yakfishing

I've got a Symetre with a spare spool but the spare doesnt have the grease on the top metal washer that my other reels have. Is it some special kind or is it just the same grease you use in the rest of the reel?

beautiful fish there that's a solid kingy! I've just finished an upgrade of my gear to chase kings so hopfully the first off the yak isn't too far away.

nice ones there Luke, bummer I couldn't join you. I wanted to get out this morning but my old mans bought a yak so were working on the trailer to take 2 yaks. Should be finished this morning but then we've gotta work on the car! Hopefully I'll get out tomorrow Roberta - I've almost done that! I had to waste 10 mins of valuable fishing time to turn around and go back to get it. I was pretty annoyed at that and I'd have been fuming if I got all the way out to narra!

Thanks mate. Yeah there are so many good looking snags and structure up there we didn't even go that far from the ramp. There were some nice sandy dropoffs for the flatties too.

Myself and Luderick Luke had a fun little harbour session early this morning on plastics. I was out for an hour before luke got there and as usual was struggling with the bream tho it's only my 4th time trying plastics on them. Luke turned up and is onto his first in the first 5 minutes!! I persisted with my little flick bait for a bit longer and finally decided to switch to what luke was using - a Gulp shrimp in new penny and soon after a nice bream grabs and I land my first legal on plastic In all the excitement I forgot to measure but we guessed at around 31cm. It didnt take Luke long to outdo me and he pulls a beauty at 35cm I had a quick break to go see the chiro while Luke fished on and cleaned up on many bream and a nice flatty at 45cm. I got back for the last of the runout and we both managed a couple of flattys around 46 - 47cm on squidgy fish - silver fox and black & gold. Heading back Luke manages a little flounder on a gulp shrimp in nuclear chook to wrap up a good session. Not that many fish for me but I'm stocked with a 31cm bream as my first legal on plastic, and only 2nd one caught.

I have recently changed the handle to wind with my left for the fish that hit as soon as the lure hits the water. Doesn't take long I just practiced at home while watching tv (obviously not rigged up) you get the feel after a couple of nights doing that. Practice lifting and winding down too as this is more awkward than just winding. Well worth it I reckon

Shotgun. If your serious mate talk to people who have tried I wouldn't be jumping into that head first.

Nah, two different sharks. The whaler is pointier, the bull more stocky Beware murky water wherever you are if it is somewhere connected to the ocean, they like hunting in the low viz for a good reason.

Put a light jighead on them, make sure they swim straight and bream, whiting and flathead will hit them as well as many other estuary ooglies. I'm a bit sick of bloody gulps tho, there's too many that come out the packs (even the tubs) deformed and bloody hard, if not impossible to get to swim right. But when theyre right they are good and P/seed is a gun colour in the esturies.

Oh too right I re-use everything I can, everythings bloody expensive for me at the moment. And besides that, I just walk down to the harbour some days and have a quick flick for 30 mins, I'm definately not not gonna chuck the jighead or the plastic after that. Cheers fellas

Good stuff mate. Anything of decent size?

Yeah I remember them when I used to have a tank. Never kept em tho

Looks a bit like a silver mono, also called a silver batfish http://www.scuba-equipment-usa.com/marine/...argenteus).html Quite a popular aquarium fish. http://www.fishandtips.com/displaydb.php?ID=12

I forgot to ask at the SP clinic, but can you leave the jighead in the SP after using it in saltwater, and just rinse it off or soak it in fresh to stop it rusting? Not with gulps or other juiced up ones, but squidgies and the like. Or is it better to take them off and WD-40 the jigheads? cheers

Onya guys!

Thanks a lot everyone who volunteered their time, it is much appreciated. Had a great day and learned a lot. Cheers

Great day thanks for that guys. I was in Andrews group and learned good bit of info. Unfortunately couln't convert it to anything (aside from some now tailess grubs) but have plenty more tricks to try on those breambos next time. Good to see everyone today Cheers

Oooh yeah

Silver trevs mate. Nice and fresh, cant go wrong. Thanks 4 the gulp info btw

Nice work mate theyre awesome looking fish. mate my advise is cover up, you will get burnt to the shithouse on a yak. I have long sleves, long pants and a wide brimmed hat, and I slop the suncreen on my face and any exposed areas. I hate having to do it, Im a tshirt and shorts guy and suncreen pisses me off, but getting burnt sucks more. Sorry about the rant. Once again well done mate!

The only way you can use those packets and not have them leak is if you keep em up right. Like hottyscottys idea, if you file them all away in a box up the right way and make sure the box is always the right way up, then no problemo. Doesnt work for me cuz I want them in a backpack sometimes to walk down to the water, and a box digging into my back isnt very comfortable. I just bought a tub of gulp (dont use that, they leak too), tipped all the juice into a dolmio pasta sauce container and stick all my patterns in there. The gulps wont leak into eachother. Its still a problem fishing them out of there tho if the one you want is at the bottom, but someone mentioned a little container with a strainer inside it so when you want something you just pull the strainer out and take your pick of the plastic minus the juice. Great idea but Im still looking for them.

looks like fun mate. Nice pics

Depends where I'm fishing. If I'm fishing somewhere theres naturally a strong tidal current or other type of water flow then a fast drift wouldn't be a problem. I usually fish narra lake where there is little to no current so I think a bait zooming along at such a fast speed would look pretty unnatural.

nicely done mate! I'm thinking of making myself a sea anchor to slow the drift when its that windy, I do have an anchor but it would stop the drift altogether. If you want to make one yourself all you need is a coat hanger and one of those green shopping bags you get at woolies for a dollar. And rope obviously

I'm hanging to hit Narra again and I'd be happy to catch up and show you around the place, but I'm not gonna be able to get there for a couple of weeks I think. I'm going to the SP workshop next sunday, and saturday I'm busy, but the weekend after that I'll drop u a PM and see if youre keen. I'm no expert tho, I'm only just getting into SPs, and persistent back problems have kept off the yak for tooooooooooo long What I usually do is drift with a couple of baits out the side and usually find some bream and flattys. I like the pipeclay pt area (it should say it on the map) but theres plently of other places - creek mouths, even up the creeks can be good. I dont know if you saw my other post I replied to you about narra but check out this article if you havn't already http://www.fishraider.com.au/fishing-artic...abeen-lakes.php I talk to all the yak fishers I come across, but I'll look out for a raider sticker in the mean time! Ive got a little pirate flag for mine but I dont have a flag "pole" yet, but I should stick out like dogs balls when Ive got it up!