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FRESHWATER ANGLING => Fly fishing => Topic started by: schloshd1 on August 07, 2011, 06:26:45 PM
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I took a new SWAMBO to Dullies this weekend. Didn't get to fish all that much, maybe 3 hours yesterday and 2 hours this morning. I did manage to get a few good fish though, 4 all together. The big hen fish is my new PB, did not weigh or measure it but it was a strong, solid fish. As usual the pics don't do the fish justice.
(http://i607.photobucket.com/albums/tt155/schlosd1/Dullies%20August%202011/016.jpg)
(http://i607.photobucket.com/albums/tt155/schlosd1/Dullies%20August%202011/027.jpg)
(http://i607.photobucket.com/albums/tt155/schlosd1/Dullies%20August%202011/051.jpg)
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(http://i607.photobucket.com/albums/tt155/schlosd1/Dullies%20August%202011/071.jpg)
(http://i607.photobucket.com/albums/tt155/schlosd1/Dullies%20August%202011/072.jpg)
(http://i607.photobucket.com/albums/tt155/schlosd1/Dullies%20August%202011/092.jpg)
(http://i607.photobucket.com/albums/tt155/schlosd1/Dullies%20August%202011/100.jpg)
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Great pics! :cgrts:
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Awesome stuff :shre: :envy
Those are some proper rainbows well done on the pb :resp: any estimates of the weight? Looks like a big fish!
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Good fish man. :cgrts: :cgrts: :cgrts:
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Thanks guys.
WK, I would not like to guess the weight, I never weigh fish so I don't really have a reference point other to say that it was heavier than a pint and lighter a case w;k .
All I know that it was noticeably bigger than any that I have caught before and also deeper bodied than what it looks in the pic. It's the first time that a trout has taken me into the backing. Got it at Mavungana's Bird of Prey dam. Well worth the R200 it costs to fish it.I will post a few pics of the flies that did the damage.
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Well Done Schloshd1. Sizer you got there !!!!!!! (clap)
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Nice fish Andrew!! :envy :envy It lookes like it was pretty cold out that way!!
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Congratulations -Great catches, of some real quality fish. Tell us on what did you get them.
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Thanks guys.
WK, I would not like to guess the weight, I never weigh fish so I don't really have a reference point other to say that it was heavier than a pint and lighter a case w;k .
All I know that it was noticeably bigger than any that I have caught before and also deeper bodied than what it looks in the pic. It's the first time that a trout has taken me into the backing. Got it at Mavungana's Bird of Prey dam. Well worth the R200 it costs to fish it.I will post a few pics of the flies that did the damage.
:hehe: :hehe: fair enough!
ALways wondered what that dam fished like, well done again bru :resp:
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Thanks guys. Rory, I wet waded to about waist deep to revive the big hen fish, pretty cold is an understatement.
Big Van, I was fishing a tandem rig, big olive aggrivater with an orange tail up front and a dark brown minkie with an orange tail about a meter behind it. Leader length +- 3m, 1m 2x flouro tippet then the first fly, another meter of 2x flouro to the second fly. Got 3 on the minkie and the big one on the aggrivater. Fished fairly fast over weed beds off the dam wall. Watched the bow wakes chase down the flies from about 2 meters away, BANG, fish on.
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Very interesting!
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You should submit that hen for catch of the month! http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/index.php/topic,6113.0.html (http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/index.php/topic,6113.0.html)
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congrats and thanks for sharing!
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Nice catch!!!
:trout: :trout: :trout: :trout: