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#221 Post by Drew »

Ronald wrote:Got this black-mouthed dogfish on the antrim coast on a cracking day ,not alot of fish around but I was delighted to get a new species .BTW Davy got his first so 15 points to him :cry:


:shock: I take it these were from the Boat? :shock:
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#222 Post by Ronald »

Yeah from the boat drew ,though I'd love to get one from the shore :lol:
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#223 Post by jonny gilbert »

corkwing wrasse bangor peir 15/4/2007
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2010 species list: coalies, flounder, whiting, pollock, cod, doggie, sea trout, pouting, poor cod, short spined sea scorpion, long spined sea scorpion, 3 breaded rockling, shore rockling, 5 breaded rockling, tompot blenny, mackie, placie, dab, bullhuss, conger, ballan wrasse, corkwing wrasse, goldshinny wrasse,thronie, lesser weaver, bass, tub gurnard, red gurnard, grey gurnard, shanny, rock goby, turbot,

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#224 Post by jonny gilbert »

tompot blenny catch at bangor harbour 17/4/2007
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2010 species list: coalies, flounder, whiting, pollock, cod, doggie, sea trout, pouting, poor cod, short spined sea scorpion, long spined sea scorpion, 3 breaded rockling, shore rockling, 5 breaded rockling, tompot blenny, mackie, placie, dab, bullhuss, conger, ballan wrasse, corkwing wrasse, goldshinny wrasse,thronie, lesser weaver, bass, tub gurnard, red gurnard, grey gurnard, shanny, rock goby, turbot,

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#225 Post by jonny gilbert »

goldshinny wrasse catch at bangor 17/4/2007
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2010 species list: coalies, flounder, whiting, pollock, cod, doggie, sea trout, pouting, poor cod, short spined sea scorpion, long spined sea scorpion, 3 breaded rockling, shore rockling, 5 breaded rockling, tompot blenny, mackie, placie, dab, bullhuss, conger, ballan wrasse, corkwing wrasse, goldshinny wrasse,thronie, lesser weaver, bass, tub gurnard, red gurnard, grey gurnard, shanny, rock goby, turbot,

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#226 Post by stevecrow74 »

Grey Gurnard, and a Ballan Wrasse caught on slither of mack between the Aran islands..

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#227 Post by jd »

38 species.

Ballan Wrasse
Corkwing Wrasse
Goldsinny wrasse

are gone
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#228 Post by fishinmidget »

so is tompot blenny
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silver eel

#229 Post by barry murphy »

silver eel got at passage strand on 23rd 4/07
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#230 Post by jonny gilbert »

starry smoothound is not the biggest but its my first ever so i'm all chuffed
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#231 Post by jd »

jonny gilbert wrote:starry smoothound is not the biggest but its my first ever so i'm all chuffed


Where did you get him? Peeler crab for bait?
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#232 Post by fishinmidget »

short spined sea scorpoion caught spiddal using mack strip.

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#233 Post by fishinmidget »

and that hook is a size 2 just for an idea of the size :lol:
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#234 Post by jonny gilbert »

JD i caught starry smoothie on courtown on sunday 29th april on straight rag. we had loads of the wee smooties and dogs and bass.
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#235 Post by stevecrow74 »

fishinmidget wrote:short spined sea scorpoion caught spiddal using mack strip.


looks like long spined to me :?
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#236 Post by Ronald »

they do look a bit on the long side for a s.s.s. ,especially for the size of the fish ,any photos of the throat area ?
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#237 Post by fishinmidget »

no sorry. i just thought it was a short spined because the description matched the one on a web page i looked up. wasnt a great description though.
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mackerel

#238 Post by barry murphy »

1st mackerel of the year got today :lol:
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bull huss and gray gurnard

#239 Post by barry murphy »

got today 5-5-07.pic of bigger huss is not great with glare off sun.
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#240 Post by thompo »

a TopKnot apparently :shock:

caught of bangor pier on a 2 hook boom rig size 1/0's on crab
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species so far 2007 (18....)
Conger, Codling, Coalfish, Shore Rockling, Dab, Flounder, Dogfish, 3 beard rocking, Pollack, Whiting, Pouting, Red cod, Poor Cod, Tadpole fish, Short and Long splined sea sculpin, TopKnot, Cukcoo Ray,

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