[andybear]

Hi all, and as promised herewith report.
Got up nice and early, all going well, stopped at local servo for ice, had a look around inside fridge, and found most of it had melted away..... let the attendant know, having reported the same problem now for a couple of months, still not fixed.....Onto next servo.... lock on door of fridge, would have to find attendant and so on.... gah! moved on to next servo. AhHa, lots of ice in not locked fridge.....door to servo locked didn't have to wait long...got bag of ice.....Finally, could feel my life slipping away from me... seconds dragging into minutes.

Got to Scarborough about 0420...Mission 1. Test new yak cart...Great.
Just about ready to go, when Louise turned up.. and quite soon we were on the water.
Mission 2 test wet mounted transducer...Hmm... ok I guess....probably need to run through the set up routine again, all ground looking solid black, but showed what I needed to see.

After about 15 mins paddle, heard much excitement from behind me, Louise using a Dam Buster (freshwater lure) was onto something, towing her around in the olymp SIK, quite urgently requesting my attendance, I caught up to her, as she landed her first yak fish and first lure fish... and what a ripper, a squire 43cm, hows that for a beginning? Said fish was stowed in my front well, because as you all remember, yes, I did finally get some ice.

Back to paddling, for about 20 mins, and Lou is paddling towards me this time, keen to show me a 30cm bream, just freshly caught. A quick piccy, and she tossed him back to grow some more......over the moon by now.

Finally I got a good hit, and a couple of minutes fight from a squire, that may or may not have been legal size, but certainly smaller than Lou's
gave him the chance to throw the hooks himself, and he bolted back down to the reef.

Conditions were simply perfect for the morning, (apart from algae/scum in the water) whether or not blue/green algae, I dont know.

Next on the scene, fellow workmate Trevor (soon to be corrupted into our fold) turned up on his tinny, had a bit of a troll around and a conference about this and that, and then new member Guru Grant, phoned to say he had arrived at Scarborough. It probably took me the best part of 25 minutes to get back to shore, and then Grant went for a paddle in my tempo. (I think that was his first paddle in a fishing SOT yak) He seemed well pleased. He is still deciding which yak to get. (so many good yaks to choose from)

Well thats about it. Lou might get some internet soon, and join the forum.
Had a fantastic morning, gee its good to be alive (especially when you look at the alternative)

Cheers all Andybear :lol:

 

[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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[GuruGrant]

Yep the weather was fantastic this morning. Water like glass all the way to Morton Island. Lou's squire was fantastic and made all the blokes jealous. Thanks for the paddle in the Tempo. It's an awesome beast.
I think Trev's almost a convert, just a little more work Andy. :wink:

 

[YakAtak]

Nice Pinky that, I'm jealous too, have only landed very small squire up there myself.

 

[Jake]

Great report Andybear. Glad to see there's still some action out in the shallows.
Must catch up for a fish someday!

 

[andybear]

Hi Jake,

Too right. Saw Jim out there, in his perception SIK, but he had not done any good up until we met up. Perhaps he got lucky! He had been trying to chase mackeral, with fast silver things. I might possibly squeeze in one more fishing trip before the end of the year, I just can't get away from Scarborough, and the general area..... just dont want to yet!

Cheers Andybear :lol:

 

[JD]

Hey Andybear, like you I had trouble getting ice on my early starts. I now keep 3 clean orange juice containers in the freezer. (about 2lt)
One of these in the esky/cooler bag works well. I use two if going out in the tinnie all day. Saves money and time. Also got clean water if you get caught out for longer then planned.

 

[Dodge]

Andy good to hear you have made it to the water again and also pleased to here some fish were about and hope you get another run in the before the silly season or you could get bad withdrawal symptoms. :wink: