Fun With A Few Small Bass

There’ve been a lot of pregnancy posts of late, which is I suppose as it should be. That said I can’t possibly let the fishing slide so, on Sunday, I headed down to Inanda Dam with Baha Fly Fishing, the DFT, and some mates.

I picked up Nick and we headed down to Inanda Dam for a 6am start. Many of you may remember our previous fail when we arrived at 5am only to discover that the gates only opened at 6. Well this time we arrived at 6am only to find out that the gates had been open since 5. Can they please make up their minds?!

None the less we quickly kitted up and were soon joined by Gavin. The three of us then paddled out and began targeting the structure around the edge of the dam for those pesky little bass.

As is the norm for bass I started by fishing the surface . On my second cast I missed a small fish. A few cast later I missed another. Since they looked to be small I downsized to a small popper and immediately got into a few small bass.

On a whole the day was great fun. I landed 24 small bass and sadly lost 1 big boy. Nick and Gavin got 3 or 4 fish each, and Nick’s brother managed a couple from the bank on conventional bass tackle.

We may not have hooked into anything big, but we had an awesome morning none the less.