Mike Laubscher

Nikao Fishing Adventures guided the Father and Son on their Triton Boat at Inanda Dam South Africa for a second day. We launched at 06h00 and fished until 13h00.

The morning was superb without a breath of wind and stayed like this till around 10h00, then a breeze started picking up and the wind direction was constantly changing direction which is typical of Inanda Dam at times and by 12h00 we had a strong South Westerly blowing which put a serious chop and small waves onto the main dam area. This South Westerly is going to bring the anticipated cold front and rain for the next week.

Water surface temperature started at 19.4 deg C and ended at 20.8 deg. C.

We started at the cliffs in the morning with some topwater and had no enquiries and so I decided that again the fish are going to be deep. I am sure that the pre frontal conditions are responsible for the fish being deep as the week coming is going to be really lousy with lots of rain and heavy winds. Out came the drop shot rods again and we started checking at the 6m (20ft)mark where we had success the day before, but found no fish. We ended up getting our first fish at 8m (26ft) and all our other fish at 9m (30ft) on steep drop offs.

We ended up with 9 fish for the day, the best being around the 1.5Kg (3 ¼ lbs) and most our fish just under and over the 1Kg (2 ¼ lbs) mark and 2 smaller bass that were less than keeper size.

If this were a competition we would have weighed in a 5 fish bag of around 5.7Kg (12 ½ lbs).

Fish Species: Large Mouth Bass
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Bass on Drop Shot in Deep Water
Bass on Drop Shot in Deep Water

Bass on Drop Shot caught Deep
Bass on Drop Shot caught Deep


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Mike Laubscher

About The Author: Mike Laubscher

Company: Blue Water Charters - Durban

Area Reporting: Durban. KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

Bio: I have been fishing since I was 5 years old in Durban and have fished many places around the world and in South Africa, but Durban is my home waters. I fished competitive for many years and I have been running my own charters since 2008 with 2 companies and 2 boats, fish a variety of styles and target a variety of fish species in both Salt and Fresh water, have many published articles in several magazines on fishing. Love nature and outdoors, Am very conservation minded and have a passion for birds. I am crazy about big Tuna, Marlin Fishing and Game Fishing, and also love light tackle spinning, am a total lure junkie. Represented my province in fly fishing for many years and am also pro staff for Rapala/Shimano. I want to write a book on fishing one day. 3 items left on my fishing bucket list, guess then a new bucket list will be in order. As a writer I have my own quote: \"I love taking people fishing because it releases their inner child, and in doing so keeps my inner child alive.\"

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