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Wild Water Adventures - part 20 A movie by Gabor Dome
All scales are intact.
The secrets of South Africa part 2
We arrived at the next fishing site, the Laurentia Reservoir.
We travelled more than 250 kilometres in order to take our place on this afternoon,
as this is a special, big fish water which where we can be really successful in the late afternoon and in the evening.
It's beautiful water and there are gorgeous surroundings in the mountains.
Of course I' ll not alone try to catch the fish of the lake, but with my friend, Gys,
who is the captain of the South African Feeder Team.
Now our tackles are ready to catch, the terminal tackles are in the water,
we look forward with great interest to what' s in store for us in the late afternoon and night.
Not long ago the sky grew dark and as darkness fell the first bite has arrived.
The previously still, flat water surface comes to life.
Although I haven't seen them, but I've heard very serious carp jumps, splashes and suddenly my bait runner rang out.
I could not pull it too much; it doesn' t come up from the depths...
... but this strong tackle and the braided line will show the right direction to the fish sooner or later.
Otherwise we also learned about the lake in the meantime that there are a lot of snags, fallen trees, rocks, small and large stones,
mussel-colonies and very interesting large crayfish inhabit the water too, which are all make fishing more difficult.
Consider these it was definitely a good choice to wind up braided line directly onto the spool; otherwise
with the traditional monofilament lines the anglers wouldn' t have any chance to fight a larger bodied fish with success.
Wait, wait wait! And now!
Okay. It' s fine! Super!
We've got our first fish.
Thanks, my friend! Okay.
The hook is perfectly in the corner of the mouth. Anyway it seems to me that
my hook has caused the first wound to the mouth of this fish.
It's 9 kilos! The exact weight of the first fish is 9 kilograms.
This is our first nice, chunky, beautiful wild-water carp that we caught in the Laurentia Reservoir.
Nice fish! Thank you! Good!
The bait is the Fluo Soluble Pop-up pellet in Sweet Pineapple
flavour that I never leave at home when I on foreign fishing trips and I am going to fish for carp.
I put one larger version from this onto the hair rig.
Here is the bait, it is ready to cast.
I put into the feeder a handful of Super Cast Plain, a basic, unflavoured groundbait,
which I' ll mix with small amount of Super Cast Perdeby flavour.
This is a very delicate, sweet special aroma with spicy taste and smell. I stuff this into the feeder.
Here is the terminal tackle that is ready to cast in.
It' s worth checking this special bait mixture also at daytime conditions, how it operates in the crystal-clear water.
The curiosity of the Perdeby flavour - which is mixed with the groundbait - that despite the intense,
beautiful red colour it forms instantly a cloud of greenish fluorescein during dissolution.
We' ve experienced in the South African angling that here flavour should not be made without fluorescein,
which forms this unique, greenish cloud.
This is very impressive in the crystal-clear water and that is guaranteed to attract the attention of fish.
It' s a good evidence for how well it works that according to the information received from the local anglers
the catch starts early dawn at 2 o ' clock.
That was a bit demoralizing when I heard that we have to wait for the catch this long...
In contrast, probably just due to the good bait combination I' ve started to catch fish after
9 pm and then an intensive fishing has begun.
Here is another night visitor. Huh, I don' t know how large it can be, but it also fights very well.
It swims on slowly, sluggishly but constantly.
It may even be larger than the previous one.
At least this is my secret hope.
When the 3.90 meter extra-heavy Team Feeder rod bends like this, it does not mean a fish weighs only 5 kilos.
As I see it is a beautiful, slender-body scaly carp.
And I get it!
It's a huge, beautiful wild carp.
It's 9.60 kg! It is larger than the previous one!
It is not midnight yet, and here is the second beautiful carp that eat the bait after only 45 minutes...
... which is nothing but my globetrotter Fluo Soluble Sweet Pineapple Pop-up pellet!
Today this fishing forms beyond my expectations. A few hours ago I was at a bank of a fantastic river,
while now I am at the shore of a beautiful lake, where I can fight with extraordinary carps.
My other reel! My other rod also brings a bite!
We have more and more actions.
