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FG Tackle, 64 Fabriek Street, Gants, Strand (2026)

18/08/2025

You win some, you lose some, it was a weekend where South Africans just had to stand strong and roll with the punches. Fortunately the Steenies had a better game plan this weekend. I was doing a quick recce for a follow up session on Friday eve. It was my first cast on a bustling stretch of beach in Hermanus. I am not one for fishing amongst crowds, but it was so cool to just stand there and have so many doggies come and greet me, wagging tails everywhere !
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⁣I was standing deep in thought watching a pretty cool sun set and I had one of the best bites I’ve had in a while, no funny business, down the hatch and straight into 5th gear, so uit die hand uit. Ey it’s good when they do that. Fishing solo, I had to flag down a passer by for a quick snap before putting it back. It turned out to be such a lekker guy and a fisherman too! Thank you Louis Loubser for capturing the moment and sharing the joy. 85cm FL 91TL
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14/08/2025

When faced with unfamiliar fishing grounds it’s best to go with a mate that’s full of humour, more importantly, a fit friend that’s full of humour. When the miles drag by and the bite is slow, it’s morale that floats the day. kicking my ass uphill, downhill and behind the rod. Eating the smallest piece of redbait, a mean Mr. Cracker joined PJ to further my beating for the day, leaving me speaking in tongues to the fishing gods. Bloody Devil fish. So I posed with PJ’s fish to feel better about myself. 😂 It’s so good to drop the seriousness, head out to the waters edge with a good friend and share the blood, sweat and jokes it takes to catch these fish.⁣
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⁣And if that’s not enough, to add insult to injury, on reaching base, PJ quickly lit a fire and nursed me with my favourite food on this planet. In that moment, he might as well have given me a bib and a feeding chair because I was about eat that damn braaibroodjie like it was my first one ever. Yes, you’ve heard it on the radio, you’ve seen it on a TV show, your moms braaibroodjie ain’t coming close to a braaibroodjie. ⁣
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⁣Thanks for being the legend you are 👊👊⁣
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13/08/2025

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⁣Oooohhh the Galjoen Derby ! Sadly the time has come for our team to step down from the podium but what a battle between teams it was. This was a Derby to remember as we are starting to see insane depth and skill coming from teams out of the Cape who were hell bent on producing results and produced they did!⁣
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⁣There is always such a stigma surrounding the prowess of local teams but it was awesome to see how teams like Scratchers and Deep South dispelled that myth fishing an absolute blinder of a Derby, well done guys 🍻 Happy Family taking the day with an impressive margin of 5kg between them and Deep South! Geez Happy Family well done !!⁣
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⁣Another little name to mention that’s doing big things is a youngster by the name of Sacha Moran. (We have looked for you on socials so give us a wave if you read this.) Sacha apparently took a full sweep under juniors cleaning up and making a name for himself! Now that’s what the platform of the Galjoen Derby is all about ! Well done Sacha !!⁣
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⁣To the 3 teams who pushed us off the podium placing team FG Tackle 4th, we congratulate you on a Derby well fished, we felt the wrath of your efforts and we take our hats off. ⁣
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⁣And then our beloved Bok !!!! Hendricho Lesch jou yster, our team member who managed to place 1st in the heaviest bag devision with a total of 7.57kg !! Well done Hen you’re a machine man !! ⁣
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⁣With info flowing in from various sources we will follow up this post with more specifics and results that are about to be released to highlight another great Stilbaai Galjoen Derby ! ⁣
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08/08/2025

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⁣ #3 Xander “Zoo Look” de Beer⁣
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⁣Husband, father of two and YouTube fishing cult leader, the man needs no introduction. If fishing was a crime you’d be looking at the Charles Manson of the game. Rumour has it that on the last Derby he was found hovering over his bed chanting “please like and subscribe, hit like and subscribe…” wtf. A powerful angler draped in more fishing accolades than a war lord, he is known as the teams impact player, unpredictable and dangerous, even to himself. If on any given Derby Xander catches one Galjoen per rod that he carries with him, we’d win it every time. A massive contributor to the sport of angling in South Africa, an amazing father, a generous good hearted human and our favourite South African YouTube angling star, Xander we wish you a fantastic Derby ! ⁣
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⁣Sponsor: Assassin Anglers ⁣
⁣Ability to go fishing with one rod: Zero ⁣
⁣Ability to reach the cookie jar on the top shelf: Zero ⁣
⁣Ability to melt sinkers: Zero ⁣
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08/08/2025

