Report on yellows on fly easter weekend vaal river.

Hi fellow addicts,
Was down at the Vaal river on 27 and 28 March and Liefie (my wife) son Bennie (visiting over school holidays) and me myself dropped a few flies into the river to see what would happen.
We caught quite a few yellows but I noticed damaged patches on their bodies. Open sores and scales missing testify to the weak condition of the fish. I figure this is still the result of the floods, as after the floods(previously mentioned by myself) most of the Carp I saw as well as yellows and mudfish were damaged in the same way. 
Back to the day.
Caught most on a homemade wasp pattern (two colour types) yellow and orange. Also Liefie caught a lot using an adapted PS Nymph pattern I tied, whereby a gold yarn is used to wrap the rabbit hair dubbed body/thorax and wings made of White Zebra mane hair with two or three strands of flashing. Fish grab this at a fantastic speed.
Over the long weekend we camped next to the Vaal dam and did a bit of 'pap gooi' but only caught small carp and grass carp.
Monday 5 April found us back at the river but due to the good rains over the weekend, 2 sluice gates were opened with a discharge of 307,18 m3/sec, and dam capacity at 101.70%. Fishing at our old spot was virtually impossible and the heavy mist from the sluices not helping much.
We moved to 'Rapids Pradise' and tried to fish there but without success.
I noticed 2 scruffy guys with a Durban registration bakkie, using throwing nets and catchig all size yellows and mudfish in the shallow water.
As this type of fishing using nets (including jigging) disgusts me I decided a plan of action was nedded.
Making it very obvious and making sure they saw me, I walked up to their bakkie and took photos of the registration number, the contents of the bakkie, and then to make it real good, took a couple of photos of the two of them with their nets, using my cell phone camera.
Then, ignoring their 'looks that could kill', Liefie and I calmly walked passed them and started casting our flies.
In about 5 minutes, they had packed their braai(not yet used) and other belongings, and dashed off at a high speed.
Amazing what a cell phone can accomplish.
Also stopped a few 'jiggers' on the Water Affairs side of the river by pulling rank.
Can you believe they said they are 'flyfishing' and the fish are biting good on their naked 3 point hooks.
Appears the sluises will remain open till the weekend, so I will have to keep myself busy with tying a few flies. 
Cheers to all until next time
'forever young'