I've done a fair bit of fishing for, also amateur research on, these wonderful fish, as they are indigenous to the area around my little farm on the Middleveld.
Please PM me your whereabouts so hopefully I can pass on a few tips for the seasons and local hatches.
The trouble is as I'm sure you're aware, this area is the prime target of noveau riche criminals. On a serious eco note I have a handful of influential local farmers on-side to try and maintain the area as a pristine 'grasslands/wetlands' as the local tourist bureau advertise it - but the latter never deliver and are part of the problem! There are some real rubbishes in the area intent on the quick and underhand deal, no care/ethics/responsibility brigade who are honing in on destroying the wetland for the sake of yet another badly-place golf estate with hundreds of dwellings crammed on-site and no infrastructure. These guys will have run a country mile before people wake up to their scummy behaviour and realise that they're all B'shotters of note and of the 'I'm alright, stuff you all' ilk. When they claim to condone their unadulterated greed in terms of 'Eco estates with BEE ratings' (i.e. a couple of bribable locals on-side who don't distribute any of their ill-gotten earnings to any of their worthy honest folk) I really want to go outside and induce a vomit! Hypocritical bottom-dwelling pond-life!
Above from the heart!
Having seen a little 10-year old girl catch her first ever fish today after persevering for hours; the smile on her face made up for all my pent-up frustration against all the trash element trying to destroy our borderline fishing and habitat areas in Southern Africa purely for personal short-term gain.
Sorry, Matuka, I digress! Please PM me and I'll send you some studied info from my ol' diaries! I feel a lot better having got that lot off my ample chest!
Cheers, Chris W
P.S. Maybe we could also retail 'Flytalk Valium' for some of us who tend to get excitable over serious issues?
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