KAYAK FISHING HASTINGS 3 DAY FESTIVAL

Member Joined: Feb 10, 2010 Posts: 5

Here are the details of the 3 day festival

18th,19th and 20th June 2010

Two major first prizes each of £500
14 day prizes to be won daily
31 trophies to be won

There is a trophy for the best specimen caught on a Kayak but all other trophies are up for grabs too!!!

Entry fee is £12 per day or £30 for all three, under 16s £3 per day
Please note that entry after the 11th June is £17 per day

If anyone is interested I can send you the entry form.

Cheers Les

Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 7:48 pm

There a website / facebook group or similar for this please?

Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 3:31 pm

is it just me or does there seem to be more and more new members signing up and just posting 1 topic which is advertising some kind of event/ shop? angry

btw Jim did you know theres an event @ stackpole the end of May organised by the national trust. no fishing just guided scenic trips to Caldey and Skomer and a BBQ /Camping back at Stackpole Home Farm. not sure if u can bring your own yak or if you have to use theirs. might look into it a bit more and maybe take the little 1 out for the day. she'd love that.

Phill

Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 2:05 pm

Hi, no i didnt know, but I suspect that more for the full touring yakkers around here. Having said that, Id find it very hard not to take a rod with me given that coast line, and the whole trek sounds like a bit of a mission!

Keep me up to date though, never know!

Yes, 1 person posting / spamming something on all the forums is aqnnoying but predictable. Not bothered if they do, when they dont answer your questions relating to it thats just rude.

There was a Kayak fishing competeition in South Pembs a few years ago, i missed it as i didnt have a yak at the time. Be good to have another one tbh. May have a chat to a few people on that subject.

Member Joined: Feb 10, 2010 Posts: 5

JimKayak,

There isnt a facebook group, yet,but im looking into it for the Hastings Festival, but ive posted lots of information on whitby sea anglers website, with the help of their admin, unlike Phatboy, he is quite happy to let other kayakers in different areas, know whats going on and be given the chance to get away for the weekend, meet new people and have a good time.

Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 1:54 pm

I dont think Phatboy minds the info being posted, its the frequent thing that people post once and thats that! So, a reply from you is a great leap forward.

With all due respect, Im unlikely to be looking at a page for Whitby anything, bearing in mind we are 400 miles away, and I wont spend 7 hours in a car to go anywhere, thats just wasted fishing time!

Post some links for more3 info, i'll take a look, maybe even bring Phatboy along aswell, if i can drag him away from his computer!

Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 3:02 am

Hi Bigles i didnt mean to offend you its just that recently a lot of people have been signing up to various forums just to advertise their events/ shops and as it seemed that you had not answered Jim's question it appeared that your post was just another 1 of these.

i didnt mean to offend and im sorry if i came across that way.

allthough i wont be able to make it to the festival i would like to wish you the best of luck with it and i hope it all goes well.

all the best Phill

ps: Jim let me know if you fancy meeting up when the weather gets a bit better.

Member Joined: Feb 10, 2010 Posts: 5

Hi Phil,
No worries happy

My replies are sometimes delayed as I dont get a lot of time to spend on forums. I`m a boatman and I`ve just had 3 very long days on the trot of making sure others can get out on their boats and go fishing. It`s not just a case of everyone turning up and stepping into their boat here and away they go, we have to hand ball the boat off the berth then down the beach and push it into the water, no trailers involved at all, and obviously they all have to get back on the beach too... when im not doing that im fixing their poxy engines....or indeed smoking their fish for them. happy

Oh the joys of being a boatman at a beach launched angling club. When im not doing any of that, which takes up a lot of my time , I do like to try to get out fishing myself as much as possible either on my boat or in the kayak.

I`ll try to update you as much as possible with whats hapening here with Kayak fishing etc, but again apologies if i dont get back very quickly, but will endevour to do so within a few days.

If you do ever make it down to Hastings Phil, come and find me in the boatyard, we can talk fishing and i`ll even show you how to fish for bass
lol.
Cheers
Happy fishing
Les

Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 4:38 pm

Phatboy knows how to fish for Bass, however he often catches deformed fish with their tails growing too close to their heads happy

Member Joined: Feb 10, 2010 Posts: 5

Yes at the moment all we have down here is schoolies. there was only one bass caught this weekend, which was out deep on a wreck, plenty of plaice about at the weekend, just a bit skinny yet, the biggest being just over 3lb

Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:34 pm

Ah well, we have 4lbers being caught here. I returned my first bass of the year today, around 3lb, caught on a trolled fly in 10 inches of water!

Took off like a train

Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 1:46 pm

where was that then jim?
i havent heard of any on this side of the water yet. lots of flatties coming in down fort Road though.

as for those deformed bass i blame the refineries, must have mutated them lol big grin

i did have a deformed macky last year. it looked like a 1 1/2lb fish until you touched it and realised it was a tiddler with loads of loose skin. looked like it had been on a crash diet and still had some bingo wings lol

Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 9:31 pm

Sadly i cannot reveal where there are Bass being caught in pembrokeshire, apart from there are Bass being caught in Pembrokeshire.

Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 10:00 am

spoilsport sad

Member Joined: Feb 10, 2010 Posts: 5

We had 19 boats off on Sunday, in the first comp of the year, they were all plagued with pin whiting, a few nice plaice caught, with the biggest being 3lb 10 oz, but more interesting, one of our kayak lads was off and he had a couple of bass, the first inshore bass this year, but unfortunately i expect when we lose the easterlies and goes south westerly we will get the dreaded snotty gully water, which kills the fishing for a couple of weeks as it goes up the channel, but after that mackeral should appear and the bigger bass.