Moonyaker
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Now come on chaps, you cannot go holding referendae on obscure kayak fishing websites and expect the results to be considered meaningful... it is hardly democratic is it?
What is this 'Anglers Afloat', website ?
Just a load of garb about 'safety' and that sort of boring stuff and 'how to modify your Yak for trawling' or 'how to eat a fish finger on a Caper and a Prowler' and 'how to get off your trolley if you're an anchor'.... or something along those lines.......
' Its all about Driling Holes in your Kayak', as far as I can see......now like that makes sense?!!!!!!!!!!
These results don't mean crock!
After all...The Dorado only got one vote..........
Moonyaker
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Scupper Pro TW. 'Nil Points'.......'Non!' Mon Dieu'.' Ow can zees be?'
Zees must have been 'pole dancing!' eet cannot ave been 'real pole', surely.....
.....Scupper would have got at least 5 votes.
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http://www.anglersnet.co.uk/forums/index.p...=57261&st=0
As I recall there were a couple of posts after this about trips from the National Trust car park serving Warbarrow just north as Mark says in the village (Tyneham) but they involved manhandling the kayaks onto the beach in a two-man operation.
You can also paddle round from Kimmeridge but that is a bit further than from Lulworth.
As Richi says...the 'Cat in the Hat' is the expert on this area
Or should that be 'The Man in the Cat Hat'? Moonyaker
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It's a great thought Mark. Ummmm.........
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Richi, they probably got bored having to log in and order and input a new 15 digit password on a regular basis and then having to wait 15 minutes because the one you had just written down does not work !!!!!!!!!!!
I dont know whether this is because the forum has changed and I log in from several different computers but it is becoming more than a little tedious having to keep inputting passwords. May have to have several different handles at this rate.
Moonyaker (1)
Shy Tangler is still about...............his daughter watches Eastenders
Moonyaker (2)
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Have only caught Bass on the Saltwater Chug Bug (but then that is the only popper I have apart from a couple of giants). When I caught the Bass were driving eels to the surface; I saw the baitfish break the surface, popped on the popper and cast over the point where the bait fish were jumping and drew the Chug Bug back making it make a splash like breaking bait fish and WHAM! BANG! ETC. I called my fishing mate over and he did the same and we had caught two good sized Bass within a couple of minutes. Because the fish take the lure when it is stationary the line just goes completely solid - great fun! Strange thing is that I think that these were freshwater eels migrating rather than Sandeels but I cannot see that the Bass would be concerned either way. I guess that they could have been large Launce but the Eel I saw breaking the surface was very dark in colour and we had seen a migrating eel the night before.
My advice is just keep at it and that when you catch it really rewarding.
Moonyaker
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You are right about the bigger fluctuations in the past. The difference this time is the speed of the change. Nature will and has re addressed the balance in a measured way given a chance. Unfortunately this time nature may have to re address in a more agressive way ..................like an ice age. Thats the traditional way round these parts that nature corrects the more severe fluctuations. Should get most of the traffic off the roads.
I thought the same until this morning whilst listening to the radio when there was some professor on, who seemed to know about such things, who confirmed that the last Ice Age ended 10,000 years ago......over the course of a 7 year period! That would be your biblical flood accounted for.......
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I hear where you are coming from Martin but I do not think that the electric fields surrounding the inlet and outlet cables will be sufficiently strong overall to outweigh the attraction of the structures. This is uncharted territory of course but it is my firm belief that the base of the turbine structures will attract sea-life rather than dispell it. These pylons will (in my opinion) become great places to fly fish from from a kayak and I am absolutely amazed that you have not realised this yet
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After they have settled in it seems to me that windfarms will offer huge kayakfishing potential. Structures are great fish attractors but present dangers for larger craft but mooring opportunities for us. These new super windfarms that have been confirmed over the last couple of days are just over an hours paddle offshore and once the development area has settled it seems to me that they could become Kayak fishing Mecca's (so to speak).
I think that windfarms generally fit well with the jade coloured ethos that seems to run through this forum but perhaps there is an alternative perspective that I have overlooked.
Moonyaker
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In years gone by the cover of Sea Angler has as I recall most frequently been adorned by photos of either Cod or Bass. Newer rival magazines seem to follow this formula too.
Stocks and catches of both have of course diminished massively over the last 20 years and yet they still still appear as ‘cover girls’ so to speak. I am convinced that the picture of a Bass or a Cod on the front cover of a fishing magazine increases sales and that is why they are used so frequently.
The underlying sales message of the covers I guess must be….’ If you are not catching fish like this, you need us to tell you how to’…and with diminishing stocks perhaps they actually increased sales.
