APL bank account opened

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APL bank account opened

Post by happyfriggincamper » Sat Mar 06, 2021 3:46 pm

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.
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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?)
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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.
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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

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Post by Troy McLure » Sat Mar 06, 2021 5:34 pm

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

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Post by saph » Sat Mar 06, 2021 6:01 pm

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)

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Post by rb85 » Sat Mar 06, 2021 7:38 pm

Great report Chris well done.
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Post by Lightningx » Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:19 pm

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

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Re: APL bank account opened

Post by Sebb » Tue Mar 09, 2021 6:00 pm

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