Inish Adventures Sea symposium, kayak angling side of things.

Hi everyone,
You are very welcome, Please have a read and I hope this helps you.
My name is Graham Smith and I will be guiding the up coming event in regards to kayak angling.
As its early in the year we will weather permitting heading to a very scenic venue on our fantastic Donegal coast.
The main species of fish we will be targeting will be Coalie and Pollack.  Neither are very hard to catch but to get the best from them specific tackle to target the better fish is best.

Coalies; are a prolific fish in some areas and are a very hard fighting fish and they are immense sport.
You can catch them on feathers such as the shamrock tackle bullseye rig and munster maulers using a boat rod. But jelly worms such as shamrock tackles orange match worm or the storm worms on a lead head are fantastic sport on a spinning rod but these need to fished fairly fast to get there interest and to hook them. Try not to use than 20lb line as they are real scrappers. Heres a pic of the rigs I would recommend, If you can't get them try get something similar.

 

The rigs and tackle needed for the week end can be bought locally from Farrens filling station. If you prepay they can be brought to Moville for you on Saturday morning. Heres there phone number for purchases and enquiries 074 9379775.

 

 

Pollack;
It will be a tad early for Pollack at this time of year but they are there but a bit more skill and patients are required. Jelly worms fish slow on booms are best but frozen sandeel fished very slow will catch them also. I like to fish them with a light boat rod 12lb class, with a boom and around 8ft of line from the boom to the jelly worm Its the same rig for the sandeel. I use a 3/0 hook. I prefer a strong heavy hook as they can dive very strongly . These are very good for Pollack.

Heres a video I got last year at this time of year of Pollack and coalies hitting my lure, all this happened under my kayakand it was captured on my gopro camera.
Enjoy and I hope to see you all there.

Should the weather be not as we hope for we may end up fishing for flatfish and rays, A general boom with a 3 hook down rig will catch both ray and flats. A hook size change may be all that is needed to swap between the species.

 

This is what is available over the Inish Adventures sea symposium. Here is a link for the bookings
http://justkayak.ie/index.php/sea-symposium-2014/bookings