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FRESHWATER ANGLING => FW Hotspots/locations => Topic started by: Dominique on December 03, 2011, 03:58:24 PM

Title: Homestead lake
Post by: Dominique on December 03, 2011, 03:58:24 PM

Hi guys, has anybody fished at homestaed lake for carp or barbel?

I always see people fishing there but never seen anything come out.

Keen to give it a try!  fshg

Title: Re: Homestead lake
Post by: Half-Pint on December 03, 2011, 04:10:44 PM

We used to fish the dam quite a lot a few years ago but lost interest because of the effort to catch rate. Our main success came with barbel on worms.

The difficulty is you need to fish right down at the dam wall and paddle baits out to the middle of the dam almost in line with the chimney.

We only ever landed one good carp there of about 8kg on a barbel bait. I think most of the carp have been taken out because we have tried every spot on the dam with almost every bait including some overnight sessions that resulted in nothing but some extremely cold bodies

Title: Re: Homestead lake
Post by: Dominique on December 03, 2011, 07:26:35 PM

Is there any other dams in the area that produce?
 :fshn:

Title: Re: Homestead lake
Post by: Herman Jooste on December 05, 2011, 09:21:55 PM

Quote from: Dominique on December 03, 2011, 07:26:35 PM

Is there any other dams in the area that produce?
 :fshn:

Nigel dam used to be a good option. Got my biggest Carp on bait there. :-)
 
That was 15 years ago though .