After a good kayak fishing session there earlier in the year it was time for another visit to St Abbs. It was a last-minute decision and too late to invite anyone else so I was here on my own. I set off from Teesside at about 5 am and arrived at St Abbs around 7 am. It wasn’t the warmest of mornings due to it being mid-October but the conditions seemed right for a venture out, besides, I’d checked to weather and wave height forecast before travelling up to ensure it would not be a wasted journey. As I arrived the sun was just rising so I took a few pics before getting kitted up.
I headed straight to the cliff face a few hundred metres north of the harbour. This was our usual area for picking up plenty of Coalfish and Pollack.
There was not much around today though, as I was discovering. Not a single fish so far. This was going to be a hard days fishing. After an hour or so I continued north and ended up beneath the lighthouse. That’s where I caught my first fish of the day. I was trolling a SavageGear deep-diving plug when I was hit by a Pollock of around 3lbs.
Then 5 minutes later another one of similar size.
I managed to capture these on the video below.
After a few more trolling runs back and forth around the same area with no takes it was time to start heading back to shore. I had another quick drop in the area I call kelp corner. It’s a kelp bed close into the cliff which always seems to produce Codling. It didn’t let me down and I was soon into a Codling a couple of pounds in weight. That’s one of the benefits of kayak fishing, you can get right close into the cliffs, closer than a regular boat can.
Not the greatest days kayak fishing but at least I didn’t blank and I got some good exercise in which is always a bonus.
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