New Kayak!
Picked up this fishing machine from fellow member benno208 today and with conditions looking awesome for a paddle this arvo I decided to head out to Penguin Island on only my 2nd time on one of these FINN kayaks. Took the little flicky out rigged with a cheap little Starlo & Bushy hardbody and chucked it out behind the yak bout halfway over to the island. Water was real murky and heaps of floating weed probably from the big swell yesterday but i pushed out to the south-east corner of the island. 1st cast and the lure got whalloped by a nice 25cm skippy in only a couple meters of water, my first fish from a kayak and first skippy on a hardbody lure! Couple cast later and the lure got smashed again, this time it was as ive always been bought up as a "rock cod," but i think it is some species of wrasse, a bit bigger than the skippy and was another first on the hardbody. Trolled back to the mainland and picked up a couple of herring.
Pretty happy with the outcome for only about 20mins of actual casting. Think i will invest in a small x-rap or something similar, does anywone have any reccomendations on smaller minnows for targetting herring, chopper tailor, salmon trout, skippy and the like?
My goal for kayak fishing this year will be to get a nice salmon of at least a couple kilos, hopefully a cockburn snapper too if im lucky!
Dan L
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ecogear sx48,40,60
ecogear sx48,40,60
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hey man
have used zipbait khamsin tiny - trolling in a yak picked up herring, skippy, little pinkies, salmon trout, flathead
So the same or similar lure in a bigger size would work too
Cheers
winner winner chicken dinner
sarcasm0
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Also
I have seen a few cracking kgw in the shallows on the sand patches in a kayak. Do they hit any type of bottom lures?
Bryan
Dan L
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I think I have heard of them
I think I have heard of them being caught on snapbacks and I think i read somewhere that people have caught them on jigs but obviously only in deeper water.
Shorty
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I was down for the ABT bream
I was down for the ABT bream tournament at Albany a couple months back,, i got 3 King George around 40 cm in a row on a khashim tiny while targetting bream,,so they love lures just a matter of finding which ones work,,(or buy Khashmin because we know they work)