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Tel: (012) 543 1894 (Between 8am and 5pm)
Email: williecoetzee@gmail.com or allombaard@gmail.com

We attached a few photographs of the venue for your information below

A man was shot and killed this weekend at De Rust, Hartebeespoort dam. Six men approached mr. Jaco de Jager and his friend Hennie Jones. De Jager was shot in his camping chair and died in the arms of his wife. You can read the original article as it was written in Beeld here

Please make sure that you always visit De Rust and nearby venues as a group. We do not recommend camping at this moment in time. The owner claims that security takes priority and that they are working hard to improve the safety of their campers. Unfortunately, as an angling community we can only rely on ourselves when it comes to safety at our fishing venues. This is an unforgiving and selfish act by people with no regard for human life.

Our prayers are with the family of the victim.

Johan Ryan shared some photos of the 4,7 kg carp caught during his visit to Bosparadys on 4 September 2011. Nice catch Johan!

Some of the photos below were provided by Koedoe angling club.

We arrived early Saturday morning and was soon greeted by a few friendly faces, a warm fire and a cup of coffee. Because this was a workshop and we had a prior engagement later that afternoon we decided not to take our rods along, in hindsight, clearly a mistake. Two of the youngsters, Charldon and Roald Matthee caught two beautiful Hartebeespoort dam carps of 5.30 and 5.90 kilograms respectively early on and as the day progressed Markus Swart, Elrich Lambrechts, Sarel Boshoff, Barend Booyse and Peet Vorster joined in with their fish weighing in at 5.50, 3.90, 6.95, 6.00 and 3.30 kilograms.

Fishing depths varied, carp caught earlier the morning fed at 70 to 80 metres while the carp that came out as the day progressed was caught at a distance of 100 to 120 metres, all on sweet white dough.

In the past Hartebeespoort dam have been criticised for the amount of pollution in and around the dam. Altough there is still a fair amount of pollution affecting the area it must be said that conditions have greatly improved in the past two years and fishing standards are once again good. Unfortunately crime is still a problem and there are no real facilities for women to speak of at De Rust. If you decide to pay this venue a visit and to spend the night, make a point of going in a group and have at least two or more people awake at any point during the night.

For more information or to leave your comments, visit our De Rust page.

We arrived late friday afternoon and had a quick talk with our neighbours who didn’t seem to have much luck the day before. Because of the extreme cold and the success of a fellow angler on the far end of the dam we decided to follow a mixed strategy and fish with tiger nuts, boilies and white dough. As is usually the case, winter fishing requires alot of patience and we had our first run at 10:20 pm, a small carp caught on a caramel white dough. We had a second run at 1:15 am, but lost the fish close to the bank and decided to call it a day.

Bosparadys is located on a dairy farm and is your typical farm dam. The venue is kept very neat and not overcrowded like most other venues these days.

Photo provided by Beeld.You can read the original article as written by here.

Proper facilities are available and it’s evident that management took care of the hyacinth problem. We are truly looking forward to a visit to this wondeful venue. We took a few photos to give you an idea of what the place looks like.

Electricity ,proper ablution facilities and the fishing restrictions during the last three years is a recipe for the perfect fishing trip and we would definately visit this reserve in future. In our next post we will have a look at Dennekruin, yet another fishing venue in the Brits area.

A beautiful Klipdrift dam carp

We finally managed to organise a second trip to the private side of Klipdrift dam and this time around we managed to get a few lines in the water, the weather was spectacular and fish was in abundance. After the disappointment we experienced during our previous trip to Klipdrift dam and seeing some of the catches submitted by Theo Greyling during his trip to the Lakeview resort side of Klipdrift dam , I was excited by the prospect of what the dam may deliver. I initially struggled to get going but took the opportunity to learn from Casper van Tonder, a local and a frequent angler at Klipdrift dam. He set the pace early on and caught a few beautiful fish.

A carp caught by Casper van Tonder

The fish was active at about 80 to 100 meters and all caught on a microwave white dough. The best catch of the day however must have been a moggel, it’s only the second time I come across this fish specie and I was totally mesmerised by it’s beauty!

A moggel caught at Klipdrift dam

Here you can see more photo’s of Klipdrift dam.

The Hartebeespoort dam water quality

It is probably important to know that this dam was once a clean well preserved tourist destination. Now? Now it’s only a tourist destination, a green, money generating, polluted tourist destination. As rightfully said by my brother-in-law, only a scratch-and-sniff patch can truely provide our readers with the full effect, because it is not only the green colour but also the ‘wonderful’ smell completing the Hartebeespoort-dam-effect as we know it today.

Driving towards the famous tunnel, the traffic gave me a chance to get out of the car and walk around the bank.

Driving towards the famous tunnel

Notice the empty beer bottle in the photo below.

Pollution at Hartebeespoort dam

Despite all the bad reports on Hartebeespoort dam I still have a desperate longing to at least try fishing the various venues and we probably will. Recent reports in ‘The Tight Lines’ gave positive reviews on resorts such as De Rust and it might be worth while spending a few hours fishing these venues.