I managed to get 5 hrs fishing in today off my RTM Disco Kayak after spending yesterday plotting reefs and wrecks onto my new Garmin 60 GPS.

I headed to Porthoustock and launched towards the Manacles, about 1 mile from the beach. The conditions were great, sunny, slight swell, light winds and small tides. Ideal for a first explore of a location.

On getting there I headed towards a point and lowered a string of 3 lures, flashing Mackerel lures as I didn’t have a lot of tackle with me. BANG went the rod and I hauled up a Pollock – ¾ to 1lb in weight. I unhooked this and lowered the rig down again this time bringing up a launce.

I decided to free line the launce for a while, drifting off the back of Vase rock but I didn’t catch. Next time I will fish the launce hard to the bottom instead of free lining it.

I released my launce and attached the string of lures and headed back towards the Vase rocks. There were dive boats working in front of me and a couple of private fishing boats to my side. I noticed that I was drifting at about ½ the speed of most craft, which was giving me longer in the fish zones, but I did have to give way to the Bigger boats. I got close about 3 times to what I thought was the crown of rocks breaking the surface, then I noticed as I almost hit on that it was infact Mullet in huge rafts. The number of the fish was immeasurable and the size of the individual mullet I could see were 2-4lbs. I have never seen Mullet behave like this in the open sea before. I have seen it in Torquay marina many years ago. The Kayak was so stealthy that I could almost float over them without them diving for cover. To just see this one sight today was worth it.

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