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51 Rainbows This Weekend!
« on: January 30, 2012, 09:11:36 AM »
Hi guys, hope you all had a great weekend, especially the guys who went to the social, I am  :envy and bleak I missed out...

Anyway here is my flyfishing report from the weekend... Myself and a few friends travelled to Millstream Farm, my father and mother could not make it as my father is too ill to travel these days...

It was Mrs Simpson and Myself, Mrs Simpsons sister, gavin erwin, his girlfriend and our mate Sean.

We arrived to a hot afternoon on Friday and quickly set up and Sean was on the water first... He landed 2 fish before myself and Gavin had finishged tying our leaders on, back they went... Sean got 6 more and Gavin got 4, I only managed the 2 which were kept for the pot, onje was a nice hen weighing 1.1 kgs, caught on an Olive Woolly Bugger in the"big fish weir" My beauty... All the fish we caught were in pristine condition and I have never seen such colourful, strong stock trout in my entire fly fishing career. After that we retired and had a few beers and spoke about the day ahead tomorrow!



I was up at 5am on saturday morning and it was very cold, but very beautiful with the highveld mist rising from the water... I quickly got one small  :trout: while Gavin and Sean headed to Lake Millstream, the biggest body of water on the farm, its 20 acres. Gavin was un fortunately unsuccesful but Sean managed a 1.5kg Hen (Which looked bigger) and a 1.1 kg Cock... After that we fished many dams and Sean and Gavin nailed the fish one after the other, I only got 6 for the day, including a fingerling in one of the big dams... We also caught 3 fresh Trout in the 400-500 gram region which Gavin smoked to perfection!

















After a bit of a heavy night we were on the water at about 7 and early morning we all got fish opver a kilo, Sean got the biggest, it was a fat long fish but the scale read 1.2kgs  :cnfzd it was bigger than that we were sure... We then fished the trophy dam without success and fished Lake Tintern for a while before we headed bAck home... It was a great weekend with lots of fish caught, here is the summary:

Sean got 20
Gavin got 19
I got 12

The flies that did the most damage was the olive Lake Dragon, Olive Woolly Bugger and Olive Fritz...











WK  :ult:
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Re: 51 Rainbows This Weekend!
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2012, 09:16:55 AM »
15 fish kept,

36 released safely...  :-)
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Re: 51 Rainbows This Weekend!
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2012, 09:33:48 AM »
Nice going there Gareth,
My only question is when did you get the time to have your head shaved?  First pic you have hair..the rest nought. Rainbows make extremely good eating...think they are my absolute favorite.
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Re: 51 Rainbows This Weekend!
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2012, 09:35:20 AM »
Thanks Eric...

 :hehe: :hehe: well noticed, Mrs Simpsons sister shaved my hair after breakfast on saturday  :yipee:
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Re: 51 Rainbows This Weekend!
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2012, 09:50:15 AM »
Nice going there Gareth!   fshg
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Re: 51 Rainbows This Weekend!
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2012, 09:55:58 AM »
Congrats on a good trip Gareth

We have booked a week there in April so I am really looking forward to it now.
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Re: 51 Rainbows This Weekend!
« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2012, 09:57:10 AM »
Great report and photos.  (clap)
Quote from: Eric Roberts on January 30, 2012, 09:33:48 AM
My only question is when did you get the time to have your head shaved?  First pic you have hair..the rest nought.
Well spotted. What happened, WK, lost a bet?  :hehe:
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Re: 51 Rainbows This Weekend!
« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2012, 09:59:17 AM »
Great stuff! Sounds like you had an awesome time...

I was also wondering about the hair... And what led to it being shaved of....
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Re: 51 Rainbows This Weekend!
« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2012, 10:05:05 AM »
Thanks guys!

Woerman, you will love i there, top class trout destination!

Naruto, Hermann, it was hot and my hair was annoying me  :hehe: :hehe:
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Re: 51 Rainbows This Weekend!
« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2012, 10:22:22 AM »
Well done Walks
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Re: 51 Rainbows This Weekend!
« Reply #10 on: January 30, 2012, 10:24:19 AM »
You must have a real funny tan around your head after wearing that cap all day... :hyst: :hyst: :hyst:
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Re: 51 Rainbows This Weekend!
« Reply #11 on: January 30, 2012, 10:58:59 AM »
 :hehe: :hehe: :hehe: I do and a weird glasses tan  duh
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Re: 51 Rainbows This Weekend!
« Reply #12 on: January 30, 2012, 11:19:49 AM »
Fantastic fishing as always Gareth!  (clap)
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Re: 51 Rainbows This Weekend!
« Reply #13 on: January 30, 2012, 11:21:13 AM »
 (clap) (clap) (clap)

Awesome stuff G !
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Re: 51 Rainbows This Weekend!
« Reply #14 on: January 30, 2012, 11:40:01 AM »
Thanks a lot guys  :tkx:
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Re: 51 Rainbows This Weekend!
« Reply #15 on: January 30, 2012, 12:06:25 PM »
Some very pretty fish there Gareth, well done to you guys and well done on releasing 36 of your fish  :win:
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Re: 51 Rainbows This Weekend!
« Reply #16 on: January 30, 2012, 12:08:17 PM »
Thank you Bwana  :-)
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Re: 51 Rainbows This Weekend!
« Reply #17 on: January 30, 2012, 12:40:10 PM »
Congrats ....
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Re: 51 Rainbows This Weekend!
« Reply #18 on: January 30, 2012, 12:43:33 PM »
Thanks Kumz...
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Re: 51 Rainbows This Weekend!
« Reply #19 on: January 30, 2012, 12:45:32 PM »
WK good going there!
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