The sea has been rough lately with the large frontal system and today was no exception and so I had to postpone my deep sea fishing booking off Durban for safety reasons and decided to go down to Inanda Dam South Africa with some buddies for a morning of bass kissing (fishing).
We launched at 06h00 and wanted to be home by 12h00 as there was a storm predicted for the afternoon. Our hopes were high as we were expecting some really good topwater action; when we got down there the water was as flat as a sheet of glass, there was no wind and it was warm, the water was crystal clear and the surface temperature around 22 deg. C.
We started in some bays that I know have given me good topwater action in the past, and 1st cast one my buddies got a hit but missed the fish, he cast again and immediately was into a bass, landing a fish of around 1Kg (2.2lbs). This gave us a false hope and we continued with the topwater for a while with no further results. I then decided that the fish were deeper and went to some areas where I have been getting fish lately on my bookings and we found fish at the 6m (20ft) on finesse worms rigged drop shot style and mojo style carolina, and starting joking with each other about who was going to get the pig that day. We started kissing the bass to tell their big mamas to come see us, but unfortunately this did not work and we never landed a pig.
In the end we landed another 14 fish mostly around the 1Kg size with a few slightly smaller ones but all keeper size (over 300mm / 12") with the best 2 fish weighing in at 1.5Kg (3.3Lbs).
We ended up fishing until 13h00 and only getting home at 14h00, but were pleased with a 15 fish total for the morning. I had spoken to a few other anglers, all were fishing deep and many were struggling and complaining about the tough fishing conditions, and we heard of a 1.9Kg (4.2lb) bass that was caught.
If we were fishing a competition we would have weighed in a 5 fish bag of around 6Kg (13.2lbs) which I think would have been a good result under the conditions.
