Gary Robinson is an angler who puts a lot of time, thought, and effort into his fishing. Set up now with a state of the art kayak rig Gary has spent the early summer putting her through its paces. The weather recently has been kind with light winds, calm seas, and blue skies, enabling a trip out off Dunlaoghaire which resulted in a nice codling.
Taking advantage of the settled conditions Gary paddled out a few days later after the big stuff off the north Wicklow coastline. His efforts produced a superb tope, which judging from the images Gary sent me is well over the specimen forty pound mark and could easily top fifty. Handling a fish like that in a boat is difficult enough, but from a kayak takes some skill. Well done Gary on a cracking fish caught and released.
For the record Gary’s tope was tempted by ledgered whole mackerel and played on an old faithful ABU 7000 reel.
See also: Kayak Fishing for Tope.
See also: Screaming Reels.
Tags: Angling, codling, Fishing, Ireland, Kayak fishing, Mackerel, Sea Angling, Sea Fishing, tope, Wicklow
