[WayneD]

Me and two friends decided to brave the winds and strong tides to go for a paddle in the Nerang in the afternoon. We launched about 3.30 pm from the Capri Bridge boat ramp and paddled down around Chevron Island and back to the ramp.

From the ramp I was trolling my newly acquired sx-48. After about 5 mins we came across some very uneven bottom on the sounder. Jumping from 1m-3m, prime flathead territory I thought to myself. About 15 seconds later and I was on. A nice 56cm specimen and when I got him beside me I thought, where is my lure? After a nervous few goes at grabbing him by the lip I finally had him on board (note to self, need to get a landing net before next trip out). The lure was so far down his gob that I had to keep him to get back my lure ($18 worth) and pull it out through his gills. I have never killed a fish on the kayak before (don't eat fish) and it makes it pretty messy, blood everywhere.

Finished the rest of the trip with only one other small flatty but a nice afternoon out even if it was tough paddling into the wind and tide.

No photo, I took the camera but the wife had taken the memory card out to get some photos printed and never put it back in :roll:

 

[Dodge]

Nice lizard Wayne.

A bloke I knew used to regularly take jacks from under the Capri Bridge [I think second pylon from highway end] using bait, so may be worthwhile trying sometime when in the area.

There used to be a few shopping trolleys dumped from the bridge so they have now made a sort of weedy hideaway for bait.

 

[spooled1]

Heard Nuggets podcast the other day and he said there are thousands of bull sharks in Nerang river right now.

Be careful or hunt them down, they are agro buggers.

Good onya for braving the elements