everyones species list ending/starting

everyone ready to top off their species list for 2008?!
time now to start species list 2009
can't wait to get mine going,
my first ever recorded yearly catch!
who will record the first whiting of the year?

looking forward to the new year too,hope to get out more

'm not going to embarrass you all next year by putting down all my species, i'm just going to put up personal bests (also saves trying to remember everything )

I hope to get out fishing more next year and like Thomas keep a log for the first time. This year was for me quite poor fishing wise, I didn't get out half as much as previous years and unsurprisingly didn't catch as much or as many species. So for next year more fishing, more fish and hopefully more new species.

This year was my first ever species hunt.. The lads on another site started it off so I said I would give it a go… they found it was too much hassle keeping track of the hunt as they had a lot of other work to do with the site and so they knocked it on the head,

But I found it a great incentive to go after species of fish that I wouldn’t dream of targeting and found that I enjoyed it as much as any other type of fishing,

This year I caught 23 species from the shore with 4 specimens amongst them… I never knew that there was so many species to be had from the shore and even though they stopped the hunt on the other site I’m still thankful to them for setting me off on a very enjoyable trip,

I would like to start this year as I did last with a Bass…

Cant explain the buzz I get when I go after a certain species and finally catch it… But its good

sounds good my first full year of fishing ahead id be happy with 20 species so thats the target

hey rustyhookthomas im gonna whop your ass this year starting new years day!!

hey rustyhookthomas im gonna whop your ass this year starting new years day!!

lets do it granddad
i'll be kicking off in arklow on 01/01/09!
can feel the bites already

achill island, new years day!! come on then young un,let the grandda show you how its done!!

ended up with 30 irish species and that was the target so im happy enough , but still no ray . got no bass this year either, ah well thats how it goes. i did get my first mullet, turbot and smoothound though so cant complain.

first whitin will b me. ha ha ha

i'll fish millisle 2 see if i can get one there are few movin in.

i'll maybe get last sesh of the year 2morro

who is going to get the first codling their better than whiting by far.

My 1st year at this sea angling lark (hadnt picked up a rod in over 15 years ), and didnt start until March '08, so I'm reasonably pleased to have hit the 30 mark.

Shame I couldnt have got 1 or 2 more species yesterday evening, but thats my lot for this year anyway, however.......maybe my species count is a bit better than I think as my identification isnt always the best........I could have easily had the odd poor cod and thought it to be a pouting :

Anyhow, I've set a marker down for next year....30 to beat

hopefully get my target for 09 of 60-70 species.

08 target- 70 got 69
SO CLOSE

how many did you actually get from the sea

37 sea
29 coarse
3 game

37 sea
29 coarse
3 game

man, thats impressive. i mean really good. what species exactly did you get in the sea and coarse?

sea- thick lipped mullet, golden grey mullet, cod, red cod, pouting, poorcod, pollack, coalies, thin lipped mullet, mackerel, 5 bearded rockling, 3 bearded rockling, shore rockling, silver eel, marine stickleback, LSD, haddock, flounder, dab, plaice, whiting, shanny, giant goby, rock goby, black goby, sand goby, blennie,
coarse- roach, rudd, bream, skimmer bream, dace, common carp, mirror carp, goldfish, golden orfe, tench, pike, perch, eel, gudgeon, minnow, 3 spined stickleback, 9 spined stickleback, lamprey, bleak, roach/ bream hybrid, rudd/ bream hybrid, roach/ rudd hybrid, leather carp, crucian carp, linear carp, fullyscaled mirror carp, stone loach,


this is what i can remember i'll check my list to check the rest shortly and post it on 2moro.

ok so.......27 sea out of 37 so far.....cod and red cod are the same species by the way.

as for the coarse, 27 out of 29......and calling linear carp, fullyscaled mirror carp and mirror carp different species is splitting hairs the the 10th degree. also skimmer bream and bream are the same species.

not trying to bring you down here, but its not good to be kidding yourself about what species you have caught.

mirror carp have patches of scales down the body, linear have a line of scales, leathers have some scales along the back and fullyscaled are a bit like common but scales atre larger, yes they are the same strain, but so are commons.

fair nuff. i do know what they look like by the way, i used to do alot of coarse and pike fishing

what about the rest of the sea species?