The newly deposited sticky Carp eggs attach onto any submerged objects like weeds, grass and other substrate over a large area along the shallow water’s edge. One 4kg female Carp can produce up to 1,000,000 eggs at a time. Once the eggs have been deposited, the males quickly fertilise the eggs and within a few days, the eggs will start to hatch.
In highly competitive and large fish populations, the adult fish will actually eat their own eggs, usually within the first 4 days. They see this as a quick protein fix.
More often than not, other smaller fish will also follow behind the spawning Carp and also eat the eggs – this is a time of feast for all resulting in a significant concentration of fish around the breeding site... and the Goli knows this all too well, much the same as bears that catch spawning salmon in the river.
So using this information I arose at 4am and made my way down to Korsmans, determined not to leave there until I had captured my action shot. The sun had just peeped over the horizon and there was a lot of activity in the shallows right in front of me.
It was not too long before I managed to capture some amazing action shots of not only one catch, but several. Wow, this was truly my lucky day!
