Author Topic: DRAKENSBERG ROUNDTRIP ON FLY AND TENKARA (Read 12071 times)

Papparoach · « **Reply #20 on:** March 26, 2012, 10:50:33 AM »

Great report with lovely photo's Koos. My mate and i also fished for the Bushmans for the first time, we went three weeks ago. Awesome fun, we stayed and fishin in the reserve. You caught some decent fish, the average size we caught was in the 10" range, seems theres better fishing to be had outside the reserve. I caught most of my fish on a humpy and RAB. I will definately try and go back there, nothing beats dry fly fishing in my opinion.
Do you feel that the Injusiti river fishes better than the Bushmans?

Cheers

E.T. · « **Reply #21 on:** March 26, 2012, 11:05:23 AM »

Quote from: Papparoach on March 26, 2012, 10:50:33 AM

Great report with lovely photo's Koos. My mate and i also fished for the Bushmans for the first time, we went three weeks ago. Awesome fun, we stayed and fishin in the reserve. You caught some decent fish, the average size we caught was in the 10" range, seems theres better fishing to be had outside the reserve. I caught most of my fish on a humpy and RAB. I will definately try and go back there, nothing beats dry fly fishing in my opinion.
Do you feel that the Injusiti river fishes better than the Bushmans?

Cheers

There is decent fish in the reserve too. Outside the reserve there is Browns and Bows and certain pools have the biggest Scalies I have ever seen. The fishing this time round was spectacular on the Bushmans.

Injusuthi is a magical place in its own right and this is a place where you can catch 50-100 fish in a day for sure. The fish here aren't big as they average from 6cm-20cm, but lower down below Gorge Pools I have heard of monster Trout coming out with the odd Brown as well. Injusuthi has so much water that you will fish it for 3 days straight and you would not have been able to fish it all.

My next trip would be to Bergville. I will use it as my base and fish all those reserves close to it.

Papparoach · « **Reply #22 on:** March 26, 2012, 11:15:25 AM »

Thanks Koos, we only fished from the reserve gate to the Cascade pools. We didn't try the water further up as it looked to 'thin' to hold decent fish. Will definately be more adventurous next time, what i enjoyed was the fact that we didn't see any other fly fisherman on the water. I assume those waters don't get fished that often?

E.T. · « **Reply #23 on:** March 26, 2012, 11:25:59 AM »

The most productive stretch in the reserve is from the Chalets up. Eventually you will get to a fork. We took the right fork and the water here becomes picture perfect. I fished a CDC & Elk and I had decent fish come up to it on this stretch only to reject it.

Both Daryl and Andrew caught bigger fish than what you caught further down.

I even spooked 20-30cm fish in one of these pools.

dizzy · « **Reply #24 on:** March 26, 2012, 02:22:13 PM »

very cool report Koos.
Was great fun to be able to share a few days fishing with you and Andrew.
Sorry about the chicken burger & the chilli burger LOL. Wont order from Wimpy again.....

E.T. · « **Reply #25 on:** March 26, 2012, 02:24:49 PM »

Quote from: dizzy on March 26, 2012, 02:22:13 PM

very cool report Koos.
Was great fun to be able to share a few days fishing with you and Andrew.
Sorry about the chicken burger & the chilli burger LOL. Wont order from Wimpy again.....

No stress about those mate.
Load some of your pics of the trip on here if you don't mind.

And a big welcome to you, you will like it here

dizzy · « **Reply #26 on:** March 26, 2012, 02:36:48 PM »

I'll pop some on later this evening :)
Thanks Dood!

E.T. · « **Reply #27 on:** March 26, 2012, 02:39:35 PM »

Sweet

dizzy · « **Reply #28 on:** March 27, 2012, 08:08:21 AM »

As promissed...

dizzy · « **Reply #29 on:** March 27, 2012, 08:10:23 AM »

a few more

dizzy · « **Reply #30 on:** March 27, 2012, 08:11:09 AM »

and the last 2

E.T. · « **Reply #31 on:** March 27, 2012, 08:27:02 AM »

Excellent :shre:

WalkersKiller · « **Reply #32 on:** March 27, 2012, 08:27:06 AM »

Awesome stuff Dizzy! And by the way

dizzy · « **Reply #33 on:** March 27, 2012, 08:43:01 AM »

Thanks WK :)

FCLoretz · « **Reply #34 on:** March 27, 2012, 08:53:27 AM »

Hi Darryl great photos and

good to have you here

Rory · « **Reply #35 on:** March 27, 2012, 10:16:11 AM »

Dizzy! Welcome to Ultimate!

dizzy · « **Reply #36 on:** March 27, 2012, 11:57:08 AM »

Thanks Chaps

Herman Jooste · « **Reply #37 on:** March 27, 2012, 08:32:33 PM »

Daryl, firstly

.

We now have another VERY competent, ex competition f/f

on board who can answer the questions that I would have no idea of the answers to.

dizzy · « **Reply #38 on:** March 27, 2012, 08:50:32 PM »

Oom HHJ

I'm not competent, just very lucky, cos I get to practice so often

Herman Jooste · « **Reply #39 on:** March 27, 2012, 08:58:12 PM »

You also have a good memory.

HHj was my user name on the original Flytalk site 6 years ago.