It is oar powered. You can see the oar in his left hand. It looks small because it is angled towards/away from the camera.

We use an anchor because we jump off. Most fishermen wouldn't bother. To avoid capsizing, I'd imagine you would hold the rod pointing over the front tip of the yak when fighting hardest, as it is much harder to capsize in that direction. Actually landing a large fish would be interesting. Being dragged along is not a problem. In fact it is probably a good strategy as it tires the fish out without tiring you out as much. You aren't going to get taken too far.

I usually go spearfishing, so I get in the water with a mask and snorkel, rather than sitting in the boat twiddling my thumbs. You need an anchor in case there is wind or current that blows the yak away.

Sorry I was looking at the wrong photo. Yes they do appear to be peddle powered. Some people don't 'get' how to stear with oars, so you turn the kayak into a bicycle for them. I guess they are tourists, though they seem to have fishing rods also. Maybe they have dropped the oars and have their feet lifted because they are crapping themselves.

What? Is towed by dolphins?

finally i delved deeper into the site, apart from just clicking on 'recent posts'....

i bought a kayak about 12 months ago...heres a photo. i know you all hate links...http://www.vikingkayak.com.au/fishing_kayaks_tempo.htm#Tempo%20Fisherman%20II

ive only used it in cressbrook dam near brisbane, but we are moving to the redland bay area soon, so itll get a workout then...

is a pretty good canoe really. it has foot steering, trottle control on a hndpiece beside the boat, which you set and is basically hands free. i have a little electric motor on it that goes at a quick walking pace....

oh yeah. ive caught 1 bass from it..

imperial wrote on Aug 21^st, 2008 at 4:42am:


Hey, I've got 1 bass last sunday too but let her go as they still spawn down here.

freediver wrote on Aug 29^th, 2008 at 8:24pm:



I've got this one on 4lb line and size 10 hook with a bread dough, I wasn't after bass at all just exercising and fooling around rapids. I love my river and will go there tomorrow or Sunday again just to relax and sink into nature again. That is what kayak fishing is about.

If you don't mind me overloading resources of your site I will post more pictures about the river in future.

It's hard to figure who belongs to what in the photo thread FD - and what was that revolting giant snake photo about - you didn't kill it and eat it for dinner I hope.

If you use photobucket - you can make your photos smaller easily - so they don't take up too much band space/width and people can see instantly what the post is about without having to sort through stuff that's not related.  Only a suggestion.

http://photobucket.com/login

some more pictures from the river last weekend.


The firefly is quite a sight
In the summer night

Unfortunately the above photo doesn't make a justice to nature's  own fireworks display when these magical bugs dance en mass along river shore



Just common crazy bugs doing crazy pirouettes in man made light




A diamond python after dining on a flying fox