Yak attack

[Drop Bear]

Hey fishing champions. 

we are wanting to purchase 2 yaks for our group. We will be using them for a few different things and I wanted to see if you could recommend a brand or model. 

We will be using them for;

clean up events for places where it is hard to get a boat to. 

deploying fish hotels like these ones

Other messy work and perhaps some fishing. 

Wanting a depth sounder and wondering if we want peddle power.

I was thinking we should get tandem yaks so that we can choose to take 2 persons or a person and a load of stuff. 

They will get muddy so something easy to clean would be good.

Some of us are fat bastards so good stability and weight carrying capacity would be very important. 

Any thoughts or advice? Also advice on sounders for yaks. Happy to pay for the better models. 

DB

 

[longhairedwahoo]

Hey, if your going plastic can definetly recommend viking kayaks. I have had a nemo 1 man, a nemo two+1 and a 4.5m profish and they all lived very hard lives but did not show it at all. If your looking at tandems I would probably look at the viking tempo though as the nemo is definetly a bit crowded with two adults with not much room for storage of large items. Otherwise they are bulletproof, stable as and there are **** loads about on marketplace second hand if you dont want to pay heaps.

[Hweebe]

Don't know much about kayaks but cool fish hotels, where have you been deploying them, do you go back and check on success of the hotels?

[Tuna are fish]

I can recommend kayaks 2 fish, they have a large range the are very stable and have lots of space in the back.

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Kayaks2fish would be a good start. I have a tandem and it is nice and stable, and storage space in the hull or in small hatches. They aren't peddle power though.

[Drop Bear]

On 22/08/2022 at 10:28 AM, Hweebe said:

Don't know much about kayaks but cool fish hotels, where have you been deploying them, do you go back and check on success of the hotels?

On 22/08/2022 at 10:28 AM, Hweebe said:

Don't know much about kayaks but cool fish hotels, where have you been deploying them, do you go back and check on success of the hotels?

Not sure why I got 2 quotes soz. 

These ones are in Scrubby Creek that flows into the Logan River. They are at JJ Smith Park in Marsden. It is very muddy water there and we did some underwater filming a few months ago as a baseline and found very few fish. There are some fish like dudgeons, catties, eels, swordtales, mollies, etc. as well as prawns and such. We found no bass or cod sadly. We assume that the bass cant breed there as there are a few fish passage barriers that stop them getting back from when they breed in the salt water. Cod probably won't breed as there is very little snags for them to lay their eggs on. 

These fish hotels are an attempt to bring back some fish habitat.

We will be putting oyster baskets in the lower reaches of the Logan in a few spots and hopefully more fish hotels. We are doing planting events so that one day the snags will naturally come back. Also we are removing 2 fish passage barriers. After they are gone a re stocking event would be great. 

If you want to know more or want to get involved, go to the OzFish site. 

https://ozfish.org.au/projects/logan-river/

https://ozfish.org.au/ozfish-membership/

 

[Drop Bear]

Thanks legends. Ordering 2 now.