finding my feet...

Camera?

Q520

I bought a mountain bike a little while back, and i have really enjoyed getting back into cycling.
As a kid i used to cycle miles to go fishing, on a "racer" i bought with my confirmation money!!
Up to now i have only done a little "off road" stuff and it does feel like great fun...
So now i am looking for a few spots to go in the Autumn and winter to fill in between the fishing trips.
So i hope to bring my new camera too and practice a little with that also.....
So i guess ... watch this space....
Oh a new label needed??... em? ....photogcycle?
Time is everything these days....but if i get a few trips in it will be good fun...and Emily my oldest got a rightous off-roader too!

Plopsicle.............

Time to do a bit of fly fishing off the top, the Bass were bulling for the feed shallows just under the surface.....
Gurgler... plopsicle... and crease fly.... on a floating Rio out bound #9 line and a 9ft leader 10lb straight through.....
I have been using Stroft, but i'm going back to the Drennan for now.....

Guess who caught the Bass in the link above? click on the plopsicle!

EDIT... just back and the weather didnt play ball.. very windy and very coloured water.....ah well ...a bit of a wild goose chase!!

Mr. Fish Jersey.

I went out on the kayak on Friday evening with the Feed shallow lures that i ordered from Mr. Fish in Jersey.
I trolled out to a mark over reef with a parfeel re-gill and after loads of plucks landed a small Pollack.
Enough of that! They were obviously all pretty small if they cant get that down their gob!
The lure i tried first was the feed-shallow mullet 128 and ...it stayed on for the rest of the evening.
After landing one on the yak, i made my way to a spot only accessible by sea and pulled in for a break.
So ...then cast the lure and five more fell to the mullet lure in about an hour and a half....
It looks great in the water and the Bass inhaled it.... 6 in total.
A great evening out and it was dark when i returned to the launch spot.
Home for a pack of Tayto and a cold beer!
Thanks Mr Fish!

They arrived....

Well the cult Lures are here, and i guess i should give them a go....

Converting lures to single hooks....

I am not too sure about the conversions i tried, the weight of the hooks may be affecting the action of the lures, so i must try them a few more times to get a feel for what's happening....

Heart stopper......

Had an explosion of water on a slug-go rigged weedless (black) this evening, a heart stopper!
But no hook up, and she took off......
tried lots of other stuff too.....
but failed........thats Bass fishing........

Back to the hot spot....

On Monday evening last, i got back to the hot spot from last week.The weather was great, and all the signs were good.. as i unloaded the gear to the yak. I had brought my old rod, from the early eighties..which my daughter uses now ...to have a bit of fun on some light tackle. And as i paddled there, i noticed the birds (gull's) sitting on the rocks, also there were no gannets or terns diving...in fact, no sign of life at all really....
So.. i trolled a red gill in blue and white... and nothing happened... after a while i drifted across a good reef in deeper water and cast out ..sink and draw... bang ..the Pollack were on form...
and after a fish every cast and i don't know how many, i got fed up and tried to pursue the quarry i came for...
Different lures and Sp's resulted in nothing except the occasional pollack...
That's Bass fishing...
They were away somewhere else.......

A welcome Pee break, resulted in a lovely part of the world...





Ended up playing hide and seek in the yak...........