Salt water fly fishing from my Kayak

Well the weather was looking nice this evening, the tide was dropping which is not the best tide state in my opinion for fishing a new mark but I had 4 hours and I decided to go Saltwater fly fishing from my RTM disco kayak. I am hoping for some sport with mackerel and gar fish if not a few bass and pollock this season, so I have been tweaking my fishing gear for the best performance and I wanted to try out the shooting head I made from an old medium sinking line I had lying around. Just to clarify a shooting head is a length of fly line tuned and cut to length which is design to cast and carry a running line. The theory being you do not need so much line out to cast along way, hence easier to do when kayak fishing (seated). I will talk more about shooting heads another day!!

I went to Dennis head to try salt water fly fishing as this location was out of the wind and the sea state was calm and after a short paddle I started fishing. The area off the head is very rocky with loads of broken ground which runs into clean sand towards the mouth of St Antony. There was a small swell running, but I rigged up and started to practice my casting. I can cast a fly fairly well, but saltwater fly fishing from a kayak while seated was altogether a new experience with a shooting head. The whole process was simple to start with and getting the head out of the rod was easy but every time I would put extra energy into the last cast, sending the loop of line into a tumbling mess. Having said that a small Pollock of about 3 inches, thought that the presentation was perfect and snapped the fly up and drove towards the sea bed. A very short session of playing the fish resulted in me landing this small monster (Bless it)

Towards the end of the session I started to click with fly fishing from the kayak and got into the swing of thing hitting the marker on my line telling me I was at about 30 meters which is ideal for the moment. I am hoping that I will be able to fish again tomorrow if the weather holds. I am hoping for some hot sun to drive the fish near the surface for some action on the fly rod but we will see.

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