Giles' Kayak…...

[Giles]

Good, because I am flying by the seat of my pants  ;). Plus, as much Googling as humanly possible 

[goosehd]

@Giles

I don’t know what your experience is with kayaking, but you may want to take a few trips out and get use to it before you load it up.

When I first started sea kayaking, I practiced a lot of exits and getting back in my boat in fairly shallow water.  It helped me learn tipping points and counter balancing techniques.  I also found getting back into the boat more challenging than I assumed it would be.  My first accidental flip over went reasonably well, because I had practiced beforehand.

I know your boat is a sit on which is different, but stability exercises could be helpful (especially when fishing).

[Paul9221]

^ this guy Kayaks!

I only kayaked once and absolutely tipped when getting out.

[Giles]

Thank you, Dennis.  I will be staying within the confines of Portsmouth Harbour for the first few trips, so no open water stuff.

I kayaked a bit in a past life and leaned to roll and re-enter, so it's not entirely alien to me.  But we do have a maxim in our house, if Giles could possibly fall over, he will  - I blame it on only having 8 toes…..

Having said all that, the Hobie Outback is amazingly stable....

[Alex]

@Giles:

Thank you, Dennis.  I will be staying within the confines of Portsmouth Harbour

North PH i hope, in a battle of Wightlink Car Ferry with wind over tide vs Giles' Kayak, there is a clear winner

[Giles]

Unless I am inadvertently sucked out, I have zero intention of ever going through the mouth of the harbour…...

[goosehd]

That video is impressive, but if I tried that with my kayak and I would go arse over tit in milliseconds…

I can’t wait to see your future exploits G.  That kayak looks like a great platform for fishing!

[Giles]

I just popped down to one of the local public slipways…...Benign as anything.....

[goosehd]

Was this picture taken in the same area that you took?

[Alex]

Yep

[goosehd]

It took me a minute to figure out the exact location.  That's only a ~10 minute walk from the shop and looks like a great fishing spot.  Lots of structure to work and a very protected area.

This should be lots of fun!

[Giles]

My largest bass last year came from where Johnny was photographed.  That is a 5-minute walk from our house.  The slipway that I took the photo of above, is a few minutes drive away, and I'm thinking the two places are 15 or so minutes by Kayak.

[goosehd]

I love google satellite pictures.  You can see the channel that runs down the middle of the area, decent weed cover, and all of the wrecks in varying states of decay.  Looks like a fishing paradise!

G, Are you going to use top water baits for the shallows or going to stick to the channel?

[Seul]

"I just caught a bass this big…"

[goosehd]

[Giles]

The houses behind Johnny are these:

https://www.johnpardeyarchitects.com/modern-architecture/residential-architecture/priddys-hard-housing/

Built between the old blast walls of the munitions factory.  Originally there was a wooden shed between each blast wall and in the sheds, shells were filled with explosives.  If one went off, person filling shell plus shed were vapourised, but the walls protected the other sheds/shell-fillers

[Giles]

@goosehd:

G, Are you going to use topwater baits for the shallows or going to stick to the channel?

At high water, the fish work the margins, at low water they will be in the channel.  I will do the same 

[Filthy2123ozjunkie]

@Seul:

"I just caught a bass this big…"

I loled 

[Giles]

@goosehd Here's some aerial footage of the old munitions depot, the blast walls are at 2:28

[goosehd]

That is a really beautiful area.  Close to urban areas, but still far enough removed that you feel that you’re living in the countryside.

How are the bugs though?  Around here, the mosquitoes at dusk would carry you away in an area like that.