Worthing Brill

[fishyrob]

I know all you lucky guys along towards the west catch Brill and Turbot regularly from your beaches, but when I bumped into an unsersized Brill in a competition on Worthing pier, it was deemed to be unusual. I wonder if anyone else out there has experience of shore caught turbot or brill over towards eastern channel shores?

[Fishing Forum Admin]

No me mate but it is rare

[JuanPablo]

hey rob we get quite a few small turbot on the beaches in wales but i have never seen or heard of a brill on the shore...
i think the welsh record was set way back in the 70's and isnt very big.
i have once seen a tiny topknot caught at langland by a bass angler fishing with a double crab bait over very rough ground!!!

[fishyrob]

Originally Posted by JuanPablo

hey rob we get quite a few small turbot on the beaches in wales but i have never seen or heard of a brill on the shore...
i think the welsh record was set way back in the 70's and isnt very big.
i have once seen a tiny topknot caught at langland by a bass angler fishing with a double crab bait over very rough ground!!!

Topknot are actualyl quite common. DIvers see them fairly often amongst the chalk ridges, and I come across them from time to time on the live prawn. I drop netted one b mistake which was over a pound. I think if more people fished bouldery ground, we would see more caught (they are exclusive to rocky ground. When it gets rough, they suction against a rock and become glued.)
As for the Brill, I believe now that it was in fact a turbot. Still very pleased to have caught one so far east though.

[steve devon]

Few turbot caught around north cornwall when the seasons right

As for topknot, iv seen a few come off mount batten pier caught by benginners fishin right in the boulders down the side so they are there but in places not many people fish