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Sea Angling for Spearos

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a 1st for me today. A Red Gurnard caught on feathers. Also saw my first sunfish on the surface. Looked healthy
 
Hi Pav,
how big was the sunfish?
I've looked for them all over the world and never seen one yet.
Strange looking creatures they are.
 
Large dustbin lid. This was on the North Devon coast, about 2km out towards hightide. Fair bit of chop on the surface. Friend spotted one up here 2 years ago but it was looking pretty sickly. This one looked fit and healthy.
 
Well the nipper showed me how the ultra light lure fishing is supposed to be done yesterday.

He took 3 Giant Gobies to equal my 3 and then polished it off with an enormous tompot blenny to take the challenge 4-3. The biggest goby and the tompot below.

All taken on a 1.75g football head and Power isome red worm thingys in strawberry flavour
 

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takes me back to my "cabouing" days down portlet. (is that how you spell it?) I've caught tompot blennys and giant gobys before, but nothing like that, those are immense, did you weigh them?
 
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takes me back to my "cabouing" days down portlet. (is that how you spell it?) I've caught tompot blennys and giant gobys before, but nothing like that, those are immense, did you weigh them?
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Not weighed as I didn't have my mini scales but will pop them in the van I think. The record tompot is only 5oz or so but I have no idea how big a fish that weight actually is..
 
Been doing a bit of rod and line fishing from the Yak due to the poor local conditions. Got in 2 days ago, with a view that it was probably ok to spear, but another day would give better conditions and I would go to it fresh. :head .. what actually happened was the wind picked up the following day and stired it all up.

The evening fish however was good. Tide was running against the wind and it was a bit bumpy, but when the tide reached its top it went glassy and with the sun setting had a few mackeral and 4 pollock which were all around 3lb. All on mackeral feathers, but with a fat plastic weighted lure chasing at the bottom. I've not had pollock like this on a feather rig before so wonder if the chasing lure as on umbrella rigs tempted them to the feather further up the line?

My daughter (4yrs) has managed a better pollock and is proudly telling people that she caught and ate her fish for her tea. Refers to it as a Pollet .. which I think is a hybrid Mullet/Pollock rofl.

Summer seems to be passing quickly with too few good viz days. I'm holding out for the September Bass!
 
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I caught a small bass on the Eddystone I had trailing some fancy feathers once - so perhaps it's a matter of catching their eye (umbrella-rig fashion, as you say) and then the fish deciding which lure/feather it fancies (easiest/meatiest/most attractive)?

BTW I had one session in the yak on holiday. I trolled a medium eddystone eel after me all the time, on a small hand-line. When I got sufficiently uptide I deployed mackerel feathers with a 3 or 4 oz weight, on a small hand-line, and drifted the entire length of the bay back to my starting position, jigging the old, shortened mackerel feathers up & down the entire way. It seemed like quite a good approach - no bites though.
 
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Went out to the local power plant lake, Lake Calaveras, just south of San Antonio. Used chicken liver to bring in two nice catfish. Others are using large silver spoons to bring in redfish (drum). Fellow next to me caught 2 32" fish and a couple were cleaning a 36" when I came in. I'm heading out next Wednesday with a coworker to hit it with the spoons.
 
Good work on the cats. Those drums sound huge!!

I have been away for 2 weeks just got back yesterday.

Only went fishing once for a morning trip but the skipper didn't find anything large enough to take the lures!! This was in Madeira.
 

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Ooh cool , I've wanted to fish with those honking great flat-head muppet lures since seeing them at the CLA Game Fair.
 
They were beasts, I guess they must have weighed close to a pound in weight, nothing I have can cast then and they needed about 10 knots to get them working!!
 
I've started this year on a species hunt with the lures. I managed 12 species last year, but I am working on beating it already. Up to 3 so far with pollack, ballan wrasse and goldsinny wrasse.

Here's the Goldsinny since it's the pretty one, weighed in at 50 grams, the record locally is 56 grams so not too bad.

Once it warms up a bit I will take the nipper out with me and we can have a competition again.

 
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Cor! a few year ago, I would of bought that off you mate!! - I tried to catch one for years to go in my cold water marine tank.
12 species eh good luck then.
PS Andy I caught a couple of cod in early December of the Doyle, from my boat but only 100mt from the fort.
 
There's loads of them there Mart, we had several last year in the same spot if you set up the tank again. There's also loads of blennies and corkwings as well. I'm hoping for a rock cook but not holding my breath.
 
wow... lures allready.... they dont come out around here till april... good effort!
 
Lures work year round but you have to fish for what's there, not what isn't there, or you will blank all day and night! There are some bass about at the moment on lures and bait, but not for me yet, I was going to go today but I missed the tide so maybe tomorrow while the weather is calmer.
 
According to Dougal L on the radio today, the fishing has never been as good as it is now, for the last 30 years!
There are more Brill & Turbot around now than there has ever been in his fishing career!!
Can you believe that Andy?
 
That's not what the other commercials are saying and though the two bass clubs had good years for numbers there was a distinct lack of better fish, lots and lots in the 3-5lb bracket. No fish on the Boue this year... Unless they turned up in the last week. Apparently the water is too warm. excuse me while I clear my throat.......
 
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