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General Angling Topics => Micro fishing => Topic started by: kaptein delarey on September 06, 2013, 03:42:50 PM
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Hi
The last time I checked. about 2 weeks back, none of the micro species have 'woken up' yet from their winter lethargicness ...
Going out this weekend to see if I can catch a few. Will also be trying out my new 'el cheapo' telescopic pole I got from a China shop - it should work a charm for dipping for micros. Will target mosquito fish, vlei kurper and dwarf kurper. If all else fails I'll try for some bigger bass and barbel.
Will let you all know how it went.
Cheers
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Awesome Kaptein! Had a look last week and they still werent too keen on eating, would love to get some vlei kurper soon though, keep us posted and please take pics :-)
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So, I dipped around for about an hour on Saturday only to catch one dwarf kurper. This dam is usually swarming with micro species like vlei kurper, dwarf kurper and mosquito fish.
Here's the lekker fat dwarf I caught. Rigged a small white Sada ball lure on an Owner tanago hook.
(http://i1204.photobucket.com/albums/bb406/kapteindelarey/da4809a2-4700-45a2-bd50-9b56b28bf4e2_zps0d07116e.jpg)
(http://i1204.photobucket.com/albums/bb406/kapteindelarey/40bb6b73-fd78-4090-bc18-1876db73deb1_zpsc6d051c6.jpg)
Very pretty coloured fish
(http://i1204.photobucket.com/albums/bb406/kapteindelarey/942701cd-343a-4f3d-9849-292e65ba3dda_zpsfba5cdea.jpg)
Used my new & cheap (R50.00) Chinese copy of a Japanese tenkara rod. It's telescopic and folds down to just 51cm, but can extend to 3.6m and all the lengths in between.
(http://i1204.photobucket.com/albums/bb406/kapteindelarey/509fb948-4820-4951-8fa3-8a97509cca85_zpsb357a783.jpg)
It's easy to just pop into my backpack and take out when needed.
(http://i1204.photobucket.com/albums/bb406/kapteindelarey/6aa06383-2447-400c-957b-46790c03b988_zps98a6420a.jpg)
I attach a small length of line to the rod's lillian (the piece of string on the tip). To this line I attach a small clip onto which I just clip different pre-made traces as needed.
The rod has a very sensitive tip, so even small species feel 'bigger' ...
Also managed to pick up a 800g bass on a weightless junebug creature bait, using my normal spinning outfit.
(http://i1204.photobucket.com/albums/bb406/kapteindelarey/d9c905aa-0ed7-44e9-b06c-ba0ace0a7ea0_zps7171f973.jpg)
Cheers
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Awesome stuff Kaptein!