queensland Christened the threadie at CIW.

[rayke1938]

After getting up at 3am for a dawn start and a lot of stuffing around I finally launched at 5am.

There seemed to be a bit of surface action at the launch site so I threw a few poppers and small h/bs and assorted spinner/ buzz baits for nil result.

Sounder wasn't working at first till I realised that the off button wont turn it on.:blush:

Found a few schools but may have been mullet as no interest in lures.

Then worked the edges around to the inlet just before the lock gates.

On one of the points I nailed what I thought was a monster fish until I got it alongside to discover that it was a pretty black and yellow eel around 4 ft long.

I was wondering how I was going to solve this problem when it chafed through the 10 lb nitlon leader and swam off with my last knols native.

I then got my first bass in the inlet. It would have been well over 40cm but no ruler.

Here is a photo of my feet with the fish..

I then got another one that was over 30. Here is another foot photo with part of the fish shown.

I will have to do a bit more practice of taking photos in the yak its a bit harder than I thought.

The breeze started to get up a bit making it hard to hold position and cast to the bank so I decided to troll around a bit.

I got another largish bass on the troll but it went for a dive when I got it close to the boat and wrapped the line around the prop so bye bye bass.

Whilst I was playing this fish unknown to me my other line also became wrapped around the prop so I got a bit of paddling practice going to shore to remove the lines from the prop.

I ended up losing both lures so it was an expensive morning.

Knocked off around 10 am the battery still seemed quite strong after possibly 3 hours of trolling and at least one hour was on speed 2 or 3 when I was punching into the wind. The voltage was 12.3 when I got home so I could have comfortably stayed another couple of hours but my bum was getting numb.

I have worked out another couple of small mods to do to Threadie the main one is to shorten the motor shaft another 6 inches so it doesn't draw so much water and maybe make it a bit harder for a fish to wrap the line around the prop.

I am getting a lot more confident in the yak but will NEVER join Terry and his mad mates off the Bribie blinker.

Cheers

Ray

[shortie]

nice fish Ray.

Glad your enjoying it.

Just think 2 lures is still cheaper then the fuel you would of put in the boat.

[Angus]

Well done mate!!

Awesome to see you getting out there in your winnings

Nice bass as well! I bet that eel would have given some good stick on bass gear!

Cheers.

Angus

[James W]

good on ya ray!

mate i feel ya pain with the loss of ya knolls native lure..they are great lures...

[Clawhammer]

Well Done Ray,

I'm jealous..i'm thinking of hitting Baroon tomorrow now,just to help cure my 'Bass fever'!

Any worries getting 'Threadie' on and off the rack?

P.S.

3am Start....Crikey!

[username_taken]

nice work Ray! Chuck a measuring sticker on your paddle, or just draw some marks on it with a nikko pen.

[wolfr]

Excellent fish Ray, good work

[Jeryl]

welldone Ray a very nice productive session indeed :cheer:

the hot weather certainly brings up the heat i went surface breaming a few days ago on a kayak with a mate, using cicada lures and px45s and we cleaned up the area with bagging about 50 breams

[bootyinblue]

Ray the unstoppable!

Excellent work there with all the mod cons complete on the yak and out there amongst it already.

I like the idea of a measuring stick on the paddle, and as suggested just draw it on, that way 40cm can be as big or small as you like!

[Dinodadog]

onya Ray well done some nice bass, I'll have to save up for a yak so I can join you.

[Brian D]

Who's that crazy fool in a yak...and he can't swim.:ohmy:

But he can catch fish. Congrates crazy boy Ray, when will you grow up? Never I suspect.

[cpetrie]

nice bass mate, the one over 40 would've been fun.

glad to hear you like using the yak, much cheaper than using a baot every time to go out.

[mangler]

Nice work Ray, looking forward to many more yak reports.

[tacklebox]

Well done Ray. Did you sneak out while the mrs wasn't watching? :cheer: