Sea Angling Ireland

here are two downloadable guides to help you identify fish species, the first is by the central fisheries board (now inland fisheries ireland) and the second made by SAI members Ronald and stevecrow74

both are .pdf format (you will need acrobat reader to view these files)

click on the image to link to download page

Thanks for the post! The mini species one is great with photos included : )

I have both these printed out, they helped me distinguish between a huss and LSD the other day and also a pouting and poor cod. Great reference material and also handy to have the irish specimen weights too..

Thanks for this, most helpful. I think I have been calling corkwing wrasse ballan wrasse also. And I now know my friends wee blue one was a rock cook (have photo). My father told me these fish( of which the ballan is by far the most commonly encountered here) were called rock mourin. At least thats how he said it. Another local name still used a lot is Bavan. Whether Bavan or Mourin, no one would have paid that much attention to there being varieties of these fish and the one name did them all. My father and uncles all fished purely for the pot and these fish were given no respect at all, simply as they considered them inedible and hard to handle.

This is a most helpful posting!!!!

Thanks.

cathalger wrote: My father told me these fish( of which the ballan is by far the most commonly encountered here) were called rock mourin.

an old local name for them around Dunlaoghaire was ROCK BREAM i still hear it used by some of the older lads on occasion

Interesting name John, you can see why too. They are a bit bream lookin.

Really good guide! Good info! Cheers

Great link. I have been trying to identify fish to my young lad when I wasn't 100% sure myself!

Both are grate thanks

here is a few sites that might help as well

http://www.charterboats-uk.co.uk/fishidentification/

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aquarium/inde ... teddogfish

Just joined the forum, great info here. Thanks

Thanks Steve, I just printed out both of those booklets, will be very useful thankyou!!

Cheers,just what i was looking for......

That mini species guide is very good... especially as atleast 4 of my photos are in it

Saved nicely to iPhone. Nice one. Thanks.

Great Guide there

Many thanks. now just to catch some fish

Great stuff, both very handy

thanks for the post, I think ill go and do some mini species hunting

Very nice, a well made book with the photos.