Mike Laubscher

We went Bass Fishing at Midmar Dam in the Kwa Zulu Natal Midlands of South Africa.

We were fishing the Bass Equaliser Tournament Trail as Team Fishing Adventures. Midmar always causes mixed feelings because you know there are beeeg fish, but you also know it is a tough dam.

So we started at the entrance to Pylon Bay near Duku Duku, and as I put my sneaker down and there was meters and meters of line there which wrapped up around the prop.

Whilst I was sorting this out my partner was into a fish, and we did not even have water in the live well, and so it was a mad rush around and evatually we had the fish in the live well with water and got the sneaker working.

By this time the wind had beached the boat and so we had to get out and launch it again.

We just got of the bank, and BANG, my partner was into a fish, at first we thought it was a smaller fish as it did not fight to hard, that was until we saw it and it saw us, and then we had a screaming reel and the fish took about 4 runs before we got it to the boat. She weighed in at 2.41Kg.

We ended up with 5 fish in total for the day, and one that had swallowed my complete mojo rig had died, so we did not take it to the weigh station, and we weighed in a 4 fish bag 3.8Kg

Fish Species: Large Mouth Bass
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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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