queensland Morning yak

[benno573]

decided to use a couple of brownie points and take my yak for a spin this morning.

 

got to the ramp just on sunrise, loved the fact there was no other cars at the ramp, and got my stuff together and got into it

I trolled around for a bit and landed a small flathead, followed by another.  I then hooked something a bit more solid and landed a GT around 40cm. I really enjoy eating these so it was bled and released into the esky. 

 

I continued on and landed another 4 undersized flathead, a small tailor and a bream. Then I hooked something very solid which started towing me off down the creek. Unfortunately I correctly guessed during the fight what had happened - I had trolled over a stingray and the hooks had stuck. I managed to get the large cow tail ray up beside the yak and even managed to get my lure back.

 

i then passed by a family of swans

 

and not long after hooked a second GT which was also released into the esky.

i covered just over 16km according to gps, not a massively successful morning but enough action to keep me interested, good to clear the mind and a feed for the family to boot.

cheers,

benno

[ellicat]

Good way to spend some brownies. Looks like a kayak only spot - definitely a bit muddy for landbased.

[Jono4500]

Nice work, sounds like a successfull morning to me,. Can I ask what lure did u get flattie on the troll?

[kmcrosby78]

Nice work Benno!!

[fishingnut]

Well done mate. How do you cook the trevs? Only ever seen them used to make fish cakes 

[Old Scaley]

4 hours ago, fishingnut said:

Well done mate. How do you cook the trevs? Only ever seen them used to make fish cakes 

I have pan fried fillets with and without flour or crumbs, and also in beer batter. They were really good. Just as good as golden trevs in my opinion. I bought some fresh mullet fillets on Straddie this week. I had forgotten how good they taste fresh.

Didn’t mean to hijack your thread @benno573. Nice little morning session. When are we going fishing again?

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Hey Benno

Great job! That seems like a fun session on the yak.

THose trevs will be yummy.

Cheers Hamish

[benno573]

On 19/09/2021 at 10:16 AM, fishingnut said:

Well done mate. How do you cook the trevs? Only ever seen them used to make fish cakes 

as long as they are bled and looked after, pan fried dusted in flour works a treat. also hold together well in a curry or similar.  extremely underrated food fish at that size in my opinion.

[benno573]

On 18/09/2021 at 11:28 PM, Jono4500 said:

Nice work, sounds like a successfull morning to me,. Can I ask what lure did u get flattie on the troll?

a mixture.  zerek tango shad 50mm, damiki armour shad 55mm and even picked up two on trolled plastics.  landed 8 for the morning but unfortunately not the table sized one i was looking for.