Kayak Fishing trip

Sorry I haven’t posted for a few days, but I managed to go out on an 8hr Kayak fishing session. The tides were poor, fishing a small tide all the way down, but the weather was great and the sea conditions were really good. This is the first real long trip I have had in the fishing Kayak and I have been a bit sore since.

The fishing was OK, not great. I managed about 4 Wrasse, 4 Mackerel and a host of small Bass. The Wrasse fell to my Mackerel lures baited with Lug worm, The Mackerel were hard to catch, they were 20 - 25 foot deep and took hockeye lures. The Bass all took a J11 Rapala.

The Bass fishing was great sport on my ultra light spinning rod, but the largest was about 1.5lb in weight, so they all went back unharmed!!

I spent the first few hours drifting a sand eel bait across the sea bed to try for a Turbot. The drifts were just under a knot and I could hold bottom with about ½ an ounce, fishing a single hook running ledger. From there I got the lure out and plugged the base of the cliff which resulted in the school Bass.

I then saw a crab boat dropping some pots well off shore, I paddled out about 1 - 1.5 miles and fished a load of drifts over some rough ground. I was scratching for anything, so I used baited mackerel lures and that’s when I got the Wrasse. It was on one of the drops that I hit the first Mackerel, so I fished for my tea for about 1 hour and only managed the 4 Mackerel.

As I said not the best Kayak fishing trip, but I got some numbers for my GPS marking the rough ground, Tea and a great sun tan!