Off to the Cape

[Herman Jooste]

Well folks, we're off to the Cape on Friday ( 17th) for 5 days. Fishing is booked on the streams for the 20th, plus whatever else my buddies down there can cook up.
I believe the forcast is very hot weather there this weekend.
Hope Rols has stocked up on the Windhoek Draught.

[REEFMAN]

  and safe travels Herman!

[Rory]

Nice one Herman, we want to see plenty of pics!

[schloshd1]

Nice one Herman, leave the Elbe and the Bomber at home, you wont need them for those Tinkerbell trout. Enjoy it.

[Herman Jooste]

Well the Cape trip has come and gone. What a great 5 days though. Seeing Jasper and Ethel again, and seeing Jasper nearly back to his "old" self was really good.

I fished the Hotel beat with Rols on Monday past. There was a strong upstream wind blowing, which although helped to temper the heat a bit, made managing drag and the fly really difficult. My fly seemed to spend more time in the air out in front of me, than gently drifting down the stream.

Rols missed a few takes then hooked a nice fish ( I presume ) which ran him down a small waterfall and broke him off. :sadd

I misseda swirl at the fly and so the morning went. Rols then allowed me to fish a good looking spot. Third drift and a fish just smashed the fly. I managed to keep the fish in the water, and after a short fight bring it to the net.  My first Cape stream trout. 

Needless to say I had all of a sudden just wanted to celebrate, so very shortly thereafter it was off to the Hotel.

Thanks To Rols for a great morning out.

[REEFMAN]

Awesome! Well done on the trout Herman! 

[Gerhard]

Nice report Herman.

Congrats on the 1st trout in the Cape Streams... 

[Ziggy]

I wish I was there! My favourite is some of the upper reaches of the Elandspad....tough to get to, but quite rewarding when you get there. The cape streams present challenging fishing and produce small fish, but a pleasure to wade. I found that fishing upstream with a tiny nymph  a lot of fun - no more than a leader just over the length of a rod and one and a half lenght of flyline out - crouching and dropping the nymphs in the tiny pools in amongst the rocks. Amazing how many fish there are - small but plenty! I always look forward to my trips down there. I sometimes feel that my 2 wt is a bit heavy for the elands pad - my buddy who fishes there regularly uses a  0 wt which he calls his "magic wand" and has amazing fun

[Herman Jooste]

Thanks guys.  :sml:

I must say that fishing with a 6' 6" , 2 # rod and 6X tippet was some thing VERY NEW.

I fish the Vaal with a 5# Stealth Bomber and 5,0 Kg tippet. 

Strangely enough, my 5kg line is un noticably thickerthan 6X fluorocarbon 

Methinks most f/f should look in the Carp section of their tackle shops.

[schloshd1]

Nice one Herman, looks like you had a great time! Ja, the carp section, those Daichiis . . .