K.A.I. Mini mini meet!

I met with Joe and Edgar from K.A.I on a cool but calm Saturday morning for a spot of Bass lure fishing inside Cork Harbour.
The Fishing was slower than expected with two Bass and a single Mackerel Caught.
It was a nice big tide 4.1 meter..a very enjoyable morning though..

All set up at 4:30 am to be there for 5:00am....

getting sorted....



Lunch break....

Edgar thrashing the water to a foam at times!

Several miles paddled..

Joe got Sunday dinner...this is a nice size to eat...

I got to test my Bruce anchor in a very strong current.....

My only Bass of the day ...6lb



going back to fight another day...

Photography

I know nothing about camera's...when fishing i use my Nokia Phone and put a silicone case on it, to help protect it...
Someday i may invest in a proper waterproof camera...but for now, i will keep using my phone...........cheap and cheerful!

slugs.

Rocky Bay sea like glass.....

Out at Rocky bay with the Family...you dont see it like this very often... Girls had a great time... and i pondered about the fishing over the reef's to the right....

Into the wesht!

5 hour seis off the yak with lure and fly in west cork produced a lot of Pollack...lost count..the largest taking an 18cm Mackerel lure.....

After work session

Left work and headed to launching spot...set up my gear and then realised i had left my Phone in my work pants...
No photo's on this trip....
Launched and trolled to the venue....nothing...got there and nestled in between the rocks spinning in to deep-ish water..
Threw out lures and nothing...then put on a shad... two casts and bang ...fish on....landed ..admired and released..3 lb

Several casts later ...another about 3.5lb...returned....
Then nothing for a while then a fish and it came off.....
Then a very good take and i got pulled out of my weedy parking space... i grabbed for the rock...and oops ...very nearly went over ...
Dumb!
somehow got back in to the weed and played the fish.....nice one about 5.5lb ....
Later got a hit and my shad came back minus its red tail!!!!
Changed lure to a plain one, but nothing.......
Trolled back to launch spot...
Lesson learned....NEVER TRY TO LEAN OVER AND GRAB A ROCK...
Sorry about the lack of photo,s

Lure was just like this ...but with a red paddle tail and a mackerel pattern...


Ah....found a pic at last....tempest sidewinder...firemac

Chasing silver again!

Well ..longlegs could not make it...(another Kayaker)......So up at 6:45 and off to venue.
Out, on to the water, and on the first drift with a chartreuse fly, trolled behind me...and.. BANG.. fish on ... good size too..Fly was from Andy... Chasing Silver.
Its a chartreuse flatwing tied on a tiemco 600sp..
Later i got a take on the lure rod, but it came off...and that was it ...
loads of shore anglers there too, (later on) but they all blanked... so not a bad result i suppose... but i thought i would get more......
Thats fishing......... (C&R of course)

Summer evening sea Bass......

Went out to a spot i wanted to try for a couple of weeks now to fish the incoming tide into darkness... Got there to find my tide times were slightly out, so set up and waited for some water to paddle on! Eventually set off and started to troll the spot that i liked the look of... Nothing happened for quite a while, then as it was getting dark the rod doubled over and the tell tale head shaking began...Bass on! I must say, this fish put up a great fight ...the best yet...the yak turned and got towed in the still air and water...after a while it came up and with a quick Boga grip a lovely fish came aboard... Hooked just in the corner of the mouth... and hook out...no problem....









Release time