#4 Ben Moelich⁣
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⁣Should have played rugby for the Bokke but fell hard to a fish addiction. We’re still trying to figure out if he actually likes fishing or just eating fish. A gentle dainty man, loves flowers and long walks on the beach. Probably consumes more fish than 3 Hout Bay seals could in a lifetime. We have to check his bag regularly on the derby to make sure he doesn’t sneak one home. Also the teams musician and entertainer, goes by the pseudonym of Oom Dik Tollie, a fictional character that emerges at the best of times. Pure art, pure class, he’s the papa of the team making sure the boys are well fed and in bed on time before the big day. ⁣
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⁣Sponsor: Gavascon / Mybulen ⁣
⁣Nickname: Oom Dik Tollie⁣
⁣Favourite drink: double mybulen and Gaviscon two blocks of Rennies ⁣
⁣Ability to release a Galjoen. Slim to none.⁣
⁣Ability to touch his toes while standing: zero⁣
⁣Ability to see his toes when standing: zero ⁣
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08/08/2025

#5 Riaan La Grange

A more passionate Galjoen angler would be hard to find. A silent Assassin with more secret spots than the late Bin Laden. Once the heartthrob of Puffies, he would be a big reason why Vrystaat fathers would rarely let their daughters out after dark. Skomfaan moves quick, knowing the ins and outs of every little fishing spot, turning over more water than a Vrystaater trying to right himself in a shorebreak at Jongensfontein. A work horse, an absolute connoisseur of redbait, an incredible angler that has shown the greatest consistency in the history of the team. Now married and poses no threat to Vrystaat cherries.

Sponsor: FG Tackle / Choice
Favourite Drink: Zamalek
Ability to go to Puffies on his own: Zero

07/08/2025

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⁣⁣ #6 Pieter Du Toit ⁣⁣
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⁣⁣Not sure how we found him but we are extremely happy to have him in our team. He’s like the but without the helmet, very little is known about this man but he is known!! Fortunately we only care about two things and that’s his ability to make a Galjoen and an angry Gansbaaier surrender, two vital skills any survivalist should have. From the heart of the Overberg, we claim this man as our own. A big man with a bigger heart and a profoundly humble nature, here to balance out the rest of the ego’s in our team. If you can catch Galjoen in the Overberg, you can catch them anywhere… wie maak vir Gansbaai Lekker 💪🏽⁣⁣
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⁣⁣Thank you for all your contributions and span gees !! Legend 🍻⁣⁣
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07/08/2025

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⁣Player #2 Eckart Nel ⁣
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⁣While we wouldn’t be choosing Eckart to represent us at the Two Oceans marathon, he is undeniably one seriously talented angler with a profound love of muffins, or is the muffin something else ? Anyway, while some may argue that his angling success’ are based on luck, he sure as hell practices enough for preparedness to meet opportunity. If there was a Ski Boat division for the Galjoen Derby we’re sure he’d be on it. Born with a horseshoe up his ass, we snatched up Eckart pretty quick to spread the luck across the team. Always smiling and an absolute frieken pleasure to be around, he slots right in with the rest of the legends that make up this team. A Stilbaai local through and through with phenomenal catches behind his name. He is our favourite man. As the newest member of the group, the ingestion of a mature redbait head now stands between him and his team kit… will we see a video ? ⁣
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⁣Also an absolute massive thanks to this legend for his extreme dedication to the sport and this event, not many people realise the hard work that goes into organising these events and is one of the pillars in organising the 31st Stilbaai Galjoen Derby 🍻 wishing you a great Derby Eckard 💪🏽⁣
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⁣Sponsor: Fishman / Daiwa / Ina Parmaan⁣
⁣Nickname: Muffin Man ⁣
⁣Current ability to run 100m in under 20 seconds: sketchy ⁣
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07/08/2025

