Category: Bull Huss

Tope Under Pressure!

9/7/2017

The mission was set. Catch a Tope for a magazine article! My good friend Kyle is a writer for Saltwater Boat Angling magazine and they had a special shark edition coming up. Kyle also needed to catch his first Tope so we hatched a plan and waited for the next available weather window to try our luck.

Smooth Sharks

4/6/2017

I've been itching to get a session in on the North Coast to see if i could catch a Tope. Conditions haven't been great for several weeks but things were shaping up for an evening session with a big Spring tide. With the light evening there was just enough time for a few hours on the water after work.

New Ground - 22nd June 2015

30/6/2015

Bull Huss caught kayak fishing in Cornwall

Bit of a late report but have been busy over the last week. Weather windows seem to be very narrow of late whenever i have free time so chanced it last minute and took Holly out for a quick morning paddle and fish. We tried some new ground on the North Coast and wasn't too sure what to expect so stuck out whole mackerel flappers on 8/0's to see if anything big was hungry.......

The Big Blonde and The Big Ballan

20/9/2014

Ive been targeting the Blonde Rays quite heavily over the last few weeks in the hope of latching onto one of the 20lb+ beasts..... today was the day!

Tope-busters!

31/5/2014

I have often contemplated targeting Tope from the kayak but have never got round to trying for them. News was in of Tope showing on the North Cornwall coast so hatched a plan to dedicate a session targeting them. A bit of research online into rigs, gear and conditions and I was ready. I spent the evening before tying tope traces – 8/0 Mustad o'shaughnessy hook double crimped to 12” of 100lb Sakuma coated Wire biting trace attached via a swivel to 5ft of 80lb Fluorocarbon rubbing leader. If I hooked one I wanted to land it!

Battling with the Blondes

18/11/2013

The first catch report of the blog - enjoy!

I spend the majority of my time in Plymouth at university but every so often i get the odd weekend when i can get back home to Hayle. I watch the weather forecast eagerly when i know im going back in the hope that the weather will allow me to get out on the kayak. Last weekend one such weather window opened up so a quick message to my brother to tell him to get his gear ready and all was sorted. We were going after the Ray!