Weekend Yak Trip.. But where?

[brandan1034]

Hi all,

Haven't been out for a fish in too long. So I'm going to take the yak for a paddle this weekend. Only problem is I'm not sure where I'll go. I was thinking maybe the Gold Coast somewhere, maybe canals or even redcliffe. Anybody heading out over the weekend also?

Cheers Brandan

[ellicat]

The boys are having a social at Borumba Dam this weekend. You would be more than welcome to join in. Look out for Ted, the bloke with his arm in a sling.

[Binder]

Forecast is not great. I've decided to give it a miss myself.

[Runty66]

i would be up for a yak in the goldy canals or something like that

[brandan1034]

The boys are having a social at Borumba Dam this weekend. You would be more than welcome to join in. Look out for Ted, the bloke with his arm in a sling.

Borumba is a great dam but a bit further than I was planning on going this weekend. Cheers for the heads up however.

[brandan1034]

i would be up for a yak in the goldy canals or something like that

I've never fished any of the Gold Coast canals in a kayak, always done it out of a boat so I'd be keen, but I wouldn't know which 1's to hit up as its been a very very long time.

[Runty66]

i would be up for a yak in the goldy canals or something like that

I've never fished any of the Gold Coast canals in a kayak, always done it out of a boat so I'd be keen, but I wouldn't know which 1's to hit up as its been a very very long time.

All the canals there hold fish, just gotta work hard and get the casts in there haha

[hog23]

Hi Brandon I'm heading to tingalpa creek in the morning for a fish, have a look at the post above

Cheers

[brandan1034]

A very quick report on how the trip went.

I decided to hit up the Runaway Bay canals. It was incredibly windy, I think the calmest it got all day was a light 30knot breeze. Despite that I managed a heap of hits, dropped quite a few fish and landed 2 bream. Nothing massive but enough to get me a bit of that fishing fix. There was heaps of bait on the sounder in the deeper parts of the canal and lots of bigger fish hanging off the sides but I couldn't pull anything off them unfortunately

[arand18]

A very quick report on how the trip went.

I decided to hit up the Runaway Bay canals. It was incredibly windy, I think the calmest it got all day was a light 30knot breeze. Despite that I managed a heap of hits, dropped quite a few fish and landed 2 bream. Nothing massive but enough to get me a bit of that fishing fix. There was heaps of bait on the sounder in the deeper parts of the canal and lots of bigger fish hanging off the sides but I couldn't pull anything off them unfortunately

Nice work, what was you using in terms of lures or soft plastics.

thanks

[brandan1034]

I was using 50mm bream aqua prawns and 4" powerbait minnows. I was using 1/32 and 1/60 hidden weight TT heads.

[Surfingant]

I was using 50mm bream aqua prawns and 4" powerbait minnows. I was using 1/32 and 1/60 hidden weight TT heads.

In that wind your lure most likely wasn't getting anywhere near the bottom with such a light weight on, try upping the weight next time to give yourself a better chance at those fish hanging off the sides of the baitballs.

[EZY]

I was using 50mm bream aqua prawns and 4" powerbait minnows. I was using 1/32 and 1/60 hidden weight TT heads.

In that wind your lure most likely wasn't getting anywhere near the bottom with such a light weight on, try upping the weight next time to give yourself a better chance at those fish hanging off the sides of the baitballs.

iv'e found thru the whole tinnie creek system that 1/8 and 1/4oz are the best, gets the lure down onto the bottom and puffing up sand ect, however towards the mouth when the tide is running hard upgrade to 1/2oz to get down into the strike zone. up the top of the creek try the "snakehead" tt's weedless or simalar to get down into the hole's, gutters ect if you have a sounder take with you it will be surprise how deep some of them are. good luck hope it helps ezy

[brandan1034]

I'm almost certain it was getting to the bottom even in the wind. It was pretty easy to manoeuvre the kayak so that I was alowing the plastic to sink. I was using a bigger jig head when flicking those bait balls. Roughly 1/8 from memory.