Smoothound Pup Or Tope Pup??

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#1 Post by **Larry 90** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 1:07 am

Me and a friend went fishing a North Wexford Beach The Weekend quite uneventful until dark and we start catching theese ive caught smoothies before it just all the pups ive caught their noses arent like this! And im nearly sure that they had teeth which i know smoothies dont! I was unsure so we took a quick photo and off he went! 2 or 3 Whole "party squid" and frozen black lug was what they were taking! this cocktail seemed to get a good bite every time and Rag and sandeel went untouched! We got nothing else not even a flounder and i was thinking these lads had scared everything away!

I said id ask could anyone here give a second opinion

Thanks Larry

saltydog · #2 Post by **saltydog** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 1:35 am

It's a pup Tope...

#3 Post by **Larry 90** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 1:52 am

Cheers Man New Species for 2011

#4 Post by Al » Tue Jun 14, 2011 3:46 pm

saltydog wrote:It's a pup Tope...

Yeah Pup Tope, You can get loads of them this time of year on the Wicklow beaches...you can also get rigs back with no hooks too

Tue Jun 14, 2011 3:54 pm

can you lads that answered that tell me how ye could distinguish it was a pup tope lads,,,thanks

#6 Post by **Hooker** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 4:28 pm

Insert index finger into mouth of fish in question, teet = tope. For larger specimens insert index finger into mouth of fish in question, if index finger comes back squashed and mangled it's a smoothy if index finger is missing it would be a tope

#7 Post by Al » Wed Jun 15, 2011 12:11 am

You can also tell by the shape and look of the nose of ya wanna keep your fingers. Although I don't think one that size would do much damage.

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