Ocean to City 2011......

Last paddle....

Home after a last training paddle tonight....next sat.morning kayak briefing is at 10:00am....an Ras Mor!

level 2.

Just in after a great night on the water with Phoenix kayak club...and passed my level 2.
All good!
Next to join the club and get my roll nailed in the clinics.......

Last chance.

Out for a shore romp with lured and fish in front of me but they just wouldnt take .......
Ban now on ...... That's fishing I guess ....
poor start to 2012 ;-(

11ft Fladen rod.
Shimmy reel.
Feed shallow 128 mullet lure. (hard plastic)
Red gill evolution ..pearl/black sp.
Hodgy sp in black on weedless jig head.

Bass ban

Well it's looming ......no bass yet!

Fluff chucking.....

Fluff chucking for Bass but alas no joy...but a tidy Pollack and a few more fish fingers....the fly rod rocks, its the way to go for sure......

River Lee paddle...

The weather being bad i did something i have been meaning to do for a long time.....

Paddle training...with an eel...

Got out after work on Friday to do a bit of training, and the plan was to paddle around Spike island and on down towards Roche's Point on the west side of the harbour.
I trolled an eddy stone eel as i went...why not??
Straight away the weed was an issue and to make matters worse when i got around the island a small craft warning came out via the VHF.
It got a bit lumpy and i headed for the west side of the harbour again and paddled along but the weed was a big problem,so i decided to backtrack and head to a well know point in the harbour to troll around for a while, but alas, no hits on the eel.
Its a slow start this season!
That's fishing, and the summer is coming!