I made the most of some nice weather last week, heading down to St Abbs Harbour for a session with fellow species hunter Luke. We set ourselves a target of ten species just after we started fishing and ended up catching nine.
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| Some juvenile pollock were the first species of the day. |
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| Working a small piece of ragworm over the bottom produced a few long spined sea scorpion. |
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| Dropping my rig close to the edge of a kelp bed by the harbour mouth produced my first ballan wrasse of the year. |
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| Heading around the harbour, I caught this flounder. |
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| Whilst trying to catch a corkwing from a gully this chunky blenny appeared and munched my bait. |
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| We spent a bit of time fishing over a clean sandy patch, sight fishing for this nice plaice which we both ended up catching! |
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| Tying on tanago hooks, we both caught some painted goby from a shallow sandy patch. |
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| Back at the mouth of the harbour, Luke caught a few corkwing wrasse before I finally caught this nice colourful male. |
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| Not long before we called it a day, we both caught some codling. |
During the session, we spotted quite a lot of fifteen spined stickleback and tried to catch them, but only one briefly showed any interest in a tiny piece of ragworm. I also spent some time sight fishing for a solitary dragonet, but despite repeatedly twitching a bait past it, it just couldn’t be tempted. Two sea trout also swam into the harbour just before we left, so whilst we didn’t reach our little goal, it was achievable. Regardless, it had still been an enjoyable day down in the sun-kissed Scottish Borders.
Tight lines, Scott.
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