Kayak Season is of to a flyer!

Its been abit of a marathon first week of kayaking this year. I was watching the forcast all week and was chomping at the bit to get afloat after the dismal winter we've had.
The first session was at on of our favorite early season cod marks, 'Skinningrove'. Fishing was fairly slow but Damo and Tony managed a few codlings up to 3lb between then but all I could manage was two pesky billet. The wind picked up in the afternoon so we headed in. The GPS indicated a total distance travelled of 11 miles.

We had the idea to go out the following evening after work but that first session killed us so we decided to give it a miss.

Monday was the next outing and Sandsend was our mark. We paddled around 1.5 miles off shore and was traight into fish me with a pollock of 1lb and a nice codling of 4.5lbs. I was thinking to myself that this was going to be a bumper session. As the tide slackened off the drift sped was perfect and i managed to pick up 8 pollock in one drift but they were all around the 1lb mark. just a tad too small for the table.
Damo was straight in to the cod and quickly boating 9 in succession. Unfortunatly only 1 was of legal size weighing 2lbs.

As the sun was setting the tide slackened right off and the bites dried up but we were accompanied by 4 dolphins which were feeding about 200yds off our yaks.
We headed in in a glorious sunset contemplating our next venue.

The next day we headed to Runswick bay to meet up with Glenn and Mike. There was a strong south easterly breeze blowing but with the drogues deployed we were soon on our first drift. I was first into fish with a pollock for the table and a nice codling weighing 2.5lbs. Next drift I hooked into a belter of a fish only to loose it half way up. That was all for me but everyone else managed a few fish each up to 3.5lbs.
All in all a good start to the season and with the water clearing nicely it can only get better.