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Exmouth Anglers Afloat / R.N.L.I. Meet 17th/18th May 2008

yakerbass — Mon, 26 May 2008 20:26:41 +0000

Paul, Mark, & myself attended the Exmouth meet over last weekend organised by Anglers Afloat & John and Helen. Kayakdiver organised the fishing comp on Sunday. What a fantastic weekend with a superb turn out. It was really nice to see so many friendly Kayak Anglers.

The weekend went like this.

Saturday: trade stalls by Ocean Kayak range along with Hobie’s Mirage Drive Kayaks and Wilderness Systems, Demo fleet were available for trial. Awareness for both the RNLI and kayak fishermen, with rescue demos throughout the day. Raffle tickets were on sale during the event with all proceeds going to the RNLI, amongst the prizes, is a top prize of an Ocean Kayak Caper sit-on-top, complete with PFD and paddle. Beer & B-B-Q at the camp site P.M.

Sunday: Early start for the Kayak Fishing Comp that was well organised by Kayakdiver, unfortunately the weather hamperd the fishing so due to safety reasons the fishing comp was called off. Prize giving back at the camp site.

We want to thank all that were involved in the organising of this event it was a total sucsess and hope that this wil take place again in 2009.

Rob, Mark & Paul

A couple of hours on the water 23-04-08

yakerbass — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:40:18 +0000

Had to work this morning it was supposed to be a day off, but the needs of the business and all that rubbish, this affected my Kayak fishing plans. I wanted to fish the Slapton sands area for Couches Bream but did not have enough time to get that far over so decided for the easy option Torquay, by the time I got set up and on the water it was about 11 am. Fished and Paddled for two hours (see picture of paddle route) I used Peeler crab for bait with a normal running ledger rig hoping to pick up a Pollock or wrasse but no such luck, not a sniff not even a bite!

But the weather was very nice which made for a pleasant Paddle.

Looking Back 11/03/07 / Salcombe Estuary Fishing Report

yakerbass — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:14:20 +0000

Not many fish but a good day had by all ; )

Very early start !!! Mark and Chinny Were knocking on my door at 4:45,
we loaded the 3 yaks on to marks galaxy and set off to meet jonsok.

Made our way to North sands in Salcombe Just across the Estuary from
East Portlemouth, arrived about 5:30, it seemed an age before we had unpacked
the gear and ready for the water, it might of had something to do with Chinny cooking
sausage and bacon butties for breakfast ; ) Also the immaculate bate preparation
and distribution by mark !!! What a star, and don’t stop eating Chinese food mark the
containers were spot on.

The North sands car park cost for the day was £4 so not too bad, I think it was about

6:30 by the time we were heading down the ramp to the beach, by this time the wind had

built up to a steady southerly (the forecast was s/w) ? right in our face for a tricky launch.

We had no issues on launch apart from a full cockpit of water. We then headed towards

the sand bars close to the mouth, the Idea was to paddle out and let the wind blow us

across the fishing ground, we managed to do this for a while and jonsok hooked a small

pollack, and mark a whiting.
The swell got a little big so we headed into the estuary where things were a little better

for a while.
Jonsok tried his luck deeper into the Estuary and we stopped for a cuppa and a chat

about tactics, we decided to give the area close to the beach a try as Chinny hooked

up with a whiting on the way in, this is where the fun and games started.

We spread out to give ourselves enough room to fish and conditions seemed to be a

little better so we decided to anchor up, this turned out to be the wrong thing to do for

me ! I did not have enough line out on my anchor and the swell picked up again before

I could react, I had capsized.
I up righted my kayak on the second attempt and mounted it on the first, everything

went well apart from the loss of one VHF Radio but that will be replaced.

We headed back to the beach to sort my yak and put some dry clothes on, after a nice warm cuppa I was ready
to fish again, we headed back out to meet up with Jonsok on the south sands beach to

find out how he got on. Jonsok decided to land on South sands due to the heavy waves crashing on North sands, it was much calmer over that side so we decided to fish that

area, Jonsok1 called it a day, ( loved your new yak BTW Jon, see pic )the fishing was

very slow I hooked up with a coley and mark had a reasonable wrasse.we fished on until about 4:30 then headed back to Northsands ( Thought about landing at South Sands but Chinny talked us out of it, but I have got a feeling he wished he did not : )

The waves looked fine from a distance but as we approached them we realised caution was needed. I went first and
mark followed with no issues, chinny next !!!! whoops a wave turned him sideways and over he went we rushed to his
aid but he was fine ( let the laughter begin) he had one of the self inflating life jackets on and it worked fine (see pic )
he lost an anchor and a pair of sunglasses so not too bad.