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!