OFFSHORE SHARKING KAYAK STYLE
FINALLY, AFTER SEVERAL YEARS of trying, our planned day kayak fishing offshore coincided with a favourable weather forecast, allowing me and a small group of enthusiastic kayaking friends the opportunity to relive one of the greatestangling experiencesI photographed in the UK – fishing for sharks aboard kayaks in the Celtic Deeps, approximately 30 miles off the coast of Wales.
On that first trip in 2016, I joined the lads on their maiden trip and now I was going to have another chance to photograph some more truly inspirational images.
Once again, we were fishing aboard Lady Jen with skipper Rob Rennie. As we ran past St Anne’s Head at the mouth of Milford Haven a little before seven on a perfect midsummer’s morning and headed offshore beneath a cloudless blue sky, our already high levels of enthusiasm and expectation were given a further boost when we were greeted with a glassy calm sea that stretched all the way to the horizon. There was the slightest hint of a ground swell pushing landwards, just enough to gently lift Lady Jen’s twin hulls and remind us we were actually at sea.