Part 4-10: The Team ⁣
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⁣Without further ado, the 2025 FG Tackle Galjoen Stilbaai Derby team introduction. ⁣
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⁣Player #1 - Hendricho Lesch ⁣
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⁣While we won’t be submitting Hendricho for a spelling bee, we harvest instead the man’s phenomenal fishing talent as an energetic weapon in the team. While all humans share a certain percentage of genetic make up with fish, Hendricho’s DNA borders dangerously close to making him an exhibit in the . Before we get flagged for sponsoring a Lia Thomas sort of story, SASAA has cleared Hendricho as “f****n visserig,” and eligible to compete. ⁣
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⁣With an ability to fish directly over structure that 110% of anglers will deem ridiculous and impossible, his unique style of attacking the impossible makes him irreplaceable, it’s like possessing a fly half that feels comfortable from his own 22. If a doctorates degree in scratch angling was something, we think Hen would have it. Hendricho also showcases wizardry when it comes to providing redbait bordering on class A contraband, at times so powerful it is said to bring down the property value in his neighbourhood. An absolute magician at finding fish in less than favourable conditions, Hendricho is a pivotal role player in the success of this team, ons yster ons Bok ! ⁣
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⁣Sponsor: FG Tackle / PENN⁣
⁣Nickname: Kaasmuis / Bok ⁣
⁣Drink: Cream Soda ⁣
⁣Ability to spell “onomatopoeia:” Zero⁣
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06/08/2025

Part 3: Magic potion ⁣
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⁣As a mass of Galjoen Derby competitors descend upon and begin to unpack their gear and bait, a startling scent of these magic potions can be noted up-wind… in neighbouring towns. Buckets and bottles that hiss like they contain pi**ed off puff adders, swollen to the brink of disaster are the treasures they bring to this party. With expressions like they were watching somebody about to diffuse a landmine with a braai tong, onlookers take two steps back as the lid of the first bucket is cracked. When the kids don’t know if they should cup their ears or mouths and the vrouens vloek while grabbing their green faced swollen cheeked children to flee indoors, well, then you know you’ve done a good job on the bait 👍⁣
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⁣In all fairness, the sheer unruly violence of this scent will have a fresh coat of Dulux peel from a wall. The flowers in neighbouring gardens wilt and wither on impact as oxygen levels in the immediate vicinity are now steadily being depleted. Consequently the bee’s leave only to be replaced with the hum of a 1000kVA transformer as every fly in a 2km radius turns into a homing missile as they kamakaze these bait buckets. “Een blougat brommer dronk van die rooiaas fumes vlieg die emmer skoon mis en slat n duik in ou Cola se Stallion.” Matured redbait has the impressive force to make a brown hyena gag. Street dogs take chunking to the hills snapping aggressively at thin air behind them, dazed and confused at the power of the new dog in town. Even the Hadidas astonishingly flee in absolute bloody silence, utterly offended as they escape the threat of the green mushroom cloud rolling over Stilbaai. ⁣
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⁣Now can you picture a team of hardened salted anglers smiling wider at the sight of these buckets than they did at their first born ? Snarling through foam lined moustaches, these are the manne, the 2025 FG Tackle Galjoen Derby team, upholding culture and a level of masculinity that could effortlessly have Greta Thunberg purchase her own straight jacket from Shein. How dare you! ⁣
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05/08/2025

Part 2: The gathering ⁣
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⁣Whether by little or a lot, the effects of marriages and mortgages have tamed even the wildest of the salted bunch, but with more moves than a can of worms it must be known, the okes are professionals. Planning a full scale team assault on the Hessequa’s Galjoen population while juggling the intricacies of modern day living is their thing. Keeping classified radio active chemistry experiments on the property hidden from the missis and neighbours, not so much… ⁣
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⁣A WhatsApp group chat that was activated only days after the last Derby has steamrolled through a couple thousand messages and exactly one year later, the reelings have been treffed and the okes are now reg for the Derby. ⁣
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⁣While some would argue that it takes a cocktail of beverages to super ignite the flame that burns inside of these primitive men, you know, that little vlammetjie suppressed by modern ideology, well it’s not only brandy and bonfires that gets it going… It’s the gathering on day one of the Derby that does it. That poor vlammetjie pops like an old gas geyser when old friends unite and open the taps. To marvel at the most nuclear redbait collected from the 4 corners of the Western Cape is a privilege for some, and they will raise their glasses at upholding tradition and a culture. With enough force to blow your hair back, the Stilbaai Galjoen Derby is now in motion…. ⁣to be continued.
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