Hi there, My name is Glenn Kilpatrick. I am a lifelong and highly dedicated sea angler. I love fishing all over the Yorkshire coast from : shore, boat, or kayak. My first memories of fishing were of catching small coalies in the harbour at Whitby. I fell in love with rock fishing in my late teens, and more recently I have discovered a passion for kayak fishing, with a special liking for sportsfish such as bass and pollack. Through my blog I aim to give an update on my fishing outings. The blog will act as a diary for myself and hopefully give a few others something interesting to read.
A New Method And A Big Fish – Freelining Sandeels
Well it was a rather strange night to say the least. After last weeks sucess with the sandeels I went in search of some more. First drop down, a weaver. I went to cut it off and the thing jumped in the air and landed on my hand – Ouch !!!
I paddled in, close enough [...]
A New Species For Me – Plaice
Just returned from an interesting day afloat at Sandsend. Not lots of fish, but I managed a news species for me, a plaice, and a nice pollack on the float and 2 bass over 3lb.
I had managed to source a few lugworm, some sandeel and some squid from Rods and Reels shop in Whitby so [...]
Into Darkness
The usual suspects launched from Sandsend early this evening. First part of the evening was spent plugging pretty close in. I cant remember what the other guys had but there was a fair sprinkling of bass and Pollack around.
At 8ish we headed over onto the soft ground and did some bait fishing. Pretty [...]
Second Session Of The Day And A PB Bass
On our second outing of the day, myself and Mike met with Dan and Damo at a venue north side of Whitby. It was not long into the flood tide when we started. The water colour had cleared from its very murky state over the past few days. We had wondered if the water clarity [...]
The Bass Bug
Well it appears the bass bug has struck. The weather of late has been a little bit to much to get out on the kayak with moderate south to south west winds for over a week. There has been a bit of northerly swell in the water but nothing too much, so the last few days the bass bug has struck and Ive been out with the plugging rod in search of those silver bullets.
Another Day Another Bass + Wet Legs
Well Im a firm believer in the saying that you always learn by your mistakes and today I learnt from yet another mistake. I had decided to fish in my thigh waders and was happily stood at the waters edge when the first wave broke over me and down the thigh waders. The following half [...]
A Night On The Bass
Firstly my apologies for not posting for such a long time. I have been doing a lot of fishing and angling related activities including helping out with the Whitby Angling Festival. I will try do a few more updates of whats been happening recently for me.
Last night was a few hours bass fishing with my [...]
A Scratching Session
Ive had a couple of launches fishing around the piers and then last night at Sandsend. I watched tons of mackerel and Billet been caught from the west pier, however I seemed to struggle for numbers of fish partly due to drift speed. I think this is one occasion where being stuck on dry land [...]
A Win But A Loss
Today – 16th July 2009 saw roughly a dozen members of the Whitby fishing forum meet up at Sandsend for an evening kayak fishing. The match was on a north vs south format with the deviding line being cloughton near Scarborough. Anglers from north of the line formed the northen infadels team whilst those from [...]
Filey Brigg Kayak Fishing Match
Thirty Plus anglers fished the Filey Brigg Angling Society Summer kayak Fishing match. Anglers left the beach near the Filey Country Yaucht club at 9am this morning. The first 2 hours fishing were slow for most anglers with only a hand full of fish falling to a few people fishing bait. However Ray Maddison used [...]
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