[paffoh]

Finished work @ 5pm and raced home with the girlfriend to enjoy an early mid week yak on our local lake, you gotta love daylight savings! ( During the working week that is, id usually come home and have brew on the couch ).
Launched without incident ( Last weekend got a Stumpjumper through my finger! ) and started a troll using my new talisman deep diver and a plethora of the larger Kilalure pakrats.

A lot of weed about floating on the surface and a CRAP LOAD of Swans ripping up more along my fave spot, dosent sound like much of a problem but we were both lucky to troll more than 60 seconds without having weed dragged down onto our bibs ( and im talking over a 400m stretch ) so we decided to round the point in search of some Redfin.

Looking for the bubble trails we found an almost swirling abyss of bubble patches and after locating a likely spot i switched to the smaller pakrat and got an instant result on this 36cm Redfin amongst the Carp and bloody Swans... It was Claires time, she knew it, the day had come for her to land a fish from the yak and sure enough after no resistance and a flick at the final surge a small Redfin was aboard, needless to say she was stoked

Time was running out so we headed for the bay in fading light amazed that we could both fit in a 2 hr yak after a hard days work, I managed to bring in another small Redfin before we arrived safe on shore infront of the car... so addicted to these Kilalure pakrats! ( very similar to a Deception Shrimp, colour markings are almost a dead match ), great for natives and my number one lures of choice :lol:

'Shall we go again tommorow?' she said, smiling.
Ive got her hook, line and sinker... another yak here we come!

Hope you enjoyed the report!

 

[YakAtak]

Dammit, my secret is out, bloody Dodge. :evil:
Nice Report mate, well done, and congrats on getting in a 2 hour session after work, that's a great effort. Hope you have many more of those.

 

[bazzoo]

top report and nice piccies , love the sunset shot, great to have a fish with your other half especially if she is getting fish and is as keen as you, thanks for sharing

 

[Peril]

Well done guys. Good report too

 

[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.

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[paffoh]

Cheers guys!

Dads very keen for ago, his fitness should easily be up for it as on the lake it really is no effort at all under 10 knots, that and we gave him an excercise bike that he rides all the time.

This time im the captain of the boat!

Let you know how we go, if we get out it would be Sunday afternoon after i hopefully test some of the Wetspots kayaks @ Yarralumla bay.

 

[Dodge]

Paff nice conditions except for the weed problem and nice to see a couple of fish come to the yak.
Have yet to try an arvo session in the fresh, but many up here prefer then, rather than dawn on the local dam.
Those little killalures are great mate and Karl would be lost without his :wink:

 

[Fishing Man]

hey guys,

i see there is a lot of talk re the pakrats,
do any of you guys use the deception shrimps??
This is the lure that the pakrat is based on,

ive got shrimps but never purchased a pakrat,
i have noticed that the bib is wider and more rounded on the shrimp,

just wondered how they compared if anyone has used both,

one of the better looking lures anyways.

 

[Squidder]

Nice report Paffoh, and what beautifully marked redfin you have in LBG. The last one I caught (in Lake Eildon, Vic) was very pale in comparison.

 

[paffoh]

Fishing man,

Yeah mate i use both but prefer the pakrats by far, packaging and price seems to be better than Deceptions tax bag style... havent had much luck with them though, always seem to lose them to snags!

When im 80 something years old they will drain LBG, god knows ill be the first one out there, wheel chair or no wheel chair, just to get all my Shrimps & Pakrats & LCB's & Spinner baits & Stumpjumpers etc etc etc.

Bib seems bigger and more elongated on the Shrimp and more flexible than the Pakrat, not sure if thats a good thing or not, ill attatch some photos so you can see for yourself. ( run out of Shrimps atm, those bloody snags! ).