Friday 30th sept. The day of the Rain.....

It rained today....no ... i mean it RAINED today.... but i went anyway ...after work...
Got to Roches point...the mouth of Cork Harbour, and looked out.
"YA... i can do that...its only swell .. no breaking waves..."
I went.
I could not fish.
I trolled some flies....it got exciting paddling in the swell...
I took some video footage on my new phone with HD video....
I got home and only had 3 seconds of video....
"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
My dare devil kayak fishing deed is lost........

Gutted.......................

no comment....

Baltic flies....

I have ordered a couple of flies to try for the pike later on again.
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check it out!
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Ladies mini marathon...

Yes.. the girls were out in force today for the marathon.....more money for Down syndrome Ireland... a great cause.....well done girls!

Chasing Mr. P.

I had a day off today, and even though the forecast was for windy southerlies, i made a plan to go inland.
A beautiful spot, although i wont say where, it was calm and flat early in the morning.
I had left the house at 5.15am once the flask was made and the yak loaded.
Well the plan was to fish with fly mostly, but as the morning went on the wind increased and made it very hard, so later i went to the lure.
But i did manage a Jack on a weird orange/lure flash combo.....
A few pic's of the day.......
There was a little blood on the Jack, but i checked and the hook had missed the gill's, also the hooks used are Barb less.
He swam off very strongly...

Searching for the G.G.

I got a chance to get out this afternoon and thought i would check out if the gg's were fully in.
(Golden Grey Mullet)
I set up the fly rod with a floating shooting head..a 10lb drennan leader down to 4lb fluorocarbon tip and a deeper czech nymph.....
But alas i could not locate them in any great numbers.
So i switched to a sinking line and a bleeding clouser and sand eel pattern and i could not find Billy either!!
So all i have are some pretty yak pics!
Nice to be out there though.
I am beginning to wonder about the Bass season though????

A first on the fly again...

Started on a floating line (Rio outbound) and as the light started to go the fish came on....
A couple of Mac's and a few Pollack.. and then a scad.. a new one on fly...
All cought on a bleeding clouser... but i switched to the inter. sinking line as it got late to try for a Pollack or Bass under the feeding fish...
But no Billy tonight......



Scad.....







QM2 was heading out .......

More wind.....

Yes... not me... the weather ...its poor to say the least.
Watching for a chance to get out.
nd the evenings are getting short.....Nooooooooooooooo!!!!!