Flyfishing report: Yellowfish - Lower Vaal & Orange

Date of Report: Wednesday, 3rd June 2026
Name: Noel Wewege
Email: noelwewege@absamail.co.za
Phone: 083 259 6953

 All three rivers are unfishable and will remain so for some time. The middle Vaal at Elgro near Potch was about 200 cusecs last week and downstream the outflow from Bloemhof Dam is very high. The Riet at Douglas which is a small river is about 40 cusecs and is very dirty while the release from Vanderkloof is about 1000 cusecs which makes flyfishing downstream in the Orange near Hopetown impossible as it needs to drop to about 100 cusecs.

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Noel with Orange River yellow when the flow was high but at least fishable with fly.