Nottingham Road trout success

Trout

As we prepare for yet another cold spell in KZN, reports of good fishing have come through regularly with the entire Nottingham Road area fishing extremely well. Get out the waders, jackets and tackle and head up to get in on the action. Reports suggest that the more productive flies have been Hamill’s Killers, Red Setters and Mrs. Simpsons. Some very nice fish have also been caught in the Underberg area with most anglers having luck with the sinking or intermediate lines, darker olive patterns with a flash of red or orange. Many of the fish being landed are brightly coloured cock fish and, although not the strongest of fighters at this time of the year, are still fun coming up from the deep.

Bass

A very slow week for the bass anglers, with the cold weather pushing through and a drop in temperature made for slow and in some places, uncomfortable fishing. Unfortunately when the conditions get tough, many anglers stay off the water and wait for conditions to improve. What we need to remember is that the fish still need to stay alive, meaning that if we can locate the fish and put something that it wants to eat in front of it, it must eat. It is often a much slower style of fishing and the angler often needs to make repeated casts into the same areas, but the rewards can be pleasing. Anglers fished Inanda at all their favourite spots over the weekend and most failed miserably. Once they moved off into deeper water and began fishing with jigs & Senkos etc., they started catching better and more fish. Albert Falls saw some good fish in the sticks and surprisingly at the PMB Bass Masters shoreline. After searching the entire day, a team decided to stop off at the bank to try out some new lures before heading home and managed to boat three quick fish over 2kg. This was done by fishing top water lures close to the banks on the steeper drop-offs. This style of fishing is slow, but effective on cliffs and steeper ledges.

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