Needles area trip report 11 oct

[richi]

Woke up to fog so took my time getting ready,none too hopeful of the glorious weather that everybody had predicted.

 

Left home and drove to keyhaven and within a few miles of the launch point and the fog had lifted.

 

Readied myself and was on the slipway ready for launch shortly after 1030am

 

Lovely calm day,even the usual turbulent parts of the trip were subdued.I was soon out through Hurst narrows and on my way

 

 

approaching the Needles I saw a group of kayakers,I took their photo

 

 

and carried on paddling through to my planned mark about 2 miles south.

 

Once through the Needles many fishing boats were in sight

I paddled just offshore of them and anchored up in 87 ft.

 

First fish to the yak was bloody pout

 

the second fish that was on was definately fighting better than the pout,soon realised why

 

 

then I had a bigger fish on,what was it,could it be ,YES!!!!!!!!!!

 

shouted over to the other boats "Cod are in" as I held it high so they could see

 

 

I wasn't the only one having a nice day

 

others had caught cod too and a conger was caught by one of the boats

 

 

just after 4pm decided to head for home,took some pics along the way

 

Alum bay

 

 

 

 

 

The Cod is in the freezer