LOWVELD
2016
2016
2016 Lowveld Bass Trail Round 7:
Driekoppies Dam, August 13th.
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The team representing Angling & Outdoor
World, a premier fishing tackle retailer in
Nelspruit, enjoyed a record breaking day on
the water. Charl Carey and Michael Cronje
weighed in 10.35kg to win the tournament,
the new LBT 5-fish-limit record. This mammoth bag included the second biggest bass
ever weighed in the Lowveld Bass Trail.
Carey’s 4.39kg bass was just 30 grams lighter
than the existing record, caught by Frank
Gottschalk at Driekoppies in August 2015.
he penultimate tournament of the
LBT season was held at Driekoppies
Dam on Saturday, August 13th. The
Lowveld Bass Trail anglers didn’t disappoint
with four limits over 7kg and two bass over
4kg coming to the scale. At the time of the
tournament the water level of the dam was
hovering around the 32.4% mark, but this
didn’t deter the thirty seven teams that
entered from giving it their all on the dam
that is known for its population of colossal
lunker largemouth bass.
“
Carey and Cronje caught all of their keepers
on three baits: Zoom Super Flukes, Zoom
Magnum Flukes and 4” Big Bite Baits Rojas
Fighting Frogs. They focussed most of their
efforts in around 8 feet of water dissecting
trees with pinpoint casts, with most of their
bites coming while the baits were on the
drop. Team Angling & Outdoor World have
now won at least one Lowveld Bass Trail
tournament per season for the last three
years running.
Only three teams failed to bring any fish
to the weigh-in, while eighteen teams
weighed a full bag of five bass. In total,
131 bass were weighed in at an average
of 0.778kg. This is a massive improvement from the July tournament also at
Driekoppies where the average weight
was 0.451kg.
”
Angling Times Weekly SA
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