Largemouth Bass fishing in South Africa

The pics were taken of myself and fishing mate Shane on a recent trip to Lake Phobane in South Africa during October. 

As you can see, quite a variety of lures were used to catch these brawlers.  Although none of the fish depicted are really large, they do put up quite a fight on light tackle- the rods I was using are 3-5kg Bream/estuary rods, 2500 size reels, 15lb braid and 12lb fluorocarbon leader.

 


lachieH's picture

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 some interesting fish there

Tue, 2014-12-02 08:52

 some interesting fish there

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 Nice sized bass, they do go

Tue, 2014-12-02 09:10

 Nice sized bass, they do go hard on appropriate tackle 

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Nice mate

Tue, 2014-12-02 12:04

Was looking forward to the pics. Glad to see its figured out

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Thanks guys for the positive

Tue, 2014-12-02 12:38

Thanks guys for the positive comments. 

(Neels had to show me how to embed pics from Photobucket- technologically challenged you see...)

Yes, great fun, and cheap too at an exchange rate of more than 10 ZAR to one AU$