Bloemhof Dam, Northern Cape, December 2015
We took Mark & Jason to Bloemhof Dam, which is on the borders of the Free State and the North West provinces in South Afric,a as they'd been wanting to go fishing there.
Bleomhof is a huge dam on the Vaal and Sand Rivers.
We camped at Bloemhof Dam Nature Reserve which is on the northern shore of the dam. (There'a another site on the southern shore - Sandveld Nature Reserve). Our site was amongst the trees, where there were electric points. It was a hundred metres or so down to the water's edge as the dam was only 40% full.
The twins loved the fishing despite the hight temperatures (high 30s every day) and often fished for 10 hours! Over 6 days they caught over 200 fish, mostly carp but also scalies, mudfish and barbel.
They collected the fish in a keep net and after a photo or two all the fish were released.
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