Subject: kayak fishing today
Date: Thursday, 26 June 2008 4:22 PM
Before telling you about today, I need to introduce Ron Maybury, courtesy of Terry Nolan, who reckons Ron's a noosa yakker candidate and a nice bloke also. Hope to see you out with us soon, Ron. Yakkers, please add Ron to your lists.
I did pretty well today and Jim, not so well -- payback for last week I suppose when he was catching and I was enduring wind torture in FNQ.
Perfect launch conditions and superb out at JS. I got eight fish, five different species, on my first eight casts. Only one of those eight was worth keeping, however. We were hoping that the larger snapper had moved in -- they should be here soon -- but only undersized or marginal specimens were encountered, although Jim dropped a good fish (a probable snapper) early on when the hook pulled after a 30-second run.
I reckon I boated around 20 fish of many different species. All fish were taken on soft plastics (see pic of sweetlip below).
Jim and I pushed pretty hard coming back but hit the beach together, just managing to catch a tiny wave. I must be a little out of condition, however for when I went to jump out of the beached yak hoping to avoid the next incoming wave I found my legs woudn't work as well as they normally do and suffered an undignified backward tumble with slight wetting before recovering to haul the yak out of reach of the huge waves. ;-)
Note that a possible opportunity for the next trip is already showing on seabreeze -- Monday. Yee- hah!
Kev
Red & Yellow Espri, black paddle
VHF channel 09, Call Sign: sunshiner
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