Gauteng North Carp Angling
right first up slide your lead onto your mainline the size is up to you but i suggest a 2 1/2 oz lead or more.
now thread on 1 or 2 rubber shock beads these are for trying to cut down the tangles and to make sure the swivel on the marker float dont snag on the knot or lead
now tie your marker float on.
all done.
WEEDY MARKER FLOAT SETUP
heres what you need.
2. now thread on a cork ball with a baiting needle.
3. now tie a swivel onto the other end of line so the total length from lead to swivel is 12 inches.
4. now slide the cork ball over the swivel so just 1 eye is showing.
5. part 1 finished.
6. now thread the swivel (seperate piece of line with the lead attatched) onto your mainline.
7. now thread a bead onto your mainline.
8. now tie a marker float onto the end of your mainline.
FEATURE FINDING : THE ART OF FINDING UNDERWATER FEATURES
Some times on larger waters it isnt as easy as just casting to a island or just under a bush in the margins as banks dont allways contain vegetation for cover so you need to know what the lake bed is like out in front of your swim so you can stand a resonable chance of finding a carp patrol route.
Marginal shelfs are a great place to pick up a few carp and finding them is easy heres a few tips on what to look out for. You should start casting to the left or right of your swim and work your way across to the opposite side of your swim checking depths.
When the lead hits the lake bed you want to feel the vibration through the rod to indicate what the lake bed is made of. If its a solid/tap when it lands its gravel or sand if you dont feel much its probably silt. When doing this dont look at the lake look at the floor and try and picture the bottom.
As you pull the marker float back to you by raising your rod slowly over head youl feel the lead tight against the lake bed as it moves along you will feel a steady resistance or mabe tapping.
if you feel tapping its gravel you can roughly tell how big the stones are on the bottom as the lead slides over them.
Some times theres big mussle beds they also feel like big stones spread out a bit but watch your line because theyl close if tapped and might grab the line or lead. If its sand you will will feel it running along the bottom smoothly or if its soft silt or clay you will feel it sliding but with more resistace but this depends on how thick the silt/clay is.
When you feel different area`s like when silt patches hit gravel try raising your marker float, you should let a foot of line out at a time by pulling line from the spool with either your baitrunner set lightly or using your clutch untill you see your float this will tell you how deep that spot is. You should repeat this all the way in
When you find gravel you will be able to tell how big the gravel patch is or if its a bar you will feel it as you come up the back of it. you will notice that it pulls back a bit untill you hit the top of the bar and the leads not pulling back but this depends on how steep the bars are when at the top raise your marker float and see how deep it is
As you go over the bar youl generaly feel the line go slacker as it rolls over and falls down the other side now raise your float again ,is it deeper than the other side?whas it a gravel bar or was it the marginal shelf? if theres weed itl feel snaggy and youl need to pull harder till the lead pulls through. If its just clumps of weed it will be the same but less presure is needed to pull it out and then you might feel gravel or silt patches then mabe odd clumps of weed. If the bottom is covered in silk weed you will find your marker float wont rise to the surface or you will find it tangled around your rig when you reel in sometimes the carp wise up to suspiciously placed baits like right in the center of a bar or gravel patch. Try to find the gravel then pull back slowly till you just feel silt then leave it there so the leads in the silt but the baits on gravel or 12 inches onto the silt which is where they generaly start to feed like eating from the side of the plate. Youve just got to find the most likely feeding spots .
Die wedstryd skeidsregter (Willem De Jong) sal hulp aanbied tydens die ligas. Verder is die nuwe manne meer as welkom om rond te stap en die meer ervare manne raad en advies te vra.
2 February 2009
TO : SAFBAF Executive Committee
: SAFBAF Fixed Committees
: SAFBAF Member Provinces
NATIONAL PROTEA COLOURS ZONE 6 COMPETITIONS
The Action Committee decided on a meeting held on 1 February 2009 to, until further notice, suspend the awarding of National Protea Colours to athletes participating in die Zone 6 Competitions. The suspension will take effect after the SAFBAF Annual General Meeting on 4 July 2009. The implementation date is extended as to enable the Action Committee to get the amendments to the Constitution approved and to manage all the consequences of the decision. Written notice of the intended amendments to the Constitution will be circulated to all persons entitled to attend the Annual General Meeting, at least thirty (30) days prior to the date of the meeting. The extension of the implementation date means that National Teams will still be selected for participation in the 2009 Zone 6 Tournaments with the 2008 Junior Trials and the 2009 Ladies and Senior Trials as basis.
2. The reasons for the suspension of National Colours are due to the fact that Namibia and Zimbabwe increasingly fail to comply with the Zone 6 Constitution. This non compliance effect the eligibility of this tournament as suitable for the awarding of national colours.
3. In terms of the National Colours Regulations the award of national colours shall only apply to athletes who represent South Africa in an international competition of the required nature and standard as recommended by the relevant Member Federation against fully representative teams from another country or countries, provided that such recommendation is approved by the National Colours Board and furthermore that such recommendation be consistent with SASCOC High Performance System and any applicable policy of SRSA.
4. All application for the award of National Colours must be accompanied by an declaration signed by the President of a of Member Federation stating that:
Affiliated To:
South African Sport Anglers And Casting Confederation
Federation Internationale de la Pêche Sportive en eau douce
4.1. the Federation approves of the application for national colours;
4.2. the event is of the required nature and standard as to justify national colours;
and
4.3. the national team is participating against fully representative teams.
5. In a situation where Namibia and Zimbabwe are not able to comply with the Zone 6
Constitutional regulations and/or where the competitions is not of the necessary standard and status an/or where South Africa is not participating against fully representative teams, the President will not sign the declaration and thereby conduct a action that may be considered as a breach of the National Colours regulations, or constitute an abuse of the national colours, or constitute bringing the said national colours into disrepute.
6. SAFBAF will on the next Zone 6 Executive Board Meeting proposes constitutional amendments to further increase the tournament standards to which participating nations had to comply. If one or more of the participating nations are not able to conform to the Constitutional stipulations, no national colours will be awarded in that particular year.
7. The Action Committee is making a submission to FIPS-ed General Assembly in Dresden, Germany on 18 April 2008 requesting FIPS-ed to consider the approval of a FIPS-ed Africa Continental Feeder Angling (Bank Angling) Championship as a substitution for the current Zone 6 Feeder Angling Competition in which South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe participates. We need a "Feeder Angling Competition" that is open to all African Countries and also to other FIPS-ed members wishing to participate in this tournament. This will lift the status and standard of the tournament and make it a tournament suitable for the awarding of national colours.
8. Provincial Members are requested to advice their provincial teams accordingly.
Regards
DES VAN JAARSVELD PRESIDENT
