[Yakabe]

Because my wife's Christmas show was in Ardrossan, I thought it may be a good idea to throw on the Yak as it is so close to Price.

The show was a good one, and the next day, up early to hit the water. Thankfully I ended my drinking session early enough that I felt really good. Was on the water at 7am and the tide was very full. I headed into the estuary system and found the water well above the banks and well into the mangroves. When it is this full most of the fish will feed in amongst the mangroves, so they are not as easy to find. I fished the system for a short while for no return.

I decided to head out and make a run for home. Because there was so much water, the water was quite deep along the banks of the main creek, so I chucked on an SX40, and stuck close to the mangroves. First 10 strokes, first bream into the yak. Not huge but just legal. Next ten strokes, another bream in the yak. Again about the same size. Lure out again and this time a good sized mullet. Well this continued all the way back to the ramp. At the end I caught about 6 bream, only one undersized, but the size was small. And 5 mullet. Strangely I left them biting. I had no reason to get home, but decided I had had enough. :?

For the SA boys, I was talking to a local about the mulloway, and got some great tips and places to fish in there. So it might be about time we had a mulloway session :idea:

Sorry no pics.

Yakabe.

 

[Peril]

Good one Yakabe.

How on earth do you get mullet to take lures? Only seen one caught that way and it was foul-hooked. Great fight though.

 

[Yakabe]

It's a mystery to me too Peril. One can't complain as they put up a great fight.

Yakabe.

 

[fisher]

Sounds like a great trip Yakabe. I thought that creek would have been great at high tide - did you see any activity at all in the creek? I'm in for a mulloway trip!

 

[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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[Squidder]

Nice result Yakabe, I agree with the other guys those mullet are a great catch on lure. :wink: I love em on the table too.

I wasn't sure quite what was going on when I saw the title of this trip report, because Price is actually my surname - I didn't know it was a suburb in SA! :shock:

 

[Yakabe]

Thanks fellas.

Quote Red "Did you use the SX40, poppers or SP's around the mangroves?"

Red, While in the smaller creeks, I was using SP's namely Gulp worms, minnows etc, Squidgie wrigglers etc, as well as SX40. On the way home I was using an SX40 on a very slow troll. Just fast enough to get some action from the rod tip. The water was in places, less than a meter deep, so slow speed was enough to keep the HB out of the muck. No action on SP's at all.

Sorry Squidder mate, although I am little concerned as to what ya might be firing :roll: .

Price is a little village on the Gulf of St Vincent side of the Yorke Peninsula. Not sure of the number of people, but probably around 100 folk live there. There are very few estuaries on the Yorke that give good options for bream etc. The bream have been very shy, but I knew with patience they would turn it on. The next thing will be pulling out a Mulloway from there.

I will post in the trip section also, but is any SA boys interested in a mutant bream trip to Pt Pirie. I will be up for a fish in a couple of weeks. Latest catch I have heard of was a 48.5 cm bream and a few kingies. Not always productive, but when they do bite the fish are huge. Largest I have heard pulled out was a 56cm bream (questionable but not unfeasable, must be the lead).

Yakabe.

 

[Squidder]

Price is a little village on the Gulf of St Vincent side of the Yorke Peninsula. Not sure of the number of people, but probably around 100 folk live there.

Only 100 people! Sounds like my kind of village :wink:

 

[water_baby]

haha squidder. you dont want to know about the people that live there. they're on the 'special' end of the scale!!

well done adrian. persisted long enough and you figured it out finally! pt pirie would be nice too i think. i work with an ex-local from there, and he reckons people do pull schoolies and larger mullys, as well as the bream, from the system.