Autumn fishing

Howdy all.

My camera is still getting fixed if you can believe it... Olympus by the way, so if your considering getting one just know that if you ever need to claim warranty it might take a while...  rant over.

So Saturday morning broke and I find myself launching the yak into a meesly 1ft of surf at the Kings Beach boat ramp.  Even though i have a Hobie Pro Angler, not exactly the best ocean going vessel but I punched out over, not through the waves and made it out with nothing but wet feet.  Beautiful.  I lobbed out a Halco 120 lure in Quantas colours and an Atomic Plazo's soft plastic.  I paddled out around Brays rock and headed towards Moffat Beach when I saw a floatilla of kayak coming towards me.  I thought they might have the hot tip so I turned and took up position in the line.  Tuna was the hunt of the day and after a few reports of other kayak blokes getting into some during the previous weeks I thought it was my turn.  Turns out it was not my turn and after 3 or so hours tracking something like 6k's I thought I would give up and paddle home.  On the way back my Halco went off and I landed a nice little 40cm squire.  Dinner sorted.

After Saturday's dismal efforts I gave up on the offshore front and headed back to my secret spot once again.  I loaded up the Boathoist trailer with the PA and set out to be on the water by 5am.  It wasn't till about 7am when I finally hooked up a little, 40cm, Jewie.  I have been getting a fair few of these little guys around here and they definately are fun on light gear.  Anyway he went back to get bigger.  I turned a corner and lobbed my plastic at a pontoon and on the drop it was snaffled by something with some go.  The fish darted straight out into the middle of the channel and I thought this familiar behaviour would lead to me bringing up a trevally.  Sure enough about a 40cm trevor pops in to say hello.  He went back after a few snaps on the phone.  I turned to go home and tried the last pontoon and hooked up to another, much bigger trevor that gave me some grief for 5 mins on my 2kg rod.  Eventually he spat the hook and won his freedom so no pic!  I leave you now with some shots of the day on my phone, I might have to start taking out my SLR to get some quality shots while my waterproof camera is getting fixed...

Spot x turns it on again

Good afternoon all.

I have been out fishing a fair few times in the last few weeks but unfortunately my camera is off getting repaired so good pics are hard to come by.  Anyway, I braved the rains and wind on Sarturday morning and ventured out to my secret spot to find some fish.  I chose a different launch spot this time that gave me less distance to travel and a shorter drive.  I slipped the yak into the water at gentleman's hours with a slow 6.30am start.  The sky was still dark from the rain clouds but they were holding off dumping their fury on me just now.  I paddled past the first few pontoons flicking an Atomic Plazos prawn look a like on a fairly weighty jig head as it was a 5m drop and the run in tide was picking up quickly.  I slowly hopped the prawn off the bottom for 15 minutes gliding past the pontoons.  I sighted a pontoon located on the corner of the main chanel and the entrance to some canals and thought that looked like a prime spot to sit and wait if I was a jack.  Surely enough on the first drop the lure was smashed and my rod buckled but 1 second later the lure was spat out.  That's a good start I thought as I loaded up the second cast.  A bit further this time and I was hopping back directly under the pontoon when I could feel nibbles, like something was just having a bash at the lure.  Cast again and more bashing then bang off he went, I could feel the line rubbing on the oysters on the pontoon so I dipped my rod tip way into the drink to create more angle and pulled the sucker out.  After a short fight on 12lb gear this little guy came up to say hello.  I took some photos just as the rain started pelting down and chucked him back as I went to find some shelter under the nearest overhanging deck.

When the rain let up I was back in the same spot looking for more action.  There were another 4-5 big hits but the hooks kept pulling or they only had the tail of the plastic in their mouths so I only wound up with the 1.  Still very happy with that anyway!

On sunday my mate left a note for his wife saying "gone fishing - back at 10" and drove from Brisbane to my place for a 5am start.  He was a bit nervous the whole time as he knew the wife would blast him when he got back.  The sun rose early and the day was completely opposite to the one before without wind or rain.  This was my mates first time out fishing in a yak so I was pretty stocked to show him some spots, give him some plastics and eventually put him onto a fish.  The same pontoon I got the jack from he pulled out a nice little Jewie.  Later after flicking for a few hours he pulled a horse of a bream out from another pontoon.  It was an awesome morning hanging out and fishing with my mate.  Ill leave you with a few pics of the day.

Hooked Up Magazine Issue 15

Howdy all.  My fishing has been quiet sporadic lately but all the times I have been out I have landed some quality fish for a change.  Seems I have tapped into something here...  The camera I use has carked it and is back at the manufacturers getting repaired/replaced and will be about 2 weeks off.  I have taken out the video camera however so I might pull some frames from the videos and post up some puctures.

In the meantime - check out www.hookedupmagazine.com.au.  There is some ugly mug on the cover with his PB jewie.

Hope you are getting a few - and able to get some pictures of em!