Summer is finally here!! by Andrew McIlhone | Jul 9, 2018 | Fishing, Internationalisation, Ireland, KrakenWell as the tital suggests it’s been a long winter here in Ireland with cold weather and storms. It’s been that bad that I hadn’t ventured out to sea in quite some time as the water temperatures have been ridiculously cold and the fish simply were not here. We had a...
Lure Fishing For Winter Pollock!!! by Andrew McIlhone | Dec 24, 2017 | Fishing, Internationalisation, IrelandDuring the winter months here in Ireland the salt water fishing generally stops, pretty much completely. Mainly due to fish moving off to warmer waters and the added factor of generally pure weather preventing kayaks and boats getting out on the salt. At this point I...
Exploring the local coastline by Andrew McIlhone | Dec 19, 2017 | Fishing, Internationalisation, Ireland, KrakenToday was a slightly different day to normal!!! A few of the guys got new kayaks so we went out for a paddle around the local coastline from them to get there new sea legs settled inn. It was a beautiful day with glassy like conditions so the fishing gear was...
Mother ship, Blue Sharks & Sea Sickness! by Andrew McIlhone | Dec 17, 2017 | Fishing, Internationalisation, IrelandA few months ago a few of us kayak anglers hired out a charter boat to take us 20 odd miles off the south cost of Ireland to target Blue sharks from our kayaks. I was looking forward to it as iv never caught a Blue shark before never mind anything as big of the kayak,...
Irish kayak Angling Monaghan Competition by Andrew McIlhone | Dec 3, 2017 | Fishing, Internationalisation, Ireland, KrakenWell as the winter approaches and the year nears to an end we had the final of 6 heats part of the all Ireland championship in Lough Mucknoo Co.Monaghan. It’s a pretty handy location for myself to reach just 1.5 hours away. I packed the van and prepared my fresh water...
Irish kayak Angling Cahore comp! by Andrew McIlhone | Nov 29, 2017 | Fishing, Internationalisation, IrelandThat time of the year again where I pack the van and head south for a couple of days to one of our clubs annual meets. I fished this venue with great success last year tho my target species at the time was to catch my first smooth hound or as some may know it as a...
Screaming Reels “Tope Bash” by Andrew McIlhone | Jul 10, 2017 | Fishing, Internationalisation, IrelandA day that surely won’t be forgotten!!!!! 7 kayaks on the water for less than 2 hours and landing 18 Tope (Shark) between us!!!!! As the tital suggests we set out the morning after the competition for a session fishing for Tope, there was a few lads that were...
Irish Kayak Angling” Donegal competition. by Andrew McIlhone | Jul 3, 2017 | Internationalisation, Ireland That time of the year again…… Van packed I set of to the very North coast of Ireland, around 120 mile drive for the Irish kayak annual Donegal comp, one of the most beautiful places in in country and I look forward to getting up here as much as...
Pollock Bash on a wreck by Andrew McIlhone | Apr 16, 2017 | Internationalisation, IrelandWell with another decent weather forcast predicted, well for a while any ways!!! A few of us got together, one lad Ivor traveled up from near Dublin and camped Saturday night busting to get out for an early Sunday morning session, I packed the van a drove down to...
Deeper water by Andrew McIlhone | Apr 10, 2017 | Internationalisation, Ireland, UncategorizedThe weather forecast was broken here in Ireland for a day!! It predicted zero wind and temperatures around 16 degrees in spring time! Well obviously with these forecasts a few of us teamed up and headed a couple of miles offshore to a shipwreck in around 100 feet of...
Where are the fish!! by Andrew McIlhone | Apr 7, 2017 | Internationalisation, IrelandMy first outing on the salt in 2017, also my first saltwater outing on the new Kraken Elite 15.5, colour (Rockfish). I met up with a few local kayak anglers and headed to a nearby spot not far from home, the weather was not great nor was it to pick up. Once organised...
