14 years ago, Mike Poplett and Bells Whisky decided that they were able to fill a need in Trout Fishermen lives. The beautiful Kamberg Valley has awesome dams, privately stocked for the exclusive use of the visitors to the Kamberg. Mike decided that once a year the Kamberg would come alive to the sounds of the merriment of Whisky and the fishing stories that were told and retold many many times around the fire and friend Wheel and Plough Pub in the Kamberg Valley Association (Kamberg Farmers' Association). The first Kamberg Trout Festival set a standard for the years to come. Each year the fishermen book well in advance, many being disappointed as the Festival is booked out very quickly. The fishermen come not only for the fantastic fishing, but for the Kamberg Karma. The friendlyness of the community and the good home cooking together with the socials held in the Wheel and Plough every evening reaffirm friendships and the comaraderie that fishermen need to add value to their day of fishing. Often the mornings are bitterly cold, then warming up to sunburn heat and ending up with bitterly cold evenings. Fish are weighed in with much banter and mirth, ooh's and aaah's and the exchange of fishing stories. Once the evening meal has warmed the stomach's of the entrants, the warmth of the community is again experienced in the conversations. When mother nature has been kind, the Kamberg Trout Festival has been able to use up to 30 dams, which means that the smaller dams do not suffer the rod pressure giving the fishermen better fishing. So lets hope that Mother Nature looks kindly on the Kamberg Valley for the next 12 years.

Results from 2006 Kamberg Trout Festival:
Biggest Fish:
1st: Gillies McDavid - 4.025 kg - Longclaw Dam
2nd: Matt Tibenham - 3.005 kg - Ballina Bottom Dam
3rd: Matt Tibernham - 2.985 kg - Stagstones Dam
4th: Morgan Holmes - 2.760 kg - Jackal Dam
5th: Justin Annels - 2.610 kg - Sourveldt Bottom

Session Prizes:
1st Session: Greg Houghton - 2.530 kg - Riverside Top
2nd Session - Erwin Bursik - 2.560 kg - Little Kariba
3rd Session - Andre Postma - 2.480 kg - Longclaw Dam
4th Session - Morgan Holmes - 2.450 - Kariba Dam
5th Session - Peter Butland - 1,970 - Airstrip Dam

Biggest Brown:
Warren Black -1.710kg East Meshlyn
Ladies:
Denise Hills - 2.470 - African Shell Duck
Wally Award:
Warren Black

Dam Owners top 5:
1st: Longclaw - Stuart Browne
2nd: Ballina Bottom - George Muller
3rd: Stagstones - Ed Erskine
4th: Jackal - Stuart Browne
5th: Sourveldt Bottom - John Armstrong

Results from 2005 Kamberg Trout Festival:
Session Prizes:
1st Session: Craig McFarlane - Big Dam - 2.22 kg
2nd Session: David Poole - Little Kariba - 2.27 kg
3rd Session: Henk Coetzee - Riverside Top - 2.27 kg
4th Session: Geoff Taylor - Forest Lodge - 1.99 kg
5th Session: Trevor Shuttleworth - Sourvelt Top - 2.23 kg

Ladies:
Denise Hills - Big Dam - 2.06 kg

River Fishing:
Grant Fouche - Riverside - 35 cm

Dam Owners:
1st: Pete Moller - Riverside
2nd: Stuart Browne - Longclaw
3rd: Peter March - Little Kariba
4th: John Armstrong - Sourveldt
5th: Paul Pringle - Big Dam

Results from 2004 Kamberg Trout Festival:
Sessions Prizes:
1st Session: M. Brenkenridge - 2.039 kg - Forest Lodge
2nd Session: Henk Coetzee - 1.90 kg - Riverside Top
3rd Session: C. Myburg - 2.00 kg - Big Dam
4th Session: G. Taylor - 1.57 kg - Little Kariba
5th Session: B. Hughes - 2.02 kg - Uitzicht

Biggest Fish:
1st: 2.71 kg - Brandon Karg - Highmore
2nd: 2.49 kg - Matt Sanders - Sourveldt Top
3rd: 2.33 kg - Trevor Shuttleworth - Forest Lodge
4th: 2.32 kg - Mark Arbuthnot - Highmore
5th: 2.22 kg - D. Brown - Sourveldt Top

Ladies:
Janine Janse van Rensburg 1.46 kg - Airstrip.