sardines

[twinkle]

lads anyone know if there are sardines in our waters? when we were out on saturday jayson caught two what i thought were very small herrings but looking back now they were very like sardine

[andyfish]

apparently you can catch them in cornwall so dont see why you couldnt catch them here

[MAC]

did you manage to nab any pics Derek? That would a very interesting one, especially this early in they year.

[twinkle]

no kevin iv no camera on my phone or on the boat. i will get one organized. im pretty sure they were sardines though.we were fishing 6 rods, 2 with bait ,different rigs on the other 4 so there was traffic on the boat constantly as the minis kept filling up the sabikis. i was reeling in a double of doggies at the time so dident pay much attention until i was using it as bait.pretty sure they were sardine

[fastnet]

There are shoals of pilchards our name for sardines along the south coast every summer.It is quite possible that you caught some.There used to be a big pilchard fishery in Cornwall where oil was extracted and the flesh salted.