For the first time this week here in South Africa we had a casual start to the day. We got up around 6 AM and headed into Dullstroom and had a proper breakfast. Then we drove about 20 minutes out of Dullstroom to Belfast and negotiated dirt roads to the Belfast Dam. We launched Dan’s raft around 9 AM.
The fishing was tough though. We started fishing right where we put in the raft but all we caught were largemouth bass. We moved many times but every time all we caught were more largemouth bass. They were shallow and they were deep. We couldn’t get away from them.
The nuisance bass drove Dan out of his mind. Up through today I’ve never seen anyone change flies as much as Dan, but today he took it a step further. He changed Jerry’s line at least ten times experimenting with depth trying to find the trout over the bass.
We finally found the trout however. They must have been in search of colder water than the bass and we found them where the river came in. Instead of fishing sinking lines we ended up hand twisting nymphs on the floaters.
We have now fished each of the four venues to be used in the World Masters Fly Fishing Championships held here in February and tonight we returned to Johannesburg. We had a great dinner at a steakhouse in Nelson Mandela Square with my friends of FlyCastaway. And tomorrow we’ll hit the famous Vaal River for a day of yellowfish. Stoked!
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