todays kayak blog
took a look at The good old magic seaweed last night and figured it was OK for a bit of yakking in the morning, so a quick call to the Yak miester, Quint and a chat about venue. following a couple of recent trips to the flatlands south of Bridlington , I have developed a severe allergy to sand & mud so we agreed it was maybe time to start muscling in on those prime Areas north of Whitby. We did receive a bit of help & encouragement from one of the natives although he requested we keep it quiet
. so site selected & programmed in to the faithful Garmin & of we go.
Nice easy launch for a change, pity about giving the council another fiver though.
quint brought some groundbait.
once on our chosen mark we selected a depth of about 55ft which was our max depth due to the 150ft anchor string that i carry
lovely morning and nice to see cliffs again. for the technical amongst you the Paddle from our launch site was 1.98miles & took 41minutes at an average speed of 2.39mph
from our vantage point we could clearly see Bambi leaping about the cliffs & a flock of french partridges flying by(subtle link to another thread
) did have flipper around for a while that was nice to see.
anyway i dropped anchor & quint latched onto my stern in our now practiced way with a good ebb coming through we both put lines down tide. there was a touch too much current for the 5oz leads we had on and our lines were tripping away across the bottom. I was using a fine braid and because of this was able to get my bait to fish & promptly hooked into a nice codling of about 4lb. At this point quint once again amazed me with his knowledge of all things fishy, even before it arrive on the surface he could tell it was a female full of Roe, and shouted over Spawney B*stard
Anyway the current was obviously a bit strong for the tactics we were using, so i rigged my other rod with a 5oz gripper & cast it up tide & let the line bow as described on the site. not long to wait before another bite & i wound up & promptly hooked another smaller female with eggs(how can he tell ?).
so method sorted we both fished in the new to us uptide mode & soon quint was into fish & the smile returned, i asked if this one was spawney as well, but he said no this was skill ?
so we finished with a couple of codling each & a bleg & and undersized lobster, not fantastic but a good mornings entertainment & we then decided to go exploring the exposed scaurs of fillet tail to take a few photo's unfortunately i forgot to wipe the water off the lens so a few good shots turned out useless. here is a selection of the others
speed trials on the p15, time to go home
