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Haven't fished APL much, about once a year over the last 4 years - each time I've donut'd. Plenty of reports of good fish there, so I have always been keen to try and break the donut, but just have been slow to return there mostly choosing other places to go when I've had a chance to go fishing.

Caught up with a friend I hadn't seen in a while and he is getting into fishing himself (1 donut at APL to his name so far), so Friday night at APL was a good option to meet and try to get onto at least one fish between us. Weather was pretty average being quite windy and cold, and the wind was causing a bit of trouble with casting our lures. I was casting a 45mm rmg scorpion and he was casting a brown 2.5" Zman grub - trying to manage casting to compensate with the wind and your best guess in the dark as to where the weed edge was made things tough. We made a decision to combat this by moving to a position on the lake where we had the wind at our backs which helped quite a lot.

Before we moved, I had a missed hit which a few casts later turned into an EP of about 30cm and I also managed to unexpectedly (no resistance felt on the retrieve) pull up a lure as well (rapala?)

After the move, apart from a missed hit, I was fishless but my mate managed to get an EP of about 30cm and a yella of under 40cm.

Spoke to a guy later on in the night who said he was a regular and called it a tough night out - so we were both happy to break our donuts there and get 3 fish between us.

Cheers, Chris

Not bad catching a Rapala, pretty hard to do I’d suggest.

Good work and i feel bad for your buddy, casting zmans into wind is a pain as they are so light you have to go heavy on the jig head weights or cast in such a way the wind carrys them (i fish zmans alot in the wind and yea its a pain)

Great report Chris well done.

Well done mate.
Good to hear you finally broke your run of donuts there
Cheers

Break the donut plus rapala (looks like an xrap), pretty good I'd say