Summary December 2016

Facebook provides an excellent and simple facility for conducting group discussions in text form, including unbeatable support for adding still pictures, movies and "shares". As a result, with our Facebook Group we have better media-rich communication within Noosa Yakkers than ever before, with lots of info and useful material appearing quickly on our Group because it's so easy to post, to view and to make comments. Not on Facebook? I encourage you to dip your paddle in the Facebook sea and give it a try. If the oldest members of Noosa Yakkers can do it probably you can. Not convinced? Don't despair. We have no intention of dropping our tried and true Google Group email or our indispensable blog of Trip Reports and generally useful yak fishing info. But if you're not on Facebook, you're missing out.

To help retain contact with our established world wide blog audience we've decided to publish this monthly summary of our fishing activity. The info has been extracted from our closed (private) Facebook Group. Constructive ideas to improve this summary and/or volunteered editorial skills are welcomed.

Don't want your Facebook post reproduced here? Please contact a committee member.

Summary December 2016

This monthly brief summary of fishing trip information is only a fraction of the useful and interesting info and banter appearing on our Facebook Group. You can see our public Page here:
Noosa Yakkers public Page (includes Sign Up link)
and our Group (fully accessible only to members) here:
Noosa Yakkers Facebook Group

Overview, weather and species

Noosa sea temperature 01Dec16 23.9°C and at 31Dec16 25°C

Fish species mentioned or featured in Noosa Yakkers' reports this month in Noosa area: snapper, grass sweetlip, blue maori, longtail tuna, coach whip trevally, Mary River cod, mackerel tuna, Spanish mackerel, Maori cod, Murray cod, yellow tailed kingfish, Australian bass, dusky flathead, pearl perch, black marlin


# 08Dec16

Doctor Dog and others:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527838470643832/permalink/1175153105912362/


# 09Dec16

Weeksie and sunshiner:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527838470643832/permalink/1176873515740321/


# 11Dec16

aussiestu:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527838470643832/permalink/1179689162125423/


# 14Dec16

Tunny and co:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527838470643832/permalink/1183072535120419/


# 15Dec16

Sunshiner and co:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527838470643832/permalink/1184405971653742/


# 17Dec16

unsinkable:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527838470643832/permalink/1187222581372081/


Doc Dog and co

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527838470643832/permalink/1187091774718495/



# 18Dec16

sunshiner and co:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527838470643832/permalink/1188230511271288/


redwood:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527838470643832/permalink/1188499337911072/


briffa:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527838470643832/permalink/1189626384465034/


# 20Dec16

sunshiner and co:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527838470643832/permalink/1190383374389335/



cuddles, holidaying in Hervey Bay

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527838470643832/permalink/1190393637721642/

gemini:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527838470643832/permalink/1190637044363968


# 21Dec16

cuddles in Hervey Bay

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527838470643832/permalink/1191269097634096/


# 22Dec16

sunshiner and eight others:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527838470643832/permalink/1192167097544296/


# 30Dec16

weeksie and co:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527838470643832/permalink/1198166800277659/


So, some good Spaniards taken, but no spotty macs yet in Noosa. Probably they aren't far away.


Kev Long
Sunshiner
Author Kayak Fishing Manual for iPhone, iPad and Mac (click linked text to view)
Stealth Supalite X, yellow/orange
FREE iBook "Kayak Fishing Laguna Bay & Jew Shoal" for iPhone, iPad and Mac
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Summary November 2016

Facebook provides an excellent and simple facility for conducting group discussions in text form, including unbeatable support for adding still pictures, movies and "shares". As a result, with our Facebook Group Page we have better media-rich communication within Noosa Yakkers than ever before, with lots of info and useful material appearing quickly on our Group Page because it's so easy to post, to view and to make comments. Not on Facebook? I encourage you to dip your paddle in the Facebook sea and give it a try. If the oldest members of Noosa Yakkers can do it probably you can. Not convinced? Don't despair. We have no intention of dropping our tried and true Google Group email or our indispensable blog of Trip Reports and generally useful yak fishing info. But if you're not on Facebook, you're missing out.

To help retain contact with our established world wide blog audience we've decided to publish this monthly summary of our fishing activity. The info has been extracted from our closed Group Facebook Page. Constructive ideas to improve this summary and/or volunteered editorial skills are welcomed.

