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Kayak Fishing at West Lakes 1/2/16
Whoo-hoo! I just got my ‘kayak exemption’ from a postie, magically metamorphosed into a belated and entirely unwitting Santa Claus… NOW I can finally put my kayak in the water with the motor on it… and I can finally find out if it works!
34 lb Electric motor on my Dace Pro-Angler
I’m really just a beginner kayak-fisherman, but have learned much already and am learning more each day… which brings me to the subject of this blog: This blog is about the sharing of kayak fishing information, tips and techniques, not to mention the exchange of fisherman’s tales and boasting about the huge fish we caught and the bigger ones that got away, between kayak fishermen from as far afield as Adelaide, South Australia, where I live, to County Durham in the northeast of England, from whence I hope to receive a few contributions from my brother, Morgyn… and maybe at least one nephew who I know is into kayaking too…
Getting the kayak ready
Any other kayak fishermen/women who would like to contribute to this blog are more than welcome to do so and I’ll be happy to welcome your contributions as soon as I discover the correct protocols… In the meantime, I do hope you’ll feel free to add comments and/or ask questions… (I’m sure I’ll figure out how to answer them soon!)
For my first article, this weekend, I’ll have to make do with a few photos from my latest fishing trip to West Lakes, with my mate, Peter, who was ‘official photographer’ and who took most of the photos of the ‘expedition’…
Pedro the Fisherman!
It was my most successful fishing expedition to date, to this (all too) popular fishing spot… (from a kayak anyway…) Although all the bream I caught were undersized, one or two of the five I caught were almost legal sized… and I did get one monster bite from something BIG! (Which, unfortunately, got away! ‘Struth!)
Almost legal!
Next outing I have planned is for next Tuesday… and now that I have my ‘exemption’ I can put it in the water with the 34 lb Watersnake ‘Slither’ motor I’ve been just itching to try ever since I built a little transom to hold it…
One of the benefits of being single is I get to keep my kayak on a sofa in my lounge! Cool! 😀
I’ll give a complete video and audio rundown of my very recently acquired kayak (just before Christmas) and all the ‘accessorizing’ I’ve done on it since then in my next article – which will hopefully also have a video-log of my first outing with the motor too (and with the outriggers too! Pontoons to help the kayak cope with the extra weight of the motor and battery, etc) – as well as an outline of what remains to be done to create my perfect, fully-customized fishing kayak… all in next week’s exciting edition of “Kayak Fishing South Australia and UK”.
See you all then!
Bluesman 😀
Kayak Fishing in South Australia and the UK 
Finally got onto (into?) Your blog!!! But where’s a photo of Dave the fisherman? There’s couch potatoes, couch pillows…but COUCH KAYAKS?!? I’m laughing out loud at the idea! ;8^)
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Hi Deanna and welcome to my new blog… There’s actually a lot more exercise to this than may at first appear in the pictures, which show me at anchor and fishing. But getting there takes a fair bit of paddling and believe me that gives me a great workout. In fact that was the major purpose behind my buying a kayak; I’d been wracking my brains for ages trying to figure out a form of relatively strenuous, but still largely aerobic, exercise that I could do that doesn’t require two good legs… and kayaking fits the bill perfectly! The fact that I can also use a kayak to engage in a sport that I haven’t been able to do much of for several years is a bonus.
Wait ’til you see the next couple of issues; lots of fun stuff coming up… including the somewhat mixed results of the first trial of my trolling motor… if you want a laugh wait ’til you see the videos of that! (IF they turned out… I still haven’t looked at them yet, myself; Peter took them too…) So… don’t forget to register, or ‘follow’ this blog, or whatever it is that one does with blogs.
As for ‘where’s the picture of ‘Dave the Fisherman’?’ That’s me, getting the kayak ready… and sitting in it in the middle of the lake, catching fish! 😛
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Glad you finally made it onto my blog, Deanna… I could’ve sworn I’d answered this post ages ago… but somehow the answer isn’t showing up in my ‘comments’… so I’ll do it again: “Where’s Dave the fisherman?” That’s me sitting in the kayak on the lake catching fish… I’m glad you like my ‘couch kayak’.
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im the person who took the pictures
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G’day Peter… and thanks for taking the pics. (Bluesman) 😀
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