Canning River Kayaking - A new PB

Hi guys

Launched at a jetty near canning bridge today in search of my first fish of a yak.

Started with a bit of trolling up and down the flats with not much interest.

Then I paddled up toward a few moored boats and casted alongside one, had hits and follow ups most casts and dropped a solid fish due to being distracted and not being able to set the hooks.

It went dead for a while then a bit later my rod doubled over and the drag started to sing. After a few solid runs a good flattie arose from the murky water. Only problem was I didn't have a net, somehow I manged to lift the flattie up onto the yak without the leader snapping and paddle to shore.

He ended up going 50cm.

After a few snaps and a succesfull release we decided to call it a day.

Cheers

Sorry for Dodgy pictures, Phones camera lens was dirty and wanted to get the fish back in the water.

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snappermiles's picture

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thats a nice

Sat, 2011-01-15 14:58

flatty there mate!! good effort! would have tasted real nice too

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 well done in getting your

Sat, 2011-01-15 15:13

 well done in getting your first off the yak, nice size one as well

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brg's picture

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nice one, im gonna give

Sat, 2011-01-15 18:48

nice one, im gonna give canning a crack tomorrow did you see any bream around?

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not many but when I found

Sat, 2011-01-15 20:35

not many but when I found them they were hitting the lures hard. The dropped fish and follow ups were all bream.

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Nice

Wed, 2011-02-09 21:35

 Its good to see there is actually fish in the rivers down in perth. Im moving there on Saturday and will be heavily missing the awesome fishing we have up here at Geraldton :/

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