Hi Folks
Sorry I haven’t spoken to you for a while, it has been very busy in the shop.
Here is an amusing tale about how not to Kayak fish from the Solent sent to us by Paul. Enjoy.
Fellow fishermen,
Just thought I’d get the real story in before Bradders twists the truth.
Went out yesterday afternoon kayak fishing with Damon and Bradders, we were looking very slick, all kayaked up, rods out the back, choppy but nice.
Bradders had a 3 foot rod and the biggest beach casting reel imaginable, consequently he was ready before Damon and myself, Bradders therefore headed off into the big blue returning 5 minutes later with a birds nest attached to the reel, typically he blamed me and said it was because I was taking too long to get ready.
Anyway after fifteen minutes of unravelling and swearing from Bradders we headed down the Southampton waterway, an hour later I heard an excited high pitched scream from Bradders, my first thought was he’s game on as I could see him peering into the depths, my second thought was where is his fishing rod, yes it was over side and gone deep, this again appeared to have been my fault as I hadn’t given him a rod leash.
He then floated around for about half an hour sulking so I gave him my spare rod.
Whilst I was catching my two school bass, I ignored Bradders as he was very excited at catching a very small bass and persistently denying I had caught anything despite photographic evidence.
I then heard another very high pitched squeal from Bradders, praying he hadn't dropped my rod too, I looked over to his kayak and noticed Bradders wasn’t on it, he had Clouseau-esque fallen overboard, I paddled over and secured his kayak whilst he swam off to recover his paddle.
Unable to climb back on board his kayak because of all the kit, he passed me the contents of his kayak which included a large truncheon (bigger than his rod) which he said was was for stunning the big fish he caught. After nearly capsizing me he managed to get back on his kayak.
We fished for another half hour before he complained of hypothermia and we paddled back up to the hard.
If you ever want to go kayaking, go with Bradders it was the funniest afternoon in years.
Honest Paul (catcher of two bass)