I never thought I can catch so quickly another carp...while it does not seem so large.
Here is the carp.
In addition, I didn't cast it to a long distance...it was here, close to the island.
Come here! That's it!
And here is the next carp!
This is the first fish that has brought back the bait, but it seems that it is a different type of bait.
This is a local, highly effective bait called Shooga berry, which is special flavoured bait that made of the roots of a plant.
It is very interesting and flexible, I haven' t seen and experienced similar bait anywhere, but as I say the ingredients of this very tough bait is 100% herbal.
Meanwhile the ducks also comment what has happened.
I had to change the terminal tackle on this rod, because there was a very vehement bite
and unfortunately the terminal tackle broke despite the braided line, and in the dark I got into my hand this feeder at the first time,
but it looks like the Method Flat Feeder also works perfectly.
Here is another nice carp in a good condition.
For me the most interesting one from the South African carp fishing methods is the feeder technique.
I can ask about this none but the most competent expert of the topic who is none other than Gys van der Westhuizen,
who is the captain of the South African Feeder Team, moreover who my friend is too.
Dear Gys, please show us the actual status of the South African feeder angling!
Okay! In South Africa the most popular fishing is bank angling. In bank angling there are 12 persons in a team.
Now we compete against Namibia and Zimbabwe for our national colours. Then... Now we want to compete against the Europe countries.
So to do that, we had to start with feeder fishing.
Now, feeder fishing is now 3 years old in South Africa. In the first year we went to Italy, in the second year to Belgium
and now we're very lucky country, this year we can also do in South Africa, so that is the third time.
The competition feeder fishermen 3 years ago there was 24, last year there was 22, this year we' ve got 11 teams and maybe it' s gonna be more.
So feeder fishing and competition is growing then the other fishermen also very interested in feeder fishing and it' s growing tremendously.
We' ve got the bank angling. The bank angling is thousands.
So the bank angling starts feeder the bank angling feeder fishermen very interested in the feeder fishing.
And it's growing a lot in South Africa.
Okay, this is also a nice type of feeder fishing, and I' m very glad for me for the first time to fish with you for large carp.
I saw last night you were very busy.
We saw yesterday that is not a day dam, it' s a night dam.
This morning only one fish came out. All your fish was at night time, so that was very good and very hard work at night.
And I hope that this will also grow in South Africa once we start doing movies
and you must come again and show us what to do to catch big carp.
Gys is right. We have a really busy and eventful night.
I haven' t had much chance to sleep, while our cameraman, Peter fell asleep a bit,
and in addition we had to wake up him during the fight with my biggest fish.
Come, carps!! (hungarian) Come, come come, come!
I caught this one next to the island too. However, it rushed very vehemently into the middle.
I was afraid that it goes round the island, so I came quite to the right. I managed to take it away from the island.
And now! It 's already close to the shore.
Oh, it felt the shallow shore waters. It decides to go another circle or even quite a few... who knows?
The tackle is very strong, it's adapted to the fish and the circumstances...Amazing... how it can pull even this,
this strong, hard rod as well.
The Team Feeder is a worthy opponent of this newer beautiful fish.
It will be nice!
It goes another circle.
These fish are very strong! Come closer!
You are already ours.
What a pack!
Beautiful, chunky, strong fish! It' s certainly far over 10 kilos.
All scales are intact.
Indeed, it is over 10 kilos! The carp is weighing exactly 11.56 kg.
It ' s a fantastic night. Call daddy!
Huh, how nice bite!
This is the first carp of the early dawn. After a really busy night,
it looks like we can trigger bites even after dawn.
Now here are the swirls. It approaches the shore
another nice scaly carp.
That' s it!
Well, here the hook had not penetrated too deep. It' s clear that it just holds a little piece of tissue.
However, thanks to the flexible rod I can pull it into the landing net.
This is my fifth beautiful carp in less than 9 hours, which counts really a remarkable achievement on this reservoir.
Oh, that' s it!
My master! Congratulation for you!
Congratulation, my friend! Thank you! Very nice carp.
The fishing is over in this reservoir.
