Watsons bay donuts with no nuts

[reubs]

Hey all,

Went for a fish on the full moon on Friday night...fishing around Watsons bay with servo prawns...in the past servo prawns have done the most damage around these parts for me so I was surprised when I was dangling them infront of a school of yakkas that not even they were interested! I couldn't be bothered switching back to plastics and after feeding the fish a bag of prawns only to watch them ignore them I decided it was time to head home!

Reubs

[The Incredible Hull]

Reubs, I was there on Saturday night, and found the exact same. We could visually see the yakkas, so it wasn't like there weren't there! I was dangling tiny pilie pieces right in front of their faces and they wouldn't take it. A few other people were using mince meat and got zero too.

Edited September 22, 2013 by The Incredible Hull

[Yowie]

The idea is to use a tiny hook, of a suicide pattern, on a light line and cover the hook with the bait. Drop in a bit of mushed bread, and drop your bait amongst the bread. Sometimes a small piece of bread on the hook will do the trick.

If you can see the fish, they can probably see you staring at them.

[Twinfisher 4.9]

I think with yakkas, burley is the key to get them fired up and for that either mashed pillies or the old faithful, grated potato (though it does make them a bit crook, but an Aspro dissolvable in the bait tank will fix that ). Strange but true!

[sam bros]

been finding it hard to catch the yakka as well lately

lets see if it gets better as summer approaches

[iconnolly]

The day and especially the night of the full moon are notoriously bad for all fishing in my experience.

Not sure if it's the shadows that result from us moving around with the moon behind us or what.

Ditto on berley and small hooks. The burley needs to be constant if possible. eg a frozen lump of breadcrumbs, tuna oil and prawn heads dangled in the water creating a steady light stream of tiny particles. It depend of course on currents and/or wave motion. However a handful of wet bread tossed in a few seconds before your line works well too. The yakkas get into a frenzy and don't notice that the bit of "free food" with the hook in it is any different to the rest.

reeltired

[The Incredible Hull]

Just to clarify, the thread was created under the assumption that we have caught yakkas in the past.

I.e. In that location I've caught 10 yakkas in 10 minutes in the past, quite frequently I might add.

In addition, there have been previous posts about others having trouble finding\catching yakkas.