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An Offshore start to 2012
« Thread Started on Jan 7, 2012, 12:36pm »

I had been watching the weather and it seemed last night that the most practical launch site would have been the Bristol Channel today.
When I got up this morning everything had changed and xc weather was showing a light NW4 swinging round to a SW5 in my area.

I was faced with a choice do I drive for 2 1/2 hours to the BC or half an hour to Tanners Lane

Needles it was then

Got down to Tanners and on the water for 11am,flipped up the sail and used the NW wind and the ebbing tide to take me past Yarmouth then I stowed the sail because it was taking me too far East and paddled out through Hurst narrows skirting the shingles

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Surf kicking up over The Shingles,I'm going to drift live sandeel here in the Summer

to a mark 11 miles from launch between the Spoil grounds and the Fairway Bouy.Not here,further :-[

I was using an 8/0 Pennel on one rod and two 3/0s on booms on the other.

First species of 2012

I had a double shot of Whiting mid way through the session

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One a keeper

And I got one of these of course ::)

No Cod today,but they are thin on the ground round here now.Unlike the seagulls

The wind picked up and swung round as predicted and I decided to head back so I had a little light for negotiating the Hurst Trap.

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I managed to sail all the way to Lymington on the way back leaving a liesurely bimble along the shoreline to Tanners,it was hardly a liesurely bimble returning past the Needles and through Hurst.

It was great fun though! 8-)

Sorry no pics of Hurst Trap,it was a bit wild there and getting a bit dark for pics anyway

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Re: An Offshore start to 2012
« Reply #1 on Jan 7, 2012, 2:24pm »

Blimey Richi

That looked pretty "lumpy"mate - was it worth it for a Whiting

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Re: An Offshore start to 2012
« Reply #2 on Jan 7, 2012, 4:08pm »

Jan 7, 2012, 2:24pm, snoopy54 wrote:

Blimey Richi

That looked pretty "lumpy"mate - was it worth it for a Whiting

No but it was worth it to get the kayak up to hull speed with a following sea

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Re: An Offshore start to 2012
« Reply #3 on Jan 7, 2012, 4:21pm »

Great report as always

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Re: An Offshore start to 2012
« Reply #4 on Jan 31, 2012, 10:06pm »

Great effort mate!

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Re: An Offshore start to 2012
« Reply #5 on Feb 5, 2012, 12:35pm »

A really good report, superb pictures, very well done....i take my hat off to you going that far out in a kayak, must have been a bit hairy getting back round though!!!

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Re: An Offshore start to 2012
« Reply #6 on Feb 5, 2012, 6:42pm »

Ur an absolute nutter! [image]

well done on getting out tho!

Mark

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