I' m very glad that I could try my big carp feeder technique here as well and we got great results!
However, this tour is not over yet, we are expected in a next site at another water reservoir, the Rietvlei Reservoir,
where the reputed specialist writer, Derrick Nel is waiting for us, who is the carp expert of the Bank Angler magazine.
With his assistance we' ll get an insight into the South African secrets of the most popular South African carp fishing technique,
which is the "the bank angling", namely the coastal carp fishing and also into the "specimen"
or as we call it, boilie big carp fishing, and we ' ll get to know other specialties and curiosities too.
Nice fish! It' s a nice fish.
Nice fish for the evening. About 6 kilos.
Beautiful condition, nice commons, I' m not fishing very far, but a nice result. A nice result.
Good morning everybody, We had a relatively good fish through the night. One decent one.
But I' ll talk about my tackle. I specialize with specimen of big carp fishing in South Africa.
So we discuss through my tackle, I' m just to give you an idea what I use and we maybe possibly have a look at the rig,
and to see how it might be different in your country and our country.
Let' s go and have a look!
This is the basic rig that I will use. This is the pop-up boilie, it is a pineapple flavoured one. I did have a bottom 18 mm boilie on
the needle set as you can see there is missing. Gamakatsu camouflage hooks. This one is the size 6.
And I find them very-very good. I really like them a lot.
The hook-link is Quicksilver, 25 pound from Kryston. As you can see the hook operates almost like a helicopter rig,
it can move freely in all directions. So basically when your fish picks up the bait, there is no way that it through
can go besides its bottom lip or into the side lip. Very-very effective rig.
The lead is an interesting one. This is our feeder-lead, if you wanna call it that. That is manufactured in South Africa.
Strategy leadcore, 45 pound, about a meter long. I like my leadcores very long. And then onto my leader,
you see that this leader is a very thick leader, it' s a 0,50 (mm), and we use the thick leader
because there are a lot of snags and stumps and trees in most of our waters in South Africa.
And as we all know your big fish enjoy those areas and those areas that we target so in order to target them successfully
we need a strong, thick leader to aid and getting this fish out
For now I will take you across to the other side. In South Africa we have specimen carp fishing ľ big carp fishing,
and then we have the most popular one that is what we call conventional bank angling.
There is a big difference between the two. It' s something that we' ve all grown up with in South Africa
we' ve all started of as conventional bank anglers, and then those who wanna catch the bigger fish
move on to specimen carp fishing.
So we have to cross to the other side, very popular water this for the bank anglers,
and then we' re gonna take a look to the tackle packs, speak to somebody and I can show us
and you will see the difference between the specimen carp fishing and the conventional bank angling.
It is very interesting that in this market the use of fine fishmeal groundbaits
- which are so effective in Europe and Hungary - is almost unknown concept.
They are allegedly not using these types of groundbaits, because it can only lure catfish.
Well, I doubt it, because a lot of places in Hungary fish have fed exclusively
with corn, still the fishmeal mixes are highly effective.
The long and short of it: here you can hardly find this kind of baits and also almost no one uses them.
Everyone believes in these corn-based or seed-enriched groundbaits.
However, all three of the carp fishing techniques have one common feature, namely the use of fluorescence
that even better known as fluorescent type liquids and flavours.
I must admit that in turn in this they are far ahead of us. They have much more experience and knowledge
of the use of this type of additives, which are certainly unquestionably effective.
Many people know that these liquids have become well-known throughout Europe also due to the four-time world champion South African team.
Here in South Africa we do not find any angler who doesn' t use or apply one of the versions.
But they are far ahead of us in the type of flavours, the use of aromas and the diversity of additives they apply too.
Obviously, we can say without doubt that the vast majority of this is business, business interest, since finally the anglers get
confused so that he do not even know what to choose. Of course this also may be true, but the long and short of it: the use of these flavours
- which actually converts the very simple basic mix with slight exaggeration into really marvellous bait -
justifies them considering the final results.
We didn' t have to search for a long during the visits at the local fishing stores to find these special additives
that exist in powder and liquid versions as well.
The most popular colours are the fluorescent green and red. You should see that a small amount of powder what can do.