Now, if kayak fishing is an alternative response to poor shore fishing this is at odds with an ethos which appears to me to be ‘ if you aint catching it is because you are not casting far enough’.
Those at Sea Angler have however entertained us well over the years and it is not their fault that the quality of shore fishing has diminished.
To acknowledge that kayak fishing was more fun than being able to cast 200 metres or more would not I think really do Sea Angler a lot of good in the short term.
But, not to acknowledge that Kayak fishing was perhaps a better approach to getting some fishing entertainment than casting to the horizon…..well, that is perhaps their dilemma!……………….
Moonyaker
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Looks like a job for Sikkaflex to me.................
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Now here's gratitude..........
Rustle... Rustle... Rustle..........''Huminbird'.........very nice Dear................what do I want with a 'Fish Finder'?
I know where the all the fish went.........they're in the Blxxdy Heron!''.....
''well if you dont want it ..................I dont think I can take it back.............I'm sure I have lost the receipt''....
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If we had to pick a country to emigrate to 'from a travel brochure' so to speak, for me and my tribe Canada would get the vote. Good fishing, not overpopulated, skiing, mountains, lakes, countryside, wildernesses, language (probably) not a big issue, and popping down to Florida for a bit of sun, and back to the UK not too difficult at all.
[sorry S2VTO, did not see your post before I had finished the above].
Moonyaker
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I don't watch that b****cks but my daughter called me through and asked - is that Kimmeridge daddy?
Spot on girl!
Thought you'd have recognised it Moonyaker!
I did.....
I heard on the radio that they are in the process of taking down Clavells tower and re-building it back from the cliff and turning it into a holiday home; can you report on where they are with this project at the moment ST ? I recall that it is costing £800,000 to do this.
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Forgive me my sunday afternoon snooze in a chair after lunch whilst others are getting their catch-up fix of altered reality and indoctrination.
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Anyone recognise the venue for this weeks Eastenders ?
Now look, I lost control of the remote years ago but I know a good fishing venue when I see one
Moonyaker
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Ah well, hair today.............
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Well. I always thought that getting 'caught by the short and curlies' was a painful experience but now I find that it is a tried and tested fishing method.
Next thing you know 'Fanny Haddock' will be a 'record fish'.
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'Pheromone flavoured flies'......I think we'll get Moderated or X-Rated if this continues...............
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A helium filled kayak..........you would have to define that as 'a laugh' or would it be 'a gas' ?
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I remember being sat upon Chesil Beach one winters evening about 15 years ago. There was a light breeze blowing onto the shore from the south west. The sea was relatively calm, waves just breaking with a slap and crash and retreating with a hissing scour as they went with the shingle in their grasp. The sky was black, starless, moonless and overcast.
As usual, we had set up towards the rear of the second shelf of shingle, a prudent distance from the sea which we could only hear. The parafin pressure lamps gave a comforting roar and a bright curtain of light spread around our brollies within which we felt warm and secure. Pout tugged away at our ragworm baits nudging the starlights at the tips of the rods and all seemed well with the world.
All we heard was a change of tone as suddenly the first of three waves flooded into our camp. Fortunately, I had enough presence of mind to pick up the pressure lamp, as did my mate and we stood there almost knee deep in surf as our tackle boxes floated around us and the noise of retreating shingle deafened. We were able to grab the floating boxes and little was actually lost bar our shattered nerves. We even managed to save some ragworm as they floated away on a raft of newspaper and vermiculite. It is amazing how clearly you can think in a crisis.
After these three freak waves, the sea settled back into its comforting rhythm a good distance away, but I have never trusted it again..........
We do not know where these waves came from; some have suggested that an earth tremor or an oil tanker could have been the cause.......but we will never know.
However, as that great prophet Gump did say..........'**** happens'........and you had better be prepared for it...if you can.
Moonyaker
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Catfish? Ling? Wels?
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Hi Andy (Mad Yakker),
I thought that the 'P15' had been superseded by the 'Prowler Elite 4.5' which seemed to be the same vessel but with some moulding modifications; (15ft = 4.57M).
Are you saying that the P15 was 'scrapped' because it was substantially flawed?
Moonyaker
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Hi Simon
I think that the intention was to put Kayaks in ranking order of 'those you have paddled'.......there are no Pelicans of Dorados on my list is because I have not paddled them yet! (the list of yaks that I have paddled is obviously very short).
(At least I think that that is what Volusian intended).
Moonyaker
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Here you go SDD
'Beauty and the Beast'.... (Me and my first salmon)
http://www.thatchcottageireland.co.uk/inde...mp;op=galleries
Moonyaker