[YakAtak]

I had to go to a tourism seminar in fernvale today, finished at 4pm, yak was on the car, what else would I do but drive to the nearest water?
I launched at twin bridges just outside of town and dropped a few things in the cockpit, no rod holders and no rear well makes life a bit interesting. I started by flicking a few gulps around, thought I felt a few touches, but the snags were very thick, a LOT of timber in this part of the river.
I decided to switch to surface lures and tied on a Tailor Made surface walker which attracted no interest.
Changed to the new Rapala skitter pop and had a few rises early on, but no contact. By this time the daylight was starting to fade and I started thinking about heading off when I spied a back water with some good overhang and snags, I paddled towards it and cast deep into the back water. Almost immediately there was a splash near the lure, and another, and then nothing. Cast again, a bit deeper this time, twitch twitch and I was on, but knew it wasn't anything big. In came a healthy little bass. It was nothing exciting, but I was stoked, my first fish from the kayak, first bass on a surface lure and first bass outside of an impoundment.

 

[Peril]

Good stuff Karl. Very nice way to christen the yak

 

[Jeffo]

well done mate, plenty of good results

Cheers

Jeffo

 

[ms]

Well done cant wait to get my frist fish from a yak maybe this weekend.

 

[hairymick]

Well done Karl, a wild bass, any wild bass is a good one. it can only be that much better for you with so many firsts in the one trip.

 

[Dodge]

Good onya Karl good to see you clicked on the first trip thats got to be a good omen for the scupper pro future :wink:

 

[RedPhoenix]

Unfortunately, due to the change in ownership of this web site and the lack of response by the owners to my requests to remove my email address from all administrative-level notifications and functionality, I have decided to remove my posts on AKFF. Thank you for the great times, the fantastic learning experiences and the many many fish. If you are desperate for the old content of this particular post, it is available below base64 encoded and bzip2 compressed.

Red.

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[YakAtak]

Good onya Karl good to see you clicked on the first trip thats got to be a good omen for the scupper pro future :wink:

Yeah Bob, it's a great boat, I love it, just need to fit it out.

Good one Karl. Any other piccies of the yak yet?
Red.

Sorry mate, I thought I had taken a few of her sitting on the bank, but they were not there, I'll take a few tomorrow. I was waiting till it was fitted out, but before and after shots are always good. 8)

 

[bazzoo]

karl, congratulations mate, great to see you love the kayak already, didnt take you long to christen it pal , do you strap your knife to your leg?,, sounds like a good idea , hadnt thought of it , hopefully , sea trials will begin on my espri tomorrow

 

[YakAtak]

good to hear you'll be out on the new platform soon Baz, sure you'll love it as much as I did my Espri.
Re: the knife, it's a handy place to store the knife for easy access, if you were unfortunate enough to get rolled then the knife stays with you incase you become tangled in line or anchor rope etc. I have an interesting outline of mine burnt into my shin at the moment from inadequet application of sunscreen at fraser.

 

[fishinswing]

Top fish Karl for your first wild bass. You also got to blood the the new kayak. Well done and can't wait to see it at Cressbrook.