I haven' t opened it yet, but the small amount of powder that got onto the water will fully colour these 10 litres in a short period of time.
It' s amazing that almost 1-2 grams of powder just fell onto the water and it painted the entire amount,
but what' s even more impressive is that if I pour it all into the waterů it spreads and colours more square meters.
Before anyone would think it' s a dangerous chemical, I would like to reassure our viewers in a hurry that
this is a special, very fine, very clean, good quality substance, which is used for example for
angiography in human medicine when looking for a focus, which is hard to see,
hard to find with any other technology.
Let' s see what the fluorescent red does!
I almost don Ĺ t have to scatter it, the little amount that falls out from the cap...
is already enough to colour the water.
Many people might say also that this is nothing more than trickery. Maybe it is, maybe not.
But those flavours, those dense liquids that contain this fluorescence, together,
combined with this special colour effect they already operate unambiguously.
Of course, the highest quality baits are also made with these special flavour and fluorescence techniques.
I take one piece out, one boilie and I drop it into the water.
It' s a pop-up boilie. It' s amazing how it can emit the colour.
So every single bait is very clean, delicious and full of well spreading flavour,
in addition it is a source of serious visual stimulus for fish.
And this is only the tip of the iceberg, because thousands of these flavours,
additives and baits line up on the shelves of the South African stores!
As I promised you, we' ve come to the other side of the lake just to come and I' ll show you the conventional bank anglers,
there are many of them yet today,
so we' ll go through and have a look at the tackle that they use and the bait that they
use and the differences between specimen in South Africa and conventional is South Africa.
So let' s go and have a look!
- How are you? You well? - I' m all right, thank you!
I want to show to the viewers your box.
The conventional bank anglers in South Africa - as you can see - use a lot of flavours, a lot of colours,
a lot of different things to get the fish on the bait.
If the fishing is slow, they change to a different flavour, perhaps a different colour just to try to make things quick.
This type of fishing is tempo fishing, which means a lot like feeder fishing,
you want to catch fish the whole time, the whole time. So it' s a fast, hard working type of fishing.
Here this is a typical South African bank angler rig. On there we have a quick release system,
when they bring the fish out, instead if re-baiting everything, they have a ready prepared bait one that they clip on.
There is the feeder-holder, so the feed gets pushed around it.
In South Africa the fish has 2 hooks, small hooks.
As you can see on the shank of the hook there are two small, very-very small hooks at the back.
The reason for there these they don' t fish with the hair, there is no hair rig,
the bait is put onto the hook and those stop the bait from sliding off again.
So conventional in South Africa we do not fish with a hair, the bait is on the hook.
All right on my soft bait, I put on the powder fluorescein.
All right, then I use my FX, my liquid fluorescein, now I put it on my bom.
And it' s complete and I cast it.
As you can see, the traditional South African reel for the bank angler - we call it a centre pin reel in South Africa.
It takes a bit of practice but we' ve all grown up with those reels from a young age we sort of fishing with them,
so for us, South African bank anglers they are not difficult to use, even if it looks a bit difficult for you.
The interesting thing is that you need to guide the line onto the reel with using your finger as you reeling the line in,
just to get it straight on the reel. Very-very interesting, very different, I' m sure for you.
You can see one of the setups. Everything is colouring pink. The rods are pink, the buckets are pink.
In South Africa lot of the husbands want their wives to join them on the fishing trips,
and so they buy their wives pink rods or they girlfriends pink rods and pink tackles
so it makes the look more attractive for them and as we know most ladies like pink.
The storm is so unpredictable in South Africa, especially during the summer months.
An hour ago the water was flat, it was hot, 30 degrees Celsius but within 15 minutes the storm comes through, the wind is blowing, it ' s raining, wet some hell,
so in an hour it would be finished probably and there will be a nice flat evening again.
Just to show you how unpredictable our weather can be in South Africa. Enjoy!
My dear friend, thank you very much for your help! I've gained so much and extremely useful information.
See you next time in Hungary!
Okay! See you in Hungary! Thank you! Bye-bye!
I' m going that way. Hello!