Bass Fishing in Kariba

[biffon]

Anyone been back to zims recently and been fishing at Kariba...?
if so can you advise if its true that Bass are becoming a regular catch there?

any pics to prove it would be good! :smiley20:

[Spaniel]

Yeah I was there about a month ago. Did not hear anything about bass. Bream off antelope though are huge 5kg not uncommon apparently. We did not have to much petrol so fished charara for 4 days (not hard core by any stretch, maybe 4/5 hours a day) and probably got about 30 tiger, biggest 4.5kg, average fish about 2.5. All things probably one of the better fishing trips.

Daniel

[RustyBear]

My old man just got back from kariba caught plenty of bream around the 5kg mark at antelope np mention of bass though, i would think that being a predatory fish as well the tiger would take out the competition.

[biffon]

Yeah Im a bit suspect myself purely from a scientific point of view. bass need cold water to breed..ie below 20 deg and karibas water temp only drops to 19 deg in july for about 3 weeks , not long enough for them to spawn.

but then there are enough fish in the sinyati river system to be able to flush a few bass down into kariba so theyll definitely be there but never in numbers... thats my thought.

but i have heard rumours of regular bycatches of bass on tiger spinners and also on worms for bream up near palm bay, bed island, spurwing

[RustyBear]

Its possible they could get flushed down, and i hope they catch on and start spawning it will make for great fishing.