yakfishing

Anywhere theres water mate! Myself, I do botany bay sometimes but youve gotta watch the wind there. Berowra waters is bloody beautiful, middle harbour as suggested is good, I usually go to Roseville bridge, but try around clifton gardens aswell. Ive been wanting to try down in port hacking, but havent gotten up to it yet. And I'm mostly seen in Narrabeen lake as it's the easiest place when my back is playing up, its nice and quiet and theres plently of fish in there.

King, but Ive got no means of comparison. I caught my first last week, and jeez I'd never heard my reel sing like that before! He was undersize by 10cm but I was left with shaking hands and had a big grin on my face for..... hey, I'm still smiling now actually!

Well done mate. I was going to try Narra yesterday, but it was a bit too blowy, so I opted for Roseville bridge hoping for a bit more cover from the wind, but ended up with zippo. Shouldve braved the wind damnit!

I can vouch for there being fish in there! I fish there most of the time. Great spot for flatties (big buggers!), lots of bream, tho finding the biggns can be difficult, theres the odd jew (so I hear) nothing huge tho, whiting, blackies and various other critters. I usually fish the back of the lak cuz its quieter and more serene, Ive attached a map of where I launch. Around the entrance is good aswell tho and thats where the blacks hang out. Theres a good article on narra here http://www.fishraider.com.au/fishing-artic...abeen-lakes.php Great spot to get used to your yak, you dont want to jump into the hard stuff without knowing your limits and Narra is pretty forgiving. I'd suggest just take some plastics and flick around the weedbeds you should find some flatties.

I'm thinking of trying around roseville bridge tomorrow, she should be heading my way! If she's a smart cookie she'll stay away from any minnows with round grey heads that are twitching eratically Good work mate

Put my name down thanks guys Cheers

Good stuff Roberta! Couldn't think of anyone better to represent us crazy bastards

Nice flatty mate! Yeah I love the placcies, those gulps work but are giving me the shits at the moment cuz the bloody packets leak even when you seal them up, my appartment stinks of the stuff. I'm gonna be pissing bait off alltogether soon as my luring skills increase, there aint much you wont get on a lure nowadays and mucking around with bait is getting old

Sounds like you had a blast! 4WDing, camping and yakfishing - does it get any better than that?? I dont think so. Cant wait for the pics!

I never remember catching them as a kid. I just remember motoring back to the wharf in some river in Yamba and staring at the fish the whole way back, the flattys in particular. I remember sitting on a jetty, down the coast in the early morning and having my old granny bring us a cuppa from up the road. I remember fishing down at a creek by myself near a relo's place in the pissing rain and having the biggest bloody mozzies Ive ever seen landing on me. I dont remember all that much but I always remembered I LOOOOOVE FISHING! We never really did it that often but I'd always be dead keen when someone said "u wanna go fishing". Then we just stopped and didnt do it for years, untill about 6 years ago when my stepdad says "hey u wanna go fishing" to which I replied "hell yeah!" That brought all those great memories back and it tweaked in my mind hey I have a freakin car now I dont have to wait for my family to want to do it anymore, so I got back into it myself. So I think its fair to say that I loved the act of fishing and thats what got me hooked, but the one fish in particular I was thinking about all those times was the humble old flatty.

I prefer to see the big'ns swim, but the fisheries say its ok to take home 1 croc so I dont hold anything against anyone who does. Just as long as its for a feed, not a trophy.

I cant even imagine how big that looks like in real life, I think Im gonna freak out when/if I get one that size! I reckon it was flathead that got me into fishing, theyre such an intriguing fish. When I was a kid I used to just sit there and study them for the whole boat trip home. Good work mate and nice photo too.

Gday Craig, yeah Ive been wanting to try it out in Narra. I was thinking about having a heavier leader to form the loop and then down to the plastic (as extra insurance for flattys) then a lighter leader off the loop knot to tempt the bream. Im just trying to work out what lengths to use. What I was thinking was to have about 50cm from the loopknot to the plastic and then maybe 1.5m of lighter line off the loop to the bait. But then I got thinking if you had a hard fight going from the bait and the fish is going under the boat and everywhere, is there any chance that the plastcs jighead could nick the line and possibly loose you the fish? How do you do it anyway, if you dont mind my asking. Cheers

Haha ur gonna need to get a bigger ruler! Great work mate youve got some monster fillets there.

I just have an esky I put behind the seat, fill up the bottom with ice and your good to go. Only problem is when you get a big arse flatty its hard to squeeze them in. Youve also got all the space inside the yaks body accessed via the hatches, but it stinks inside mine, and I prefer putting the fish on ice straight away.

Theres no going back now, you understand? The addiction takes hold quick and swift. Soon you will want your yak permanently fused to your buttocks. Anyway you did better than my first time, I only managed a couple of bream and a flatty all undersize. I was still glowing tho, I reckon its at least triple the satisfaction of catching a fish from anywhere else.

Nerves crept in? I'd be shitting my pants! Bloody well done mate.

Mate that looks big to me considering my biggest is 10cm under that! Its amazing that 10cm adds 1 and a half times more weight cuz I think mine at 55cm was just about a kilo. I might start taking measurement across their heads and see how much they actually grow outwards cuz all that weights gotta go somewhere. Great work mate!

good job mate, theyre nice looking fish. I really wanna try those SX-40s Ive heard many good things, but unfortunatley I cant afford to feed them to flattys so its SPs all the way for me.

Emphasis on "less" chance I always forget when I go up creeks seeya Arpie

Haha mines not that fancy, but hey it does the job. Mines a complete budget job complete with stainless quick release holders being held in place with more pipe and gaffa tape so theres not much worth showing off

Do you have padding around the paddle or something when you do that? Thats the only thing I worry about when it comes to stealth with paddles, when you put the thing down it sounds so loud and it would be worse underwater. I dont even like opening my tacklebox in those situations. Maybe im just overly paranoid Sorry for hijacking your thread Jeff, but this is probably useful information for you too.

bugger I was gonna head down there and try and catch him tomorrow. Hopefully hes got some bigger friends waiting for me. Yeah not easy yak fishing in the wind but youre in the best craft to do so. Bloody good effort tho, so how many times did he spike you when you got him in the yak? If you ever see another outback in narra and a funny looking guy with a dragon tat on his leg, come and say Gday

No I wasnt implying anything other than a hobie is a lesser yak. The ONLY thing a hobie has over anything else is having your hands free and stealth, which for my kind of fishing is a huge advantage. If I was into trolling and more open water stuff, it wouldnt be a huge deal and Id prefer to paddle simply cuz I love to paddle, but trying to sneak up on a weedbed in a metre of very quiet backwater I cant even see as an option in a paddle yak (feel free to correct me if im wrong). Yeah theyre pricey but they suit my needs, and I agree - why spend more if you dont need to.

Its really easy. I use a matchstick to coil it around. http://www.animatedknots.com/dropperloop/i...imatedknots.com