very very nice!!!!

I love EP4!!!!!!!

Just a pity you need a helicopter to get there!!!