Quick trip with soft plastic lures only...

A quick trip out tonight off the shore, and the sea was pretty "snotty" both in terms of wave height and weedy conditions.......
But i managed a small school size fish and a follow...
So a result i guess....
The finesse 7 inch worm on a jig head, did the biz for me... I tried several other types of lure but got weed every cast....

Kayak fishing Heaven.....

Yes... fishing heaven... one of those days you think.."IT cant get any better than this...."
Set the alarm for 3:45am... but my phone is set not to alarm on Saturday or Sunday...D'oh!
Sat bolt upright in the bed at 4:15 am and wondered why the alarm didn't go off?
The car was loaded, so a quick Java and away!
Launched in perfect conditions and set the fly rod up with a small red-gill eel on an inter. sinking line ... the mark was a paddle away and i could troll to it..
The rest is history, i watched the gulls working the surface and where ever they went i did too and i got hit after hit of some quality fish and they all fought well on the fly rod..The final tally was ten Bass and two pollack..(usually the other way round without the Bass...lol..)
Back to the launch spot later to see a nice rolling surf in to the beach, so everything strapped down and the mobile slipped inside my dry suit neck!!
I got taken by a wave, but leaned back and braced out with the paddle and surfed in perfectly!!
What a morning!!!!!


Edit.... The video just does not do the situation justice... but its only a mobile phone! Sorry!

Attack of the clones.......

Well, the conditions were spot on, but not a sign of a bass.
I fished for 4.5 hours off the kayak, and my bum grew on to it....
My legs were like sp's when i got in, and my bladder the size of a rugger ball.....
But the clones came and they came and i got fed up taking pics of them.
The Single hooks on the lures worked well, and the slug-go caught fish too... how do they fit it down their mouth???
I used a new sp too http://www.agmdiscountfishing.co.uk/floating-finesse-worm-blush-6pcs-p-1813.html
and it got hammered each time.. i think this will be good in another spot i know away from the pollack....

More conversions....

weather to fish or not?

Weather is all over the place!
So... Plan hatched..... Monday... Lure only.....North westerly winds....
A trip outside the harbour must be on...
Come On The Bass!


Time to try my experiments!!

Dash for Bass ends in disappointment...

Fly rod and a few bits and bobs... anchor/ drogue nav light...
Straight after work to a spot i found during my paddle training...
And when i got there it was full of weed.... brown sludge weed...no.. not a correct scientific name for it...in the water it was pretty, but it just clung to the knots and flies ... and i could not escape it... i gave up around half ten.....





Again no sign of sprat or sand eel ... still cold and windy too .... summer???????

Spot the difference.....

Some more experimenting...........

Cork Meet.

Where are you off to dad?

Yes... the Kayak meet was finally here... about 15 yaks on the water...

The sat avo was very windy, but we made the best of it in a sheltered spot... or so we thought till the wind shifted!



We all fished hard but only two Bass were caught and i had blanked..



Heading in the end of a difficult day....







Some chaps got up in to cobh and raided an off licence!





Back to the campsite (Thanks Pat!) and some food and a few beers...



the doggies were raiding......

6 A.M. Sun. ....Joe's Kelly kettle caused holiday flight mayhem!

The earwigs in it made the coffee taste better...



Roche's point! and a big swell but little chop... real kayak fishing!













Well no Bass for me, but lots of pollack on lure and mostly fly rod... Two good Bass were taken though....
The Pollack were down deep and the Rio T-11 line got down fast, and trolled very well indeed.....conditions got worse and I headed in to the shelter of the harbour and had more Pollack, but smaller....
Great weekend!