Mixed day off the south coast

[comanche 3,301]

A few of us spent today bobbing about in the English channel. Apart from a quiet spell when the tide was running hard we had bites all day and managed to hook enough to keep us on our toes . Surprisingly we had no d*gf*sh ( tiz a jinx to mention the word onboard ! )and apart from a couple of tiny pout everything caught was a decent size .

Bass ,black-bream , undulate ray ,pout,mackeral and garfish all found their way into the boat and I also managed to haul up a velvet crab!. As usual we took a couple of good fish each and the rest went back. Mind you with the tandem trawlers targeting the bream shoals and spear hunters belting hell out of the bass we wonder why we bother sometimes !.

 

A couple of the lads thought they could avoid paying by donning their work gear and going un-noticed . Sorry boys -wrong pattern material .

Edited April 19, 2011 by comanche

[Tyla 3,179]

Is that out of littlehampton? Im sure recognize the speed cameras sign?

[Malt 379]

Thanks for sharing.

 

I can't decide whether it's a good think or a bad thing that you aren't catching doggies like you used to.. I read somewhere that the numbers of them are in a steep decline around the British Isles. You used to catch them far too regularly a few years back, now I'm glad to catch the odd one.. It don't say a lot for the state of our seas when an adaptable, successful fish like that is starting to go missing from the waters..

[comanche 3,301]

Thanks for sharing.

 

I can't decide whether it's a good think or a bad thing that you aren't catching doggies like you used to.. I read somewhere that the numbers of them are in a steep decline around the British Isles. You used to catch them far too regularly a few years back, now I'm glad to catch the odd one.. It don't say a lot for the state of our seas when an adaptable, successful fish like that is starting to go missing from the waters..

 

Yep, Tyler -Littlehampton it is .

 

Malt. I actually don't mind the odd d*ggie -they do taste well -but something is'nt quite right I agree . The days when we curse their greedy habits as they take bait after bait (always when decent bait is in short supply !)are seemingly less common.

Round here the big tandem trawlers from outside the area are considered to have done quite a lot of damage to the once famous Kingsmere Rocks and other rough ground (not to mention the scooping -up of nets and pots of the local inshore fishermen ) which has definatly changed the fish habits . Conservationists and charter skippers are all for chaining together old tyres to make new reefs and breeding havens as has happened elswhere but "certain interests " don't seem to like the idea .

[rascal_2005 79]

bud next time you go let me know, may have a little shimmy down with youy