Yamaha WaveRunners Australia Displays New “JetFish” WaveRunner at Melbourne Boat Show

Allow us to preface this story by assuring that The Watercraft Journal will be following up on this unique and amazing machine once the Melbourne and Sydney, Australia boat shows are finalized. That being said, what you’re looking at is the culmination of over two decades worth of industry growth in the branch of personal watercraft fishing.

While still struggling to pick up momentum in the States, “jet ski fishing” (or what we like to call “jetangling”) has ballooned into a voracious industry around Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, and South Africa. Even to the extent of several PWC-based fishing shows being some of the most popular programming in these respective countries.

So until fishermen in the United States finally pulls their collective heads out of the sand, we’ll have to sit back and watch our brethren in the Southern Hemisphere continue to push boundaries and the limits of what it means to be a sports fishermen. So whit, Yamaha WaveRunners Australia has fully embraced the PWC fishing industry so much as to present this gorgeous, fully-rigged example of what is needed to be a jetangler.

In addition to LED running lights (allowing the FX SVHO WaveRunner to operate in pre-dawn, post-dusk conditions), a Lowrance fish finder/sounder was installed, as was a pair of fishing pods (the side-mounted pontoons) that operate as bait tanks, coolers, cutting boards and stabilizers.

Christened the “Jetfish,” the FX SVHO shown here is otherwise scant on details – for now. Whether this will be a model available through Australian and New Zealand Yamaha dealers, or a dealer-installed package remains unseen. Of course, we’ll have more information has the boat show season wraps up, but for now, we Americans have a lot of catching up to do!