Gerhard
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I grew up in Dullstroom South Africa and I started fly fishing at around 9 years old.
We moved to Pretoria and most of the fly fishing stopped for a long time.
Yesterday the opportunity yesterday to visit old family friends. The farmer allowed me to fish his dam again. 1st time in 13 years.
Very very few people are allowed to fish here so I was really privilege to cast a fly here once again.
My biggest trout I caught here as a boy on fly was 2,25kg...
The dam is situated at 6800ft.
I loaded the float tube and targeted deep water most of the day as the water is warm this time of year and I had to drive back to Pretoria in the evening so could not stay for the late afternoon early evening session.
The dam was stocked a couple of months ago with about 50kg of 500g trout and earlier in the year with 1 - 2.5kg trout.
The big trout in this dam is wild as wild can get and they fight very hard.
Unfortunately the wind blew the whole day that made things a bit interesting but I had a lot of fun going back to my roots...
I caught 8 x 500 gr trout and had a lot of fun...
We moved to Pretoria and most of the fly fishing stopped for a long time.
Yesterday the opportunity yesterday to visit old family friends. The farmer allowed me to fish his dam again. 1st time in 13 years.
Very very few people are allowed to fish here so I was really privilege to cast a fly here once again.
My biggest trout I caught here as a boy on fly was 2,25kg...
The dam is situated at 6800ft.
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I loaded the float tube and targeted deep water most of the day as the water is warm this time of year and I had to drive back to Pretoria in the evening so could not stay for the late afternoon early evening session.
The dam was stocked a couple of months ago with about 50kg of 500g trout and earlier in the year with 1 - 2.5kg trout.
The big trout in this dam is wild as wild can get and they fight very hard.
Unfortunately the wind blew the whole day that made things a bit interesting but I had a lot of fun going back to my roots...
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I caught 8 x 500 gr trout and had a lot of fun...
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