Don't want your Facebook post reproduced here? Please contact a committee member.

Summary November 2016

This monthly brief summary of fishing trip information is only a fraction of the useful and interesting info and banter appearing on our Facebook Group Page. You can see our Public Page here:
Noosa Yakkers Public Page (includes Sign Up link)
and our Group Page (fully accessible only to members) here:
Noosa Yakkers Facebook Group

Overview, weather and species

Noosa sea temperature 01Nov16 24.4°C and at 30Nov16 23.9°C

Fish species mentioned or featured in Noosa Yakkers' reports this month in Noosa area: snapper, great barracuda, grass sweetlip, bigeye trevally, school mackerel

# 04Nov16

sunshiner:


# 06Nov16

the hoff:


# 07Nov16

tunny:


# 11Nov16

jag_one:


# 12Nov16

weeksie and others:


# 18Nov16

tunny:


STRONG WINDS 13-23 NOVEMBER!

# 24Nov16

Mark Williams:


# 26Nov16

Sunshiner:


# 30Nov16

sunshiner and five others in Laguna Bay:


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This was a quiet month, fish wise. December usually sees the spotted and Spanish mackerel arrive.

Kev Long
Sunshiner
Author Kayak Fishing Manual for iPhone, iPad and Mac (click linked text to view)
Stealth Supalite X, yellow/orange
FREE iBook "Kayak Fishing Laguna Bay & Jew Shoal" for iPhone, iPad and Mac
No comments:

Summary for October 2016

Facebook provides an excellent and simple facility for conducting group discussions in text form, including unbeatable support for adding still pictures, movies and "shares". As a result, with our Facebook Group Page we have better media-rich communication within Noosa Yakkers than ever before, with lots of info and useful material appearing quickly on our Group Page because it's so easy to post, to view and to make comments. Not on Facebook? I encourage you to dip your paddle in the Facebook sea and give it a try. If the oldest members of Noosa Yakkers can do it probably you can. Not convinced? Don't despair. We have no intention of dropping our tried and true Google Group email or our indispensable blog of Trip Reports and generally useful yak fishing info. But if you're not on Facebook, you're missing out.

To help retain contact with our established world wide blog audience we've decided to publish this monthly summary of our fishing activity. The info has been extracted from our closed Group Facebook Page. Constructive ideas to improve this summary and/or volunteered editorial skills are welcomed.

Don't want your Facebook post reproduced here? Please contact a committee member.

Summary October 2016

This monthly brief summary of fishing trip information is only a fraction of the useful and interesting info and banter appearing on our Facebook Group Page. You can see our Public Page here:
Noosa Yakkers Public Page (includes Sign Up link)
and our Group Page (fully accessible only to members) here:
Noosa Yakkers Facebook Group

Overview, weather and species

Noosa sea temperature 01Oct16 22.2°C and at 31Oct16 24.4°C

Fish species mentioned or featured in Noosa Yakkers' reports this month in Noosa area: snapper (including some over 70cm), grass sweetlip, longtail tuna, jewfish (just undersize), flathead, giant trevally, whiting, barramundi, cobia, slender suckerfish (true!), Australian bonito, school mackerel, great flying fish, spotted mackerel (undersize, or possibly misidentified school mackerel).

# 01Oct16

thorny:


# 02Oct16

sunshiner:


plus embedded video



stormin:



# 06Oct16

sunshiner, tunny, diesel:


# 07Oct16

jag-one:


# 08Oct16

doctor dog:


sunshiner:


kiwi (on his first trip with us):


redwood:


jonny:


# 12Oct16

jag-one:


# 13Oct16

tunny:


# 19Oct16

doctor dog:


# 22Oct16

joelC and captain:


# 23Oct16

doctor dog:


# 25Oct16

weeksie:


tunny:



# 28Oct16

tunny:


# 29Oct16

stormin:


A pretty good month. Let's see what November produces.


