Shark & gaitor kayak attacks

Author: josh

Category: News

Created on Tuesday, 15 May 2012 14:40

Written by Josh

Kayakangler.mag reports on two separate incidents in the US - one on the east coast, the other on the west - in-which a kayak was attacked by a shark (California) and another by an alligator (Florida). Yikes! The shark encounter is significant, being the forth similar attack in the area in the past 6 years.

To me this is kind of ironic because most of the Americans I know - especially those who haven't visited Australia - seem to think that their continent is a whole lot safer than ours. I'm beginning to wonder about that... sharks around here seem to be curious enough, but seemingly not as aggressive as their Californian counterparts! 

I fished this exact spot with members of Central Coast Kayak Fishing only six days prior. The group is chewing over the incident. Forum administrator JK shared a few more details. "Four witnesses said it was a 14-15 foot shark that launched a vertical attack and breached. The words they told me were it probably thought it (the kayak) was an elephant seal.  The bite marks were huge."

YCKFS E1P1 MP4 on Googledrive

Author: josh

Category: News

Created on Tuesday, 15 May 2012 08:18

Written by Josh

Episode1, Part 1 of Yakass Coastal Kayak Fishing Show is now showing on the Yakass Googledrive. Highlighting the first few days of our 2010 Fraser isl trip in much clearer footage than was on offer in the previous released youtube version.

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Josh meets super-fish!

Author: josh

Category: Trip Reports

Created on Sunday, 13 May 2012 15:38

Written by Josh

Kayak fishing report: Woody Head

Ed note: this yakfishing trip report reads as if it was written by Christopher Nolan while he was going through his 'Memento' phase, and is thus written in reverse (for the benefit of those who have ADHD and would otherwise miss the best bits by not reading to the end)...

And thats why I decided to set sail and head back in. Besides, I told myself... I already had enough fish in the bag for me and my neighbours... there was still time to... whatever... any excuse would do after spending the last 5 minutes in the company of a rather large shark... 4 of those minutes completely unawares of it's presence.

I'd just lost my lure in the most incredible fashion. I had a fair idea I was about to hook up as I trolled through what looked to be a small baitball, noting mack tuna smashing their prey. I'd turned the camera on in anticipation (glad I did that) and only moments later I felt a tug on the line. I'd hooked a mack tuna - my third for the day - and after reefing the sail, set about reeling it in. I felt it head towards the surface so I kept pressure on the line. From around 10 metres away I watched on as the surface broke when a gargantuan fish-shaped missile launched out of the water with the much smaller tuna perched in it's mouth. Oh my...

_{Is it a bird...}

_{Is it a plane...}

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Azul AI tag-team

Author: josh

Category: Trip Reports

Created on Sunday, 13 May 2012 14:37

Written by Josh

Kayak fishing report: Woody Head

It was with a great deal of anticipation that I pushed my Adventure Island onto the water as the sunrose over Woody Head this morning, looking out over flat seas and clear skies. Steve and Lee (AKA Balls & Rollerboy respectively) had camped overnight and were still rubbing the sleep out of their eyes when I launched, getting off to a sluggish start after a big day out previously. Thats unfortunate for them because there was definitely a lot more fish activity early on, my first bite coming within 300 metres of the beach, and it was a ripper. This fish hard and I'm pretty sure it was a spanish mackerel. I say 'pretty sure' because like 3 other fish this day, it managed to spit the hook before I could get it on. Actually, thats not completely accurate. While the first big hit was dropped, the second was lost due to the split ring snapping off the lure - I'm guessing after being placed under so much stress by the previous fish. This particular lure - a 15cm Rapala Maxrap (one of my new favourite lures) caught several fish for me at Fraser Island and a few others locally since, so I wasn't surprised it broke. Lesson learned - inspect all lures after a fight with a big fish.

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Quick Afternoon Session

Author: bendie

Category: Trip Reports

Created on Monday, 14 May 2012 08:51

Written by Ben

Kayak fishing report: Pine Rivers

The wind was up a bit too much for my liking to go out and chase some snapper out at my usual fishing spot at Scarborough reef. So instead I headed out chasing some flathead on the pine river again. Once again I took my brother out with me for his 2nd ever kayak fishing trip.

We headed straight out to one of my known flathead areas on the pine river and it didn't dissapoint. Within the first 5 minutes I had my first keeper at 41cm. Another few casts later and I had the next keeper at 50cm. The fishing went quite for the next 40mins or so until I picked up one more at 38cm, 2cm undersize so he went back in. All up a great little session. If it wasn't for the stupid stink boats motoring through at stupid speeds past us it would have been even better. Looking forward to some flathead for dinner tonight!

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