You will find cheap weekend car hire in Johannesburg, Pomona for combi rental. The combi is ideal for fishing trips. For those of you that are river or dam fishermen the can be no better place than the Vaal Dam, which is located on the Vaal River about 56km south of Johannesburg, near the town of Vereeniging. The word “Vaal” in Afrikaans means dirty or muddy and fishing here come with another set of problems. Most locals use a “policeman” a small bauble attached to the line so that one can see when a fish bites.

The Vaal dam lies on the Vaal River, which is one of South Africa's biggest rivers. The dam is unique in that three provinces make up the shoreline; these provinces are The Free State, Mpumalanga, and Gauteng. There are many pleasure resorts and camping areas in the dam’s vicinity. The dam itself is so big that the Guinness Book of Records has the yacht race as being the ""Largest Inland Yacht Race in the World"". The dam has its own island and unknown to many people, was used for secret meetings between politicians, during the apartheid era. The construction of Vaal Dam started during the depression and the dam was completed in 1938.