fish species encountered when gathering bait

while diggin lug: sandeels. small flounder, small turbot, smelts, butterfish, crabs, pipefish, dead seals, dead lumpsuckers, heart shaped sea urchins and various types of jelly fish...

while collecting other baits: sunbathers, crabs, rats, otters, weasels, foxes, kestrels, sparrow hawks, spinners, feathers, various rigs, loads of leads and underwear :shock: :shock: :shock:

while diggin lug: sandeels. small flounder, small turbot, smelts, butterfish, crabs, pipefish, dead seals, dead lumpsuckers, heart shaped sea urchins and various types of jelly fish...

while collecting other baits: sunbathers, crabs, rats, otters, weasels, foxes, kestrels, sparrow hawks, spinners, feathers, various rigs, loads of leads and underwear :shock: :shock: :shock:

no socks? lol

while collecting other baits: sunbathers, crabs, rats, otters, weasels, foxes, kestrels, sparrow hawks, spinners, feathers, various rigs, loads of leads and underwear :shock: :shock: :shock:

Was this in Ireland? If so then it was probably a stoat, AFAIK there are no weasels in this country :?

Was this in Ireland? If so then it was probably a stoat, AFAIK there are no weasels in this country :?

a weasel is weasely recognised, a stoat is stoatally diffetent :D

probably a stoat so..

Although you will not find the weasel in Ireland, you can find stoats there. To confuse matters, stoats in Ireland are called weasels, because they are smaller than the stoats found on mainland Britain.

Came across juvenile red mullet in a couple of locations recently. Found that fairly interesting as they must be spawning here.

Ed.

Can anyone identify these? Not strictly encountered while gathering bait - coughed up from a codling caught on a shallow inshore reef within a couple of hundred yards from the shoreline.

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bottom could be a red mullet

Could the top one be a weaver?

bottom one is a small wrasse, cant remmeber the species

top one looks like it might be a goby

bottom one looks like a wrasse and the top one look a bit like a tadpole fish to me

looks like a goby on top and a rock cook wrasse on the bottom ,def not tadpole fish .

Probably right Ronald. The wrasse could also be a goldsinny. Looks like the remains of a dark spot on the dorsal surface in front of the caudal fin which would make it a goldsinny.

Gold shinny would be right ,forgot about the wee spot up on top of the wrist of the tail :oops:

still going with tadpole fish for the top or a torsk i think some call them, usually a bit darker in colour but digestive juices of the stomach would have desolved the pigment in the skin, ive had cod spit up butterfish before that werre pure white because of the digestive juices in the stomach

Definetly not a tadpole fish or a Torsk as I've caught quite a few of both species ,scales are to big for either . both have more eel like skin rather than scales .

i dont know ive caught a few myself kido wouldnt knock it, i call for a DNA test.

100 euros says it neither a tadpole fish (lesser fork beard) or a torsk :lol:

then what is t :lol:

rock goby

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