species ID please

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#1 Post by **thompo** » Tue May 08, 2007 1:35 am

caught this wee fellow tonight, in Bangor.

no idea what he is lol, Turbot maybe purely on the size of his mouth haha, bit only touched the bottom and he wolfed down some crab on a 1/0.
hooked quite deep but no barbs so came out handy enough

it had smooth skin both sides and more oval shaped than a flounder for example, under side was pure white. he was quite thick also maybe 3/4-1"

also i think i had a tadpole fish, similar looking to a rockling, but fatter head, only 1 barb on chin and very dark almost black colouring was about 20cm

#2 Post by **Ronald** » Tue May 08, 2007 1:39 am

you've managed to get yourself a topknot ,rare as hens teeth ,I got one a few years ago down the pier ,it sounds like you had a tadpole fish as well ,so a good night for raritys :lol: well done .

#3 Post by **Ronald** » Tue May 08, 2007 1:41 am

Btw were you fishing the front of the pier ?

#4 Post by **thompo** » Tue May 08, 2007 1:47 am

good man cheers :D

aye not a bad night 2 all together new species to me and 3 others for this year, Pout, poor cod and short horned sea sculpin

never ever heard of a topknot before lol, will have to get him into the species hunt, quite surprsied when he took the bait, literally touched the bottom and he was on!

#5 Post by **thompo** » Tue May 08, 2007 1:50 am

fished the back end got the tadpole on crab and a tiny sea sculpin on mack, tide was dropping dead low so went dangling off the platform and hit the topknot, pout and poor cod. the pout were the biggest ive seen, maybe about 1/2 lb good craic on a light rod with braid. all the fish were loving the crab but razor and mack seemed to work for the bigger pout

#6 Post by **Jonny** » Tue May 08, 2007 6:09 am

Well done Thompo,Thats a new one to me as well. 8) 8) :D

#7 Post by **Drew** » Tue May 08, 2007 10:06 am

Excellent Thompo, A True Rarity.. 8)

#8 Post by **chrisfeeney30** » Tue May 08, 2007 3:12 pm

nice! well done! rare species!

#9 Post by **Dave Jolly** » Tue May 08, 2007 6:43 pm

It looks like an eckstroms topknot rather than the common topknot which is a lot darker, so it's an even rarer catch... nice one.

#10 Post by **corbyeire** » Tue May 08, 2007 11:13 pm

i havent seen any topknots - but from the cfb description it seems like a common one looking at the pictures provided

"both dorsal and anal fins are continued under the tail on the blind side"

#11 Post by **Davy Murdoch** » Wed May 09, 2007 9:28 pm

def a common topnot.common topknot has dark bands from eyes,fins appear to join with tail fin but actually go under it, and dark spot(circled) at curve of lateral line.

jealous as hell by the way :lol:

glengormley-gavin · Wed May 09, 2007 9:41 pm

Well done thompo.

Jude

#13 Post by **thompo** » Thu May 10, 2007 10:08 am

Cheers lads :D

had no idea it was a quite rare capture lol

but i knew id never seen one before haha.

Couldnt belive the size of the mouth on the thing! It seems a lot of these smaller species, have relatively big months compared to their over all size, rockling, sea scorpions etc