Just got back from the Lake Tyers trip just under an hour ago, still winding down from the long drive and unpacking stuff to be cleaned and dried.
Was a great trip, lovely place to camp with beautiful scenery and lots of wildlife, unfortunately didn't get a touch the entire time to continue my great streak of donuts. Still I enjoyed getting away from it all for a few days but there were a fair few hiccups along the way.
First hiccup was that the kayak hire place had recently sold their Hobies and no longer did hire which led to us scrambling to organise a hire of any kind of kayak on the way there. Managed to hire two 3M sit on tops, but they were not at all fishing kayaks which made it a bit more difficult to fish. Didn't bring any bait as we had nowhere to keep it cold, so plastics and hardbodies were the go for the entire trip. My attempt at getting livebait was a failure too as nothing was getting caught in the trap.
First day had a very strong westerly wind which confined us to a very small stretch of the lakes that was sheltered enough to paddle, no chance I was going to take that on in a dinky little 3m yak.
Second day was significantly calmer, launched at 9 we were able to paddle further up the Nowa Nowa arm and cover much more water, but still no fish. Lots of mullet around the entire day, nearly every 5 minutes one of the buggers would jump out of the water as if to taunt me because I wasn't getting any action from other fish. We drifted around 5kms from our camp up the arm flicking plastics around but no dice. Headed back in the afternoon, meandering back towards camp with still no fish to be seen.
croe
