Earlier this week, my species hunting mate Gordon invited me for a day out afloat aboard his Warrior 165. After a fairly early start we arrived at the slipway of Crinan Harbour over on the west coast of Scotland. It was a nice day weather wise and the sea conditions were pretty good too. We were both hoping to get lucky and perhaps catch black mouthed dogfish and maybe even luckier still and catch cuckoo ray but we both knew that a certain other shark species would no doubt dominate the day, the much maligned lesser spotted dogfish. We were also aware that some skate might pick up our small baits too. Not really what you want to happen in several hundred feet of water when your fishing fairly light tackle!
Well, things went pretty much as we expected, we had no luck locating any black mouthed dogfish or cuckoo ray, and by the end of the day we'd caught so many lesser spotted dogfish we'd lost count. Gordon caught a solitary spurdog and we both caught one thornback ray each. Thankfully, no skate gobbled our small mackerel and squid baits!
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| Baby shark, doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo! |
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| I love the eyes on thornback rays. |
So, no unusual shark species were caught. Still, I enjoyed the fishing, and it was a relaxing day out in good company and weather. I've got a couple more boat trips coming up soon that I'm excited about later this month. A day species hunting around the Mull of Galloway is first up, followed by a day out of Weymouth targeting butterfly blenny, red band fish and other small unusual species. I'm quite looking forward to stretching my sea legs again!
Tight lines, Scott.
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