Kayakfishing Chat - continues

[nifty]

Simon,Olly

 

Re Char fishing : I'm no expert on the intricacies of char fishing but each year i spend a few days at the end of July camping on the side of Coniston. The best method i have found from the boat is a maggot feeder with an 18in hooklength and double red maggot on a size 18 hook lobbed about 20 yds from the boat and feathered down to the bottom which can take upto a minute. At that time of year from what i can gather you need the deepest water you can find and in Coniston that's around 180ft so make sure there's plenty of rope on the anchor. Fishing that way i've had a few Char and the odd Brown trout to about 12oz. The down side of fishing this depth is the fish don't seem able to recover from being hauled up.

 

Instead,Why not fish for the Pike and perch in the margins, they are far more sporting and the pike in coniston fight harder than any pike i've ever caught before.

 

nifty.

[***oLLy***]

Hi YY

It felt like it could do with being longer, I told them it was for SOT as well, do you know how much a splice will be?

[Yakity - Yak - u.k.]

What is the shaft made from Olly ??

[***oLLy***]

Hi yy

Fibreglass

 

olly

[nifty]

yakity,

 

The best suggestion i can make regarding fly fishing in the sea is keep it simple and don't get carried away with trying the "must have" fly of the moment, otherwise you'll spend all day deciding which one to use and end up missing the fish (like i do). I've had more success with basic trout patterns like baby dolls and fritz in white and peppermint green on size 6/8 than i have with shop bought bass flies, though i must admit this winter i have tied up a box full of beauties that can't fail after copying patterns on the swff site.

 

nifty.

[Yakity - Yak - u.k.]

Are you able to contact the people who sold you the Paddle??

Might be worth shaming them into replacing it for you.

Before you go for the splice. You went on thier advise after all.

They should have know it would be to short for you.

Did they not measure you, (hands over the head etc??)

 

yy

[Yakity - Yak - u.k.]

Hi Nifty.

 

To late

I have shop bought Bass paterns, plus poppers, plus what Snatch has sent to me.

 

Will be trying a selected few, for most of the season, and sticking with them.

Know what your saying re trying em all,never get through em.

 

 

YY

[***oLLy***]

Might be a bit tricky the people who I got the Mambo from told me to go to stand with the ainsworth paddles on and pick one to suit me because he was getting a supply of paddles from them so he supplied the size I told him, the size they told me complicated isnt it, and know they didnt measure me just looked at me and said im never far out.You just take it for granted sometimes being in the trade they should know.

olly

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