Two days fishing in Donegal.

Hi all,
Where to start,  mad weather, tuna jumping all over the place and hard fighting skate.
All in 2 days fishing.
If you have never been afloat around the Donegal coast line now has never been a better time.
If there isn't dolphins and porpoises about there's monster blue fin tuna leaping all over the place at the wright time of the day.

The fishing,
Mike Sherwood and myself had planned to hunting shark at a deep mark off killybegs.
The weather was not the best but it was good enough to give it a try.
So we headed out off st.johns point and paddled to 209ft of water, ye its deep off there.

Anchoring.
Anchoring in 200+ft of water is never fills me with excitement, the thoughts of hauling the anchor all the way back up is a torture.

But lucky for us we saw a crab boat shooting his pots out deep so away we went and he was shooting his pot ends as we got there.
He did looked surprised to see us lol, he even got the camera out for a pic lol.

Yes, that's st.john point light in the distance. Don't think to many kayak anglers get to see it from out here.

We tried the sharks for about 2 or 3 hrs but the weather was brutal and I keeping full lumps of water over the side of my kayak every few swells. So with that we headed back for the shore. While we where out there we did give the bottom a try. Mike had a cracking whiting the first drop and the rest of  the time it was doggie, doggie, doggie.

A run for shelter.
So we paddled for shelter to try along the point and in no time Mike was into all sorts of small stuff and some good ones while after wrasse.
 I was still being plagued with doggies while looking for ling etc.
While we fished cracker of a tuna jumped about 200 yards off the shore, so with no time to waste I was away for a paddle with them.
But he was the only one at that time.

Poor enough fishing.
The fishing was quiet poor for the point, the mackerel where not a patch on what they are normally like for this time of year.
But we where doing not to bad compared to the shore anglers.

Mike had 2 good codling and I was getting a few squid.
We had a good days craic and about 11 species between us and it was great to be out. I was heading for Malinhead in the morning and Mike was in work so it was we headed for home about 3.40pm.

TUNA TUNA TUNA, foooooooooook.
That was the call from Mike as several large tuna came hurtling out of the water.
If you never seen it your going to have to try. It is unbelievable to see it.
So away we went paddling like mental trying to get near them as they came up every where.
There where busts all over the place.
It started with 1 bust then 2 and in the end up there where 5 separate busts happening at once.
As we paddled between the busts 3 tuna came up beside Mike no more than 20yards away.
Epic stuff.
So that was that, after 2hrs chasing tuna get a good look at them it was time for home. Heres a pic of Mikes fine codling.

Here is a video of the squid action below. The tuna busts where close to us but no close enough for the gopro.

Day 2 is coming soon.
Good luck and tight lines and beware of flying tuna while paddling out there lol.