A private trout estate on the cool Mpumalanga highveld
The Lochs is a shareblock estate of twenty stands set across 352 hectares of highveld farmland in the Kleinspruit valley, on Mpumalanga's Highlands Meander. Two hours from Pretoria and Johannesburg and twenty-five minutes from Dullstroom. A resident farm manager looks after the estate year-round.
The estate is kept simple on purpose: water, grassland and quiet.
Five dams lie across the estate, the largest spanning twenty hectares of open water. Four are stocked with trout most of the year, outside the summer months.
Still-water fly fishing on the stocked dams, through all seasons of the highveld year.
Fishing rights on four to five kilometres of river on a neighbouring farm: pools, cascades and a fifty-metre waterfall.
Farm roads and the adjacent forestry areas give long, quiet routes for walking and riding.
Summer thunderstorms and wildflowers, misty mornings on the water, and crisp, clear winter days with frost on the veld.
A resident farm manager and staff of three maintain the dams, roads and grounds throughout the year.