where to start that is the question, how about 4.30am in the morning driving out of town we have been on the road for about ten minutes and it is starting to rain, half an hour in to the trip and its pissing down, what to do turn back or keep going..................................... stuff it been wet before and will be wet again, now I could go on about the condition of the road and what its like to drive down the mountain in the wet on shit tires but I wont so don't ask.
We arrived in south Durass at about 7am set the kayaks up and were on the water 15 minutes later.
This is to be our first real try at fishing from the yaks, we have had a bit of a play around in the lake here just to get things sorted out so to speak.
Paddling west north west from the ramp Brings us to the first spot to try I have no sounder on either of the yaks so we are relying on memory of trips gone by, the plan is for me to try lures and possum bait in this case (white bait) I will be using 3.5gram vibes.
Possum has her first bait in the water and is baiting the second outfit when the first goes off with a bang, its a top bream at about 40cm that she shows me with great delight this really gets me going not a touch after 20minutes of trying so i change to bait. in this time possum has landed one more bream and two flathead not as big but still legal now its my turn with a lizard it had to be at least 70cm and a flounder that would cover a dinner plate........................ well almost, they are starting to go off the bite so we move to another spot, in the poly that would have taken about two minutes..... on the yaks 10minutes but oooohhhh so quietly, possum puts out her bait and i pick up my casting stick first cast one very large flat one for me at around 500mm possum lands the biggest toad I have ever seen and insists I remove it for her and of course i do with great delight giving her a ribbing about the quality of her catch,........................... oooohhhhhhh no on my next cast,,,,,,,, yes that's right i get one as well, even bigger than hers, and did my possum get a very good laugh out of that.

Sorry there are no photos as I left the camera on the desk at home, boy did i get a wack over the ear for that

Paul

Good one Poly and Pam. Nice bream. Do you have to dangle your legs in the water to remain stable when helping her to remove the toad off the line?

hi possum no he didnt

possum if i were you i'd go out buy a pack of crayons & insist that poly chappy draw us a pic of the fish


How's your luck ?? i'd go out & buy a lottery ticket if i were ewe.

Read someware Yak eating Shuks dont like the rain, cause they dont like getting wet

http://www.google.com.au/#hl=en&source...5be805b675c06cc

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geeeee thanks for that fed

Paul

Well done Poly and Possum, maiden voyage, sort of, and fish in the yaks to christen them, can't ask for much better then that.
Have a look at one of those portable sounders where you can put the tranny on a stick or something to lower it into the water, and I think they have suction cap to attatch to things and run on aa batteries.

This post has been edited by nimrod: Mar 27 2011, 03:01 PM

I'm sure you will be safe Poly, all the stories about Bull sharks knocking people out of kayaks and eating pieces of them are probably exaggerations.

I know the one you are referring to frank, I have been told they don't work that well.
The one's i am looking at are the Eagle Cuda 350I fish finder gps combo or the Garmin 300C,
the Garmin dose not have a gps built in so i may have to look at a hand held gps unit to go with it.



I have cough sharks out of boats and off the stones, in time we May Have A Go At Getting One From The Yaks you know tie a bit of trace around my waist with a big hook attached with a nice bit of bait and see what happens, I know i can count on you Fed to back me up

Paul

Bugger that poly Shuks dont mind a bit of goose dangling on a 14/0 hook