{"id":335,"date":"2014-05-10T08:42:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T06:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/?page_id=335"},"modified":"2014-06-10T16:10:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T14:10:28","slug":"beat-3-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/streams\/witte\/beat-3-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Beat 3 &#038; 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Beat 3<\/h3>\n<p>[hcolumns]<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-md-4\">\n<p>[columnhelper col-md-4]<\/p>\n<p>Image Needed<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-8\">\n<p>[columnhelper col-md-8]<\/p>\n<p>Beat 3 is an almost strictly an early-season beat, as the flow drops rapidly in the large boulder-strewn gorge in this section of river.<\/p>\n<p>Large brown trout can be approached by \u201cleopard crawling\u201d along the banks of deep pools, where fish have a definitive habit of patrolling the margins and resting intermittently in shaded areas.<\/p>\n<p>Fishing in the company of another angler that sights the fish and instructs the cast is the best approach to fishing this beat successfully.<\/p>\n<p>Beat 3 is known to produce some large browns, with one large, almost\u00a0impassable, pool named the Eight Pounder Pool, and it wasn&#8217;t named that without reason.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/hcolumns]<\/p>\n<h3>Beat 4<\/h3>\n<p>[hcolumns]<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-md-4\">\n<p>[columnhelper col-md-4]<\/p>\n<p>Image Needed<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-8\">\n<p>[columnhelper col-md-8]<\/p>\n<p>Beat 4 is probably the most challenging, and most rewarding beat on the Witte.<\/p>\n<p>The beat starts at the large weir above a steep section of the gorge. Fish this weir and then commence upstream until a smaller weir. The water between these 2 weirs is seldom productive outside of the early season.<\/p>\n<p>From here, concentrate on the palmiet enclosed pools in the open valley. These pools can be very rewarding. Above this open valley, a series of smaller pools will lead you to a large open pool with a quartzite bank on the right-hand side, where the largest of four tributaries joins the Witte in the upper valley.<\/p>\n<p>Some memorable fish have come from the lower pools of this tributary and it is certainly worth a cast. This stream will also be your exit point and the end of Beat 4.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/hcolumns]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beat 3 [hcolumns] [columnhelper col-md-4] Image Needed [columnhelper col-md-8] Beat 3 is an almost strictly an early-season beat, as the flow drops rapidly in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":56,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/335\/revisions\/453"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\/CPS2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}