Vaal report: Brutus lives!

[Herman Jooste]

What a beast!!! Nice one Graham!!!! I can only dream of such a fish!

You are so right Grant. My PB came out of "desperation", the other 2 f/f had 50 and 20 each by lunch. I had 2 . At lunch I changed all my flies and fished a stream that I had been told was unproductive, First cast a 100mm yellow. Second cast one of around 200m.
Third cast against the reeds, my PB of around 3.5 kg's. After taking the pics single handed I had a smoke to try and calm cown the adrenelin.
Next cast to the the same reeds and my all time PB, 5.3 kg's of smallmouth,
P.S. Ferdie ended the day with 100 +, Drik with around 60 , and me? around 25. But only 2 of those fish counted. My 2 x PB,'s

[gkieser]

My Pb Yellow is 51cm, but i have no idea how much that would weigh though. Any idea?

[Herman Jooste]

My Pb Yellow is 51cm, but i have no idea how much that would weigh though. Any idea?

If your PB was in Winter I would guess around 3kg. It's very difficult to judge without a pic.
As you know our yellows ( like our SWAMBO's ) tend to put weight on in winter,

[Chris Shelton]

Graham, congratulations! That is a fish of a lifetime! On such light tackle too.....seriously well done!

[Babyson]

First cast a 100mm yellow. Second cast one of around 200m.

Now thats a monster, hehe No seriously, 5.3kg is a monster!! Well done to you and Graham, definitely think I need to be fishing with you guys!

[Byron]

My Pb Yellow is 51cm, but i have no idea how much that would weigh though. Any idea?

I'm not sure if there is a formula for calculating weight from length. Some short yellows have been really heavy and damn wide. Be interesting to see if anyone knows more. Their shape seems to vary quite a bit.

[Scythe]

Next cast to the the same reeds and my all time PB, 5.3 kg's of smallmouth, P.S. Ferdie ended the day with 100 +, Drik with around 60 , and me? around 25. But only 2 of those fish counted. My 2 x PB,'s

Let's see a pic of that 5Kg fish. When was this, this past weekend ? Didn't know the fish were moving that well yet.

Oh wait, Dirk, then your Talking BothaVille and it was last year or the year before. And you could only get a 5Kg fish ? Eish !

Let's see a snap of that fish.

[Herman Jooste]

Here you go then.

[Herman Jooste]

oops, wrong pick, let me try again. The previous pick wqas from Elgro and only a 3.1 kg fish:

[Dieter]

Lovely slab of gold uncle Herman.. well done!