First up, Welcome to the Saiko Tackle Blog. The idea of this blog is to inform viewers about our fishing adventures and product news and views. We hope you enjoy our blog, and all of our other content such as videos, images and our online store. Without further delay we will jump into what we have been up to.
So as of today (21/10/2010) we are very close to launching our online tackle store. It has taken us a long time to get it to where we want it and there is still plenty more to come. We will have 6 launch brands including damiki, ecogear, nories, owner, pontoon 21 and yamatoyo. We are very excited to stock these brands on our launch, and we hope you will like our product lineup. We have also been spending a lot of time playing around with video equipment and image editing software so we can bring you some different looking content. Part of this was getting to go out and do some field testing of the equipment last Monday.
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| Chris with a healthy 45cm bass. |
So at about 2.00pm we trotted off to the local weir to chase some bass that had been released from the dam after quite heavy rains in the past few weeks. With camera equipment in hand we had a look around to see what the release of water had done to the surrounding area. There were the obvious dead fish laying around which is always a shame to see, but probably the most interesting find was a 40cm Bass that had some serious injuries, most likely from a fall down the wall. After getting some footage, we shot over to a small weir quite a way downstream from the dam wall. It was pretty quiet when we got there and i think we fished for about an hour without a touch. But as the afternoon rolled on slowly but surely the fish came. First up was a fantastic Bass landed by Chris Gardiner, looked very healthy and after a few quick snaps it was promptly released.
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| My small 40cm Yellowbelly. Great fun on light gear. |
After the first fish the gates opened for a little while and we all got a couple of yellowbelly and a couple of small bass. I think we ended up with about 10 fish for about 2.5 hours fishing which wasn't to bad. 99% of our fishing is catch and release so all fish were released to fight another day, It's always good to find and excuse for a few hours out of the office to. I think the best part about the excursion was that we saw so many people fishing lures, both young and young at heart. Which is great stuff, and says a lot about how popular lure fishing is in Australia. Anyhow here are some of the pictures from the afternoon, we also have completed a test video.....it's not at a standard we like so we might be sticking it in the vault and you will have to wait till our next adventure (very soon) to see some of the footage. It will be worth the wait.
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| My brother James and one of his many bass |
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| Chris with one of the better Golden Perch's. |
