First one

Well I managed to finish painting my house on the weekend, with a few hours spare on Sunday afternoon. So I went for a yak down in the Derwent. The weather was good and the bay was full of stink boats and shore bashers. I spoke to a few boaters. Only one out of three had any luck (2 bream).

But I managed to get my first fish from the yak - a decent sized flatty. :roll: Then after a quite patch exploring bream hidey holes I managed to spot a salmon jumping. Paddled over and cast out a power minnow SP. Got a tap, then let it sit for a while and bang a salmon hit the lure. About 1lb size.

Then I nearly discovered the hard way why I should always strap the rods onto the yak. I forgot to put the straps in this trip. I was untangling the second rod, while I had the rod I'd just caught the salmon on sitting accross my lap. Alld of a sudden it started flying off my lap into the water. :shock: I caught it in time and found another 1 pounder salmon on the end. It must have come right up to the kayak and got the soft plastic which would have been dangling only a metre in the water.

Then after a few more casts in the general area I then had that tell tale tug of a good sized bream. It did some decent runs in all directions. I had to stick the rod right into the water and under the yak to pull him out. 8) It ended up being about 38/39 cm. I paddled to shore for a couple of pics and released him back into the murky Derwent.

Cheers
Vert