thornback speciman weight

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thornback speciman weight

#1 Post by lumpy »

was just flicking through the speciman book and noticed that for the umpteenth time there isnt a speciman thornback caught, do people think that the speciman weight for these is pretty high, or justified.also does anyone remember one of speciman size been caught, think i may be a little young to remember
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#2 Post by donal domeney »

Had to go back to 2003 to find the last one 21.45lbs Martin Rayner (aka screaming reels) on sept 23rd kilmore quay
Also on the same page is a photo of cooke with his spec tope
went back as far as 1998 and non showed up.
older books 1985 (3); 1989 (4); 1990 none and 1993 (1)
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#3 Post by lumpy »

thats what i thought alrite.it appears that record was significantly larger than the nearest speciman, i knew a longliner from kinsale and he always maintained there was "mittigating" factors about that record. the speciman weight still seems unjustafiably high in my opinion
shore species 2008(25):dogfish(3.1lbs), bull huss (12lb 2oz), bass, shore rockling, coalie, whiting, pollack, conger (22.4lbs),flounder, thick lipped mullet (4.8lbs),turbot,ling (11.2lbs),ballan wrasse(4.5lbs), cuckoo wrasse, pouting, poor cod, cod (9.5lbs), dab, 3 bearded rockling, long spined scorpion fish, corkwing wrasse, plaice, trigger fish, sea trout, garfish


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