Still not much to report!

A planned kayak fishing trip out on Saturday was spoiled by 10 to 12 mph winds, but I took a work colleague out to Llanrhystud beach later on in the day to give him a go in the Prowler 13 kayak whilst I put the new Malibu 2 tandem kayak through its paces in the surf and chop. We played around in the surf and did a few self and assisted rescues practices over a few hours before dragging the kayaks back up the shingle.

The next day was a lot calmer and we joined Stewart out on a local bass mark - hopes were high when we arrived at the launch as a phone call to Stewart, who was already out on the water since 0830am, confirmed he had had a couple of bass, a bream, a wrasse, a codling and a pollack by then! We paddled out to the mark and put some lures down on the bottom, drifting on the still ebbing tideover some rough ground. After the flood tide started up we hit some small pollack and Stewart eventually had another small bass. It continued fairly quiet throughout the rest of the afternoon, with another bass for Stewart and a pollack for me, followed by a couple of dogfish when I tried with baited shrimp rig for the bream. Mark picked up three solitary mackeral towards the end of the day to avoid a blank too. We were out for around 6 hours, and the sea was a lot calmer than the day before. Not much to show for the 6 hours but a good workout on the arms with all the paddling!

Not much to report

The weather, plus a few weeks lay off after a minor op, hasnt helped my activity levels this summer. Managed to get out on the P13 and our new Malibu 2 tandem for a family and friends beach bbq north of Aberystwyth weekend before last. A lonely mackeral, a gurnard, small pollack and the inevitable dogfish was the result after a couple of hours close in on some bass marks - the bream didnt show either so the bbq was mostly meat!Taking most of this week off work and the wind is predictably breezy! By 4pm last night, and following a phone call from another local who was just finishing work, I put the P13 on the car and met up with Nifty near Aberaeron. No surf but quite choppy, and the paddle out to usual bass marks was tiring against wind and a 5.5m flood tide. We bobbed around for a couple of hours, Nifty at anchor and me racing accross the mark on the big flood tide, trying a variety of bottom and suface lures. As the wind started picking up to 10mph around 7pm I paddled in (well flew in actually with wind and tide behind me!) followed by Nifty. A double blank but nice to get out again for a paddle, and the surf wasnt too big - I managed a nice fast plough up into the shingle, wheras Nifty got flooded by a second big wave from behind when he hit the shore Weather is looking better for Saturday, and with bass to 4.5lb coming in last weekend, hopes are set high for this coming weekend when the bass might come off the bottom in the lighter tides.