Adapting to the season
With the return of summer, the seaside is often very busy. And busy means busy and noisy. Fish don't like noise, so it's a good idea to get up with the sun. The last two outings I made last week, before the arrival of bad weather at the tip of Brittany, confirmed this observation. The two outings were virtually identical.
Arriving as I usually do a little before sunrise, just long enough to rig the kayak (which takes me ten minutes or so), I set off from my usual slipway. As these are short outings, less than 4 hours, I took my kayak steppe. I rigged two rods, one with a swimmer fish for the 0-2-meter zone and one with a big bib lure for the 5/6-meter zone. The area is calm, no wind, it's a calm sea. There's not a sound on the water, as motorized boats aren't on the water yet, let alone tourists.
The right time
It's my favorite moment of the day, as there's still ten minutes or so to go before the sun passes over the trees on the other side of the harbor. I have time to walk a few meters to the start of the slipway, launch my 3DB, lower the pick-up, 2 turns of the crank and bim, it's hanging and not nasty. It's the best way to start the day. The fish gives me a good fight before ending up in the landing net and taking a break for posterity, before hurrying off again after the photo.
The mackerel are also well represented and join in the general jubilation. Two days in a row, 3 or 4 fish will be caught before the sun rises, and then the hunt begins. Unlike at the beginning of the month, when there were big hunts, this time it's small-scale activity lasting just a few minutes, but very intense. The fishing goes on like this until around 09:00, when the water starts to get crowded and noisy.
Parks, a sure bet
I'll take the opportunity to walk a few kilometers on the steppe, as if I were jogging at the same time. From time to time, a fish here, a fish there, but the hunting activity is over. As I make my way to the parks, I come across a decent fish just under the bridge over the Elorn. The parks in the harbor, as everywhere else, are a safe bet, and it's a good idea to devote some of the day's session to them. On the way back, I see a few eddies on the edge of the swimming area, I cast my 3DB again into the coveted zone, and I don't even have time to cast before a nice sea bass grabs the lure. To the dismay of a motorized angler who must have been fishing with a 150 gram lead because it made such a noise on contact with the water. I think he had to knock them out rather than fish for them.
This is another key to success in summer fishing when the water is clearer, so don't hesitate to reduce the diameter of the fluorocarbon and use a high-quality fluorocarbon.
