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Check out what we've been up to at Lake Oanob – 20.08.2016 and 17.09.2016

The NBAA hosted this year’s B.A.S.S Nation qualifier event on the 20th and 21st of August 2016. The event was held at Lake Oanob over a period of 2 days. Easily one of the toughest events for the year, anglers battled the elements and low water levels to land some fish. Never the less we had a very good turnout of anglers that competed.
The NBAA would like to thank Bank Windhoek and DeepCatch Trading (Score Energy Drink & Glenbrynth Whisky) for sponsoring the event.
The results of the tournament are as follows:
Senior Men:
                                            Day 1                             Day 2
1. James van Rooyen         1 fish   2.248kg              1 fish 2.258kg
     Alec Williams                  2 fish   2.698kg              1 fish   1.230kg
2. Neil Engelbrecht              1 fish   1.381kg              2 fish   2.356kg
3. Thinus Williams               1 fish   3.170kg              no fish

The biggest fish of the day was caught by Fernando weighing in at 3.256 kg and was also his personal best.

James’s summary of the competition is as follows: I caught my fish sight fishing with a gan craft swimbait on 20lb gamma Fluro with a Gloomis swimbait rod and curado 300 reel fishing shallow bays..

Alec’s summary of the day is as follows:
I caught all three fish a mojo rigged plastic fishing deep points. I don’t have much more to elaborate on as I feel most of it was luck.

Thinus’s summary of the day is as follows:
In practice I found fish in the first 1/3 of bays which indicated that fish was starting to look at possible spawning places in bays. I marked these places and other possible "good" areas on my map and decided to rotate these areas in the tournament.

 

On tournament day I started in the shallows with a Spro frog and pitching structure with a finesse jig. I did not find any activity shallow and started fishing deeper rock points close to marked areas where I lost a nice fish on the jig. Word on the water was that everyone was having a tough tournament - I decided to continue fishing points and bluff walls for the rest of the day targeting staging fish and was rewarded with a fish over 3kg (duma fish) in the last 15minutes at the dam wall area using a green pumpkin super hog texas rigged.

This put me in first position after day one. On day 2 when I put my trolling motor into the water it unfortunately did not work and I could only fish one area where the wind was not bothering me resulting in no fish being weighed. 

Well done gents, we will keep a close eye on you at the next competition

Winning Ways Newsletter (Part 2)– Lake Oanob – 17.09.2016 
 

The NBAA hosted another National Tournament for 2016 on the 17th of September on Lake Oanab. A cold front hit Namibia on the Friday and prevailed through Saturday resulting in even tougher fishing conditions. It was with great pride that we could showcase and use our brand new weigh station. We would like to thank Nic Kruger from KTE Namibia for building and sponsoring a lot of the material for the weigh station.
The NBAA would like to thank Bank Windhoek and DeepCatch Trading (Score Energy Drink & Glenbrynth Whisky) for sponsoring the event.
The results of the tournament are as follows:

Senior Men:
1. James van Rooyen         4 fish 4.102 kg
2. Anton de Wit                    2 fish 3.470 kg
3. Fernando Abrantes         1 fish 3.256 kg

The biggest fish of the day was caught by Fernando weighing in at 3.256 kg and was also his personal best.

James’s summary of the competition is as follows:
I caught my fish on a drop shot rig with a 4” fineness worm on a Gloomis drop shot rod with an aldebaran and 6lb Fluro. I targeted 12 – 14’ of water with the drop shot. I caught one fish a river2sea s waver swimbait on a 7.7 nrx with a Calais and 16lb Gamma Fluro. The fish on the swimbait was caught in a shallow bay.

Anton’s summary of the competition is as follows:
Early morning we first started in the back of a bay where we previously located fish and saw cruising fish prior to the competition. That did not work out as planned. We moved out of the bay to a part of the dam where there is shallow water near deep water forming part of the main lake. There I managed to pick up a good fish but unfortunately the fish broke the line. Dumb mistake for not checking the line for rock damage. I left that area and tried to get the same in other parts of the dam. Unfortunately that did also not work out as planned. After we had a quick lunch we returned to our first spot. We moved along the bay in 12 to 15 feet of water managed to catch a keeper in 4 to 6 feet of water just after 2 o’clock in the afternoon. After spending time in deeper water we returned back to the same depth and I managed to catch the 2.8 Kg fish. Both were caught on zoom paddle tail in junebug colour. I slow rolled the paddle tail on both occasions and that seemed to work for me. The water temperature was about 65 degree in the afternoon as to 60 degree early morning.

Fernando’s summary of the day is as follows: Not having time to practice much for the competition we fished 4 weeks before the time. We located fish on the out skirts of possible spawning bays and on points. We got 2 nice fish in these areas. So when we started preparing, we tied rigs as we suspected it to be a similar bite due to fish being close to spawn and a cold front passing on competition day. I insisted to tie on a white swim jig with a white paddle tail trailer as this what worked in the practice session. I slowly rolled the jig over rocks just ticking the tops, this method landed both fish in our boat in the competition. We fished gradually slopping banks in the morning sun from 15ft water casting to banks passing ledges and points..

There you have it folks. Try these strategies next time you are out on the water!

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