Sometimes finding small unfished farm dams may hold some pretty spectacular surprises. My friend, Rico Schrama, and I decided to target a small farm dam near Pretoria for a two night session. The dam sits underneath power lines and feels almost deserted in a way. 

Rico had fished the dam the week before and had some good success, landing seven fish on an overnight session all of which were stunning mirrors. Other than that, very little was known about what size and strain of fish the dam held. Therefore we were excited to see what the session had in store for us. 

Bivvy’s set, rods prepped, boat pumped, we ready to scan the dam and look for promising spots to drop our lines. We dropped the lines in roughly 1.5-1.8m of water. Our approach was very simple, sticking to the basics and feeding mainly maize and small amounts of hemp, tigers and other seeds. This tactic seems to work when approaching dams that never really see any bait.