Can you confirm this species

Hi all, I have just come back from fishing in Wexford, myself & the young lad, and caught the usual combination of Plaice & Dabs, however I caught a small flatfish that was unlike anyother i have seen, for a start it was nearly perfectly round, and the colouring was completely different from Plaice or Dabs, the colouring was almost identical to the Brill picture in species guide, and it has small eyes.But according to the description, it occurs more on the west coast.Can anyone confirm that it was a Brill and if so how common are these fish????? :roll:

Sounds a bit like a turbot ,brill tend to be more oval shaped both are the same colour so it can be hard to tell the difference .

[Wayne]

As last post, sounds like a Turbot to me.

Last edited by Wayne on Mon May 23, 2005 1:53 pm, edited 1 time in total.

As last post, sound like a Turbot to me.

http://www.charterboats-uk.co.uk/Z%20-% ... cation.htm

could be a turbot, small one though

Does sound like Herbert the Turbot. Caught one a few weeks ago, beer mat size. Read up on it and from what I can gather they breed around March - May and the young ones then hang around the shallows for a year or two before going deep. Put my logic of 'If there's little uns there, there must be big uns anawl' right out the window.
Fish identification in glorious colour: http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aquarium/

Have to agree lads, it does look like a turbot, just didn't think of looking at it as, it was not very big, and threw it straight back anyway.Well it ads to my very short species list.