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A few fish for the species hunt

Postby Davy Murdoch » Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:44 pm

Here`s a few fish i caught yesterday 12-7-07 at a rock mark in north donegal.the red gurnard was caught using mack on a pulley pennel,the cuckoo ray was caught using squid/mack coctail and was only my second ever.The spotted was a new species for me and it was caught using squid and those new fish baits from baitbox,not sure what they are called but the look like garfish with no beaks.I`ll put up a full report later when i have more time
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tub gurnard

Postby alannelson » Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:08 pm

tub gurnard caught today 15/07/07 at fahan on fresh mackerel.
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spotted ray

Postby alannelson » Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:47 am

spotted ray caught at north Antrim rock mark on fresh mackerel.
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plaice

Postby alannelson » Sun Jul 22, 2007 12:59 pm

I thought this was a flounder but was not sure after research it must be a plaice but the orange spots arnt as bright as usual :roll: caught from north antrim rock mark on ragworm 22/07/07
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cuckoo ray

Postby alannelson » Sun Jul 29, 2007 7:35 am

cuckoo ray caught at north Antrim rock mark on squid.
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Postby round_ourway » Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:23 am

cracking fish alan well done fella :)
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blue shark, screeming reels cork 2nd august

Postby screeming reels » Thu Aug 02, 2007 10:16 pm

hi ,
report to follow, but managed to bag a blue shark at last, caught with a mackerel flapper, on 250lb wire trace, .
Not a big one, but a start!
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Postby jd » Thu Aug 02, 2007 10:46 pm

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Re: blue shark, screeming reels cork 2nd august

Postby Mohawk » Thu Aug 02, 2007 11:02 pm

screeming reels wrote:hi ,
report to follow, but managed to bag a blue shark at last, caught with a mackerel flapper, on 250lb wire trace, .
Not a big one, but a start!
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Postby Ronald » Sat Aug 04, 2007 6:23 pm

This is a new personal best and a first for me from the shore ,caught whilst messing around at a rock mark near dingle ,I was meant to be ray fishing but when the trigger fish appeared on the mini rod everything else was forgotten about ,I had 7 and helen had 2 , this fish was 2lb 6oz ,at one stage there was shoal of around 25 following fish to the surface .
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Bull Huss

Postby bigsighleeds » Sun Aug 05, 2007 11:36 am

14lbs 5 oz Bull Huss caught of the coast of Ballycastle in June
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Re: Bull Huss

Postby jd » Sun Aug 05, 2007 10:49 pm

bigsighleeds wrote:14lbs 5 oz Bull Huss caught of the coast of Ballycastle in June


Bull Huss are already gone.
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Postby fishinmidget » Mon Aug 06, 2007 2:13 pm

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Postby round_ourway » Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:43 pm

result ronald cracking catch mate well done
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Postby round_ourway » Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:48 pm

cracking huss mate well done, some strength to lift those bad boys
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sand goby for species hunt

Postby Davy Murdoch » Sat Aug 11, 2007 2:24 pm

caught two of these tiny little fish(on purpose) yesterday 10-8-07 down at my favourite mullet mark, using mackerel on a size 16 hook.I know its sad but it was a new species so i was chuffed :D.
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Black goby for species hunt.

Postby Davy Murdoch » Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:11 pm

Caught this little black goby on 18-8-07 while fishing Lough Hyne.It took rag/squid on a size 6 hook.The only other fish i had that day was two small rock gobys.
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Postby round_ourway » Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:47 pm

Tub Gunard

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admissible species!

Postby kieran » Tue Aug 21, 2007 3:28 pm

Hi

As fascinating as it is seeing all these mini species appear - and I am sure some marine biologist out there will find the final list very useful - we will have to put some reasonable limit of what is acceptable in terms of size.

The way it is going we will be looking for diatoms next! :wink: yeah, "hooked it on a size 1250 hook baited with a single zoo-plankton, thank god the sister works in an IVF clinic, a bugger to get them on the hook"...

On a serious note a concern has been expressed that the deliberate targeting of very small species might bring us into disrepute or provide a*u*nties with easy ammunition, and that is something we would all hope to avoid...

But it is very interesting to see what is out there...
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Postby Ronald » Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:47 pm

Ah bugger ,and there was me going and buying a packet of size 20 hooks :lol: my biggest problem would be getting 20lb mono through the eye of the hook :wink:
suppose the argument could be the fish are big for their species ie.mature and not showing immature fish markings .
maybe a rule to make for the future .
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