Little Orme - 10-05-08
May 11, 2008 14:20:16 GMT -1
Post by johnh on May 11, 2008 14:20:16 GMT -1
Kev Hambo and I launched at the Little Orme end of North shore. The sea was like glass.
We got off to a great start when a small shoal of large mackrel moved through. One or two were well over the pound mark. I managed 6 and Kev had two.
Then it went quiet, so we moved a little further out and had a pretty good day. The final tally was about two dozen Doggies between us. I had three small Cod. Two were about a pound and half the other a real tiddler. Kev also had a couple of small cod and a small Pollack. But Kev stole the day with a nice Smoothie.
It was really funny. His rod was in the holder behind him when it suddenly bent right over. It pulled his Yak round. He was struggling like heck to get the clutch off and get the rod out of holder. All I could hear was swearing and expletives ;D
After a good fight he manged to boat it. Mission accomplished. He'd said at the start he wanted to catch a Smoothie (his first ever), and he did. Nice one mate.
I can see why people go after them. They put up a hell of a fight.
We were on the water from about 9.00 until 4.00. We were really lucky with the weather; apart from cloud keeping temperatures down.
We bumped into DaveADb and two other guys on yaks as we paddled back in.
We were just unloading yaks when the rain came. All in all a good day.
John
We got off to a great start when a small shoal of large mackrel moved through. One or two were well over the pound mark. I managed 6 and Kev had two.
Then it went quiet, so we moved a little further out and had a pretty good day. The final tally was about two dozen Doggies between us. I had three small Cod. Two were about a pound and half the other a real tiddler. Kev also had a couple of small cod and a small Pollack. But Kev stole the day with a nice Smoothie.
It was really funny. His rod was in the holder behind him when it suddenly bent right over. It pulled his Yak round. He was struggling like heck to get the clutch off and get the rod out of holder. All I could hear was swearing and expletives ;D
After a good fight he manged to boat it. Mission accomplished. He'd said at the start he wanted to catch a Smoothie (his first ever), and he did. Nice one mate.
I can see why people go after them. They put up a hell of a fight.We were on the water from about 9.00 until 4.00. We were really lucky with the weather; apart from cloud keeping temperatures down.
We bumped into DaveADb and two other guys on yaks as we paddled back in.
We were just unloading yaks when the rain came. All in all a good day.
John
