Sparid fishing with tenyas
As Monday was more or less a bank holiday, my colleague Antho was available for a session. With the tidal coefficients and weather on our side, we decided on a sparid outing, looking for them on tenyas. It's easy fishing from our kayaks. The aim is to find the right weight to fish as light as possible, while feeling the bottom and avoiding too much belly in the line body. The depths we fish range from 20 to 35 meters.
For this session with a coefficient of 60, a 30-gram tenya was the right compromise. We did several of our spots this way. Letting ourselves be carried along by the tidal current. Without forcing ourselves, we made it as far as the entrance to Camaret Bay and returned with the tide.
We fished with a variety of baits, including scallop burrs, gambas, clams soaked in sardine oil, razor clam feet and squid tentacles. The advantage goes to the gambas and the scallop bard. We'll also be doing a lot of sea bream, which has a nice bluish sheen. This indicates that they haven't finished spawning. They're at least a month behind their normal time in the harbor. Many will return to their element. We also nabbed a few old timers, pollack, pageots and Antho caught a nice octopus, which are still very present in the harbor this year.
This session will end, like all the others, with a good snack on a pebble beach.
Park-side bars
On Wednesday June 12, I'm on my own again. I wanted to go and do a session on the north coast, but at daybreak the wind and fog were still present. So I decide to stay on the other side of the harbor from Monday's first session. The plateau in front of the marina, the approaches to the bridges and parks, right up to the first meanders of the Elorn.
A nice bass took hold of my trolling lure, a 3DB Jerkbait from Yo Zuri, one of my company's references for several years. Unfortunately, it just stung by the edge of the mouth and at the sight of the kayak, it gave a good headbutt and unhooked itself, but it's encouraging for the rest of the session.
After scraping under the bridges with a soft lure, without success, I continue my stroll towards the parks, alternating the different swim heights of my lures. The water is turbid and there's a lot of algae suspended in it. Only the noisy swimming fish are successful and I hook up with a good number of bass. They're mostly on the edges of the parks, flush with the first park tables. Depending on the time of the tide, I'll use diving swimbaits between 2 and 4 meters. I'll finish with a lure that swims under the surface at 50 cm, ideal for shallow waters and therefore these park areas, a mackerel-colored mag slim in 130 from Yo Zuri as well, a fearsome 2025 novelty...
Here too, I end my session with a good snack in a new area, under a pretty little cove on the Kéraliou side, for those who know the harbor. An area of hard sand, surrounded by oyster rocks. After the tide turned, the wind died down and the heat came on suddenly. In the morning, it was 12°C when we launched, and 31°C when we left, so it's not easy to find the right clothing mix... At the moment, I'm wearing shorts and a pair of water-repellent pants for the morning, and two layers of technical clothing and a windbreaker for the top. I take a layer off as I go out and finish in shorts and a T-shirt, because it's important for the body to breathe.
After two days of bad weather, decent weather is back from this weekend and for several days, so I may finally be able to go out in the open sea...
