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crooked lines june 2016 skip to main skip to sidebar wednesday 15 june 2016 marriage wrasse and wreckage regular readers of this blog will have heard or been warned about norbert darby he is as wayward as they come and so i wasn t surprised when he turned up two hours late to my wedding by the double locks the other night it s a pub i ve had previous with and a great place to have a wedding bash on so many levels so in his customary fashion norbert arrived rather late half cut on a bmx and not especially smartly dressed i was even more shocked to learn he hadn t been fishing in two years seemed odd because we were once both glued to the banks of the exeter canal fishing for carp as recalled in crooked lines and so in that drunken way that you do we hatched a plan to go kayaking fishing on the south hams from the off you could probably file it under seemed a good idea at the time lashing waves a small boat norbert s love of adventure and warped sense of humour i didn t sleep that well the night before when you ve just got married it s not a great time to go missing or die but norbert was insistent after another tin of cider that he had done loads of kayaking in his younger days when not driving uninsured cars and chasing barmaids so anyway we faced a foggy start to the next day weaving through backroads and laughing at the lack of civilisation and directions low tide was mid afternoon which didn t seem so ideal but left us with some time or enough to fritter away in what looked like a garage come shop but turned out to sell a whole heap of fishing tackle local tat and all the rest norbert left with a four pack of strongbow some crisps weedless bass lures and a 3d postcard with pigs on it which he thought was the best 99p he d spent in his life but this is norbert he is permanently acquiring things only to lose them we reached our sheltered mark around midday and got sorted with kit this takes some discipline with kayak fishing because when you re out there everything can get wet or misplaced so you have to be organised i put my lure boxes in a fly vest for security we also wore buoyancy aids for safety really bad early 1990 s buoyancy aids to be specific we took the plunge right from the beach getting well out into the little bay quickly the tide seemed quite reasonable although the spot we were heading for seemed to channel the currents it is an eerie exciting feeling travelling over rocky kelpy ground in a kayak it was great to see a mark i ve fished since childhood from a totally different angle too the odd larger wave would sometimes creep up and give you butterflies but norbert was a dab hand at steering the boat we headed for a large rock that i must have looked and wondered at from the shore for the last twenty years now we could get to it we d packed three rods between us two lighter lure fishing outfits along with a more no nonsense set up i tried the heavier set up first with a texas rigged worm i fished it tight to the bottom jigging quite patiently and feeling for the bites i got two early plucks then nothing but as we reached a really deep fishy looking spot i switched to weedless black minnow i d just cast some fifteen yards from the kayak and given a couple of pulls when the rod absolutely thumped over a pollack a decent wrasse it turned out to be a lovely ballan not far off three pounds i would guess norbert s pictures were pretty shaky but at least he kept us both alive and i m hardly joking because after a break and a bite to eat it was a very different sea we found the incoming tide and an onshore breeze had kicked up quite a swell it was tricky just to get into the sea without shipping lots of water not a huge issue because modern sit on kayaks for fishing are very stable and act like a giant air chamber but it s a pain when you have things like lure boxes and a camera on you regardless of whether you have a dry bag some of the waves on the return journey were large to say the least the big ones would just pick you up like a toy it was good practise although fishing was often out of the question you have to constantly anticipate and watch for currents and bigger waves if you head directly into the waves you get shoved up and down but in safety whereas if you catch a big wave side on this is the biggest risk of the kayak rolling and getting pitched into the sea eventually we had to admit defeat and fish from the shore since it had seemed way too risky to get into the rocky parts we really wanted to fish it got pretty rough though we started to get a battering and the general nearly got washed into the sea a little disappointing but there were still fish to be found from the shore doing a spot of rock hopping and casting lures into the gullies i must say the wrasse have been excellent fun this year but also quite a sharp learning curve having a session or two with andy mytton has really opened my eyes to the detail here it is such brilliant and surprising fishing too the trick is to fish lures right amongst it in the rocks and kelp hopping across the bottom foot or to with a degree of patience the challenge for someone more used to freshwater fish is the patience required with the smaller fish you have to let bites develop but when a better wrasse arrives the decisiveness of the take can be formidable a wrasse of two or three pounds can be too much for the lightest tackle which explains why i was relieved to land another recent fish of that stamp from a different rock mark curiously this was on another more testing session where the larger lures didn t score and the best of the day took a small 3 section of worm rigged weedless luck had it that the shelf below was quite open and i was able to keep the fish from burying itself even so the battle on an ultralight rod and 5lb hook link was hair raising thrilling stuff a long handled net came in handy once again too which is enough excitement for a bit because it might be june 16th tomorrow but it s absolutely 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