Red Bay, Antrim. A cephalopod tale
Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 11:42 pm
Was invited out on a wee boat last week to scratch around Red Bay and gladly accepted the offer.
After dropping off one of the guys who started adding his own 'burly to the system' (Rex Hunt words) early on, we worked the shore for pollack for a bit then headed off into deaper water to see what was about.
Nothing particularly big all in. Best fish were a cod coming close to 4lb and some pollack around the 3lb mark, but good numbers of fish.
A few species too: cod, haddock, whiting, ling, mackerel, herring, coley, pollack, pouting, red gurnard and a few curled octopus. Big shoals of mackerel of all sizes, and a lot of decent coley, it was nice to see.
So anyway, I decided that I'd try eating one of the octopus and so threw it into a plastic bag, as you do.. Never tied a knot in the bag of course and when I got home he was nowhere to be found Searched the car thoroughly then got a message from the skipper saying that he found his daughter squealing out the back yard. She'd opened his fishing bag and discovered olly wriggling about inside. He was then forced to drive down to the shore and let it go again
A link to a wee video taken from the shore recently too fwiw - Feeding pollack bits of squid:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LofW6LzFKvU
Tight Lines an all that
Chuckaroo
.
After dropping off one of the guys who started adding his own 'burly to the system' (Rex Hunt words) early on, we worked the shore for pollack for a bit then headed off into deaper water to see what was about.
Nothing particularly big all in. Best fish were a cod coming close to 4lb and some pollack around the 3lb mark, but good numbers of fish.
A few species too: cod, haddock, whiting, ling, mackerel, herring, coley, pollack, pouting, red gurnard and a few curled octopus. Big shoals of mackerel of all sizes, and a lot of decent coley, it was nice to see.
So anyway, I decided that I'd try eating one of the octopus and so threw it into a plastic bag, as you do.. Never tied a knot in the bag of course and when I got home he was nowhere to be found Searched the car thoroughly then got a message from the skipper saying that he found his daughter squealing out the back yard. She'd opened his fishing bag and discovered olly wriggling about inside. He was then forced to drive down to the shore and let it go again
A link to a wee video taken from the shore recently too fwiw - Feeding pollack bits of squid:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LofW6LzFKvU
Tight Lines an all that
Chuckaroo
.