16-03-2009, 06:40 PM
[quote name='Jazman' post='6089' date='Feb 13 2006, 05:27 PM']I thought I would start a thread about kayak fishing - since I have recently bought a dedicated fishing kayak.
It is a Cobra 'Fish n Dive' and is designed to allow you to SCUBA dive from the kayak - I have only done this once, but we caught quite a few nice scallops down at Mcrae in PPB. I have fished from the kayak quite a lot in Port Philip Bay, at Chelsea, Dromana, and majority at Black Rock where we target snapper on soft plastics, squid, and troll lures for snook and salmon. We found an awesome school of salmon a few weeks ago (see photo below), and have been hoping for a kingfish after hearing reports of fish to 4kg in this area. A friend had 3 kings of 70cm hanging underneath his kayak looking at his fsh bag last week, but they weren't hungry, despite him throwing every lure in his tackle box at them. I have also used the kayak to fish off Shoreham in Westernport Bay, and got a nice bag of 11 leatherjackets two weekends ago. It's a great feeling to paddle to where you're fishing, and we reckon the absence of motor noise helps us land more fish than motor boats (aka stink boats). I'm extra lucky beacuse my girlfriend also bought a kayak, so I don't have to bug her to let me go fishing - she actually bugs me to go fishing sometimes!
Hope you guys enjoy the photos.[/quote]
This is a topic that in a very short time has stolen my heart, i have always been around boats and have owned 3 boats over the past 12 years, but moving from Darwin to Canberra last year my custom quintrex seemed like a bit of over kill in our local lakes, (a lot of work launching/cleaning) for what is only usualy 2 or 3 hours on the water. What was i going to do....... a kayak i thought, after alot of research i decided on a Viking Tempo 2 fisherman qld made (and you can stand up and cast in it) decked it out with a 40lb minn kota and a humminbird sounder and have not looked back, fishing from a kayak for the first time last year i felt born again, all those spots my boat could not make it (too shallow or nowhere to launch) are now at my mercy. I went for the 2 seater at 4m it is a big craft and you do need 2 people to get it on and off the roof, but i have never had any probs getting someone to man the extra seat, the only real problem i have had with the kayak is my poor quintrex is getting a little left out. Looking forward to chasing trophy trout in it this winter ahhh the world is my oyster!
It is a Cobra 'Fish n Dive' and is designed to allow you to SCUBA dive from the kayak - I have only done this once, but we caught quite a few nice scallops down at Mcrae in PPB. I have fished from the kayak quite a lot in Port Philip Bay, at Chelsea, Dromana, and majority at Black Rock where we target snapper on soft plastics, squid, and troll lures for snook and salmon. We found an awesome school of salmon a few weeks ago (see photo below), and have been hoping for a kingfish after hearing reports of fish to 4kg in this area. A friend had 3 kings of 70cm hanging underneath his kayak looking at his fsh bag last week, but they weren't hungry, despite him throwing every lure in his tackle box at them. I have also used the kayak to fish off Shoreham in Westernport Bay, and got a nice bag of 11 leatherjackets two weekends ago. It's a great feeling to paddle to where you're fishing, and we reckon the absence of motor noise helps us land more fish than motor boats (aka stink boats). I'm extra lucky beacuse my girlfriend also bought a kayak, so I don't have to bug her to let me go fishing - she actually bugs me to go fishing sometimes!
Hope you guys enjoy the photos.[/quote]
This is a topic that in a very short time has stolen my heart, i have always been around boats and have owned 3 boats over the past 12 years, but moving from Darwin to Canberra last year my custom quintrex seemed like a bit of over kill in our local lakes, (a lot of work launching/cleaning) for what is only usualy 2 or 3 hours on the water. What was i going to do....... a kayak i thought, after alot of research i decided on a Viking Tempo 2 fisherman qld made (and you can stand up and cast in it) decked it out with a 40lb minn kota and a humminbird sounder and have not looked back, fishing from a kayak for the first time last year i felt born again, all those spots my boat could not make it (too shallow or nowhere to launch) are now at my mercy. I went for the 2 seater at 4m it is a big craft and you do need 2 people to get it on and off the roof, but i have never had any probs getting someone to man the extra seat, the only real problem i have had with the kayak is my poor quintrex is getting a little left out. Looking forward to chasing trophy trout in it this winter ahhh the world is my oyster!