Kev Long
Sunshiner
Author Kayak Fishing Manual for iPhone, iPad and Mac (click linked text to view)
Stealth Supalite X, yellow/orange
FREE iBook "Kayak Fishing Laguna Bay & Jew Shoal" for iPhone, iPad and Mac
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Doctor Dog's First Noosa River Barra 23.10.2016

TR by doctordog

Wind: negligible
Swell: nil as in river
Current: run out tide
Launch point: Quamby Place
Participants: DoctorDog, Redwood, Tunny
On Sunday October 23 I had my shortest yet arguably most successful yak trip. I was planning to paddle in search of a fabled Noosa River Barramundi or perhaps a Mangrove Jack. Local fishermen had suggested seeking the last light of a warm day and the falling tide . Being scheduled to work on the morrow I did not want to be out too late.
I am often a little disorganised in my preparations but tonight I was ahead of the game and arrived at the appointed car park to an orange sunset lighting up the western sky. I launched at around 6.15 pm before my paddling partners had arrived - having previously suggested I would launch at 7.00 pm I was well and truly ahead of schedule.

The remnants of the brilliant orange sunset illuminated this family of Pacific Black ducklings as they scuttled across Quamby Lagoon to hide in the mangroves.
Paddling out of the lagoon I set up my trolling outfit of a Gold Bomber 15A lure on my father’s day gift of a Loomis GL2 rod married with a Calcutta 200B- the Bomber was lightly coated with S-Factor scent.
I made my way to one of my preferred trolling tracks where I had had previous success with Trevally and Mangrove Jack. Light was fading fast as I put on my head lamp and changed directions to avoid the set lines of shore based fishermen. My head lamp was not comfortable so I had it and my hat in my lap as I paddled with a plan to fit the lamp and turn it on if any boats approached.
I noted large swirling disturbances in the open water where obviously large fish slid quietly away from the stealthy approach of my craft. Could that be Barra or just large Mullet I wondered to myself.
Mid way through my first circuit the calm of the river astern of me was disrupted by a large leaping fish determined to take my trolled Gold Bomber for a couple of hard runs initially in open water then after a few minutes my first Noosa River Barra hookup skull dragged me and my kayak up to a near by jetty.
The Loomis Calcutta combo performed flawlessly in those first blinding runs and leaps allowing me to stow my paddle and maintain tension on the lure while the fish did its best to dislodge the hooks. I could feel the 40 lb mono leader scraping around the oyster encrusted pylons. If only I had a better view of what was going on. My head lamp was still in my lap, my hatch closed my /beach tennis paddle under my tackle bag in the hatch so in a scene reminiscent of “the three stooges” I quickly and awkwardly jammed my now illuminated lamp on my head at a none to perfect position.
I scrabbled in the hatch to find my ping pong bat paddle as I desperately kept tension on and tried to steer the fish back to open water. I briefly back paddled one handed with the bat/paddle hoping to get the fish out into the clear.
I could see my barra and her red eyes in the torch light coming back out into open water but my 20 lb braid was wrapped behind two or more pylons. I was panicking that I was about to lose this fish to the oysters. Mercifully the barra came to the surface and I grabbed the leader and hand-lined it yak-side. Continuing the comedic theme I then had to extract gaff or lip grippers from my now tangled jumble of a gear hatch whilst my fish struggled occasionally violently in my line wrapped but mercifully gloved left hand. After what seemed an age I pinned the barra with my gaff and lifted her into the hatch.
This is where things got really silly as for a short time I was hooked through the little finger of my right hand by one of the 3 sets of trebles and the other 2 sets were firmly attached to the recently landed fish. The hook was deeply imbedded in my pinky beyond the barb but fortunately the fish stayed quiet allowing me to formulate a plan to separate us.
I was able to whip the hook out of my finger with my pliers in my left hand. Adrenaline and heart rate were “redlining” and I broke the treble in the removal process. The hook came out cleanly and my finger barely bled. I now had to cut the line to free myself and the yak from the line wrap around the pylons.

I had my fish safely stowed in the hatch and started to paddle back to the launch point. Just as I neared the beach The fish gave an almighty thrash in the fish box giving me visions of the lid flying open and an escaping fish as per some You tube video I had seen. Perhaps I should have done a brain spike immediately after capture but I did not want to risk getting hooked again.





I was back on the beach with a photo taken by 7.00pm. A PB Barra for me and my first ever Noosa River catch of this species all in 45 minutes.
Eyetags record of 96 cm is safe from my 88 cm 9 kg fish.




Tunny took some photos and he and Redwood were last seem paddling into the gloom.
It was nearly midnight before I finished cleaning the fish and my gear and the adrenaline rush was still there.
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