[YakAtak]

Had to get up to the dam again to try the new spinnerbaits, didn't get there till 5am (mental note, check petrol the day before :roll: ) but the view on arrival was pretty special.

Headed out to the deep water and trolled one of the new spinnerbaits towards the bay, but not a touch, wandered all over the place, changed lures a few times, but only managed one yella on a beetlespin with a 3" pumpkinseed minnow grub. It went 45cms on the mat.

Was a very nice day on the water with some nice cloud cover to keep the temp down later in the morning.

 

[Magicrik]

hey karl
where did you get that mat/measure from?
thats is a nice looking fish you got there mate.

 

[YakAtak]

hey karl
where did you get that mat/measure from?
thats is a nice looking fish you got there mate.

Hey, thanks Rik, you can get the brag mats at most of the big tackle stores, I got mine from bcf for $15, club discount.

 

[Fishing Man]

Hey Karl,

mate your smashing the yellas up there,
well done great fish.

 

[Fishing Man]

what sorta depth did you pull that one from mate??

also did you paddle across that cod hole again?

 

[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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[YakAtak]

Thanks Red, just lucky timing really, as I was loading the yak I looked up and thought, whoa, gotta get a pic of that.

Ben, this yella was in pretty shallow water along a very shallow bank the drops into maybe 5m of water tops, caught me by surprise and expected to get a bass here as I got one of the small ones there the other day.
Went back to the 'cod' hole, but no luck.

 

[Dodge]

Another nice result Karl the yella looks lighter weight for its length, was that the case?

By the way while I was waving the drill around the swing on Monday I drilled out the existing side handles and replaced with 'Cirrus' style ones and much more compact now

 

[bazzoo]

Richo what are cirrus handels ?, any photos,? would be interested if more compact

 

[Dodge]

Richo what are cirrus handels ?, any photos,? would be interested if more compact

Baz I just coined a word, Karl calls his yak Cirrus.

I had knocked up handles from 50mm webbing for my swing, but when doing Cirrus, used 25mm webbing about 150mm long with a 25mm stainless washer and webbing folded under at each end and I used split tail rivets to secure through washer.

The narrow webbing is as good as the wide stuff and not as bulky in the cockpit walls on the swing, we mounted Karls on his gunwales as this pic
http://www.akff.net/forum/hosted_images ... m__260.jpg

 

[YakAtak]

Bob, yes mate, he was a light weight model for his length.

Re: handles, I still haven't fixed the problem with mine, two visits to bunnings and forgot to get the nuts and bolts, tried to re-rivet, but not gonna happen now that one has already pulled.
webbing size and position is perfect, just need a better way of securing them than the rivets. No problem getting a nut to the bolt, and it's high so not a leak risk at this stage. I'll get around to it eventually. :roll:

 

[shayned]

Great photo mate, good to see the new ride is still producing the goods. Are you doing the bli bli m&g this sunday?

 

[YakAtak]

Great photo mate, good to see the new ride is still producing the goods. Are you doing the bli bli m&g this sunday?

Thanks Shayne, can't make the M&G, no money, and got a christmas do on saturday night.

 

[Dodge]

tried to re-rivet, but not gonna happen now that one has already pulled.

Karl if you have small washers handy slip one on over the rivet underneath the gunwale and you can rivet OK with an ordinary rivet as the load will spread across the damaged hole like a split tail.

Mine were split tails and incredible to see the tails when drilled out, I saved a couple for show and tell, doubt that one of them could pull

 

[YakAtak]

Cheers Richo, I'll see what I can find, I had a go with a rivet I had at home, but think it wasn't quite long enough, but maybe I just need to clear the dags away a bit better from below the hole.

 

[bazzoo]

Karl ,that first sunrise photo is sensational, would make a great screen saver, also very envious of that bass, I WANT ONE :? :? :?

 

[YakAtak]

Thanks Baz, I can email you a wallpaper size copy of the photo if you like.
The fish does look a bit like a bass doesn't it, but it's definitely a yella.

 

[bazzoo]

Karl the wallpaper size would be great, and i had anotjher look ,this time with my glasses and by gosh your right, it is a yellar, dosnt matter , its a bloody nice fish , gee you guys know what your doing up there, all those bass being caught, NO RICHO PUT THAT GUN DOWN :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[YakAtak]

Karl the wallpaper size would be great, and i had anotjher look ,this time with my glasses and by gosh your right, it is a yellar, dosnt matter , its a bloody nice fish , gee you guys know what your doing up there, all those bass being caught, NO RICHO PUT THAT GUN DOWN :lol: :lol: :lol:

:lol: PM me your email address mate and I'll send you the pic. 1024 x 168 ?

 

[Dodge]

NO RICHO PUT THAT GUN DOWN :lol: :lol: :lol:

Karl don't send him any pics he's a hurtful prick :lol: :lol: