Legends and Myths

[Johnbarton]

Hello all

My name is John and I am doing research project on legends and myths of some species of fish and any stories behind them. If anyone has any interesting tales about the following species I would be very grateful to hear them! I am living in Brixham, Devon for the next 5 months so am particularly interested in the local fish. So any information on Mackerel, Samphire, Haddock, John Dory, Pollock, Scallops, Mussels, Squid, Halibut and Monkfish would be fantastic. Also any tales of lucky or unlucky fish or superstitions about any of the different fish would be brilliant.

Thank you very much for your help, I look forward to hearing from you

John

[scottish_and_mental]

shame you didnt include the Flounder .. thats a mythical rarity as far as Lee is concerned !
as for superstitions i'm wearing my lucky spongebob squarepants boxers and am fishing tonight ... i'll let you know how i get on

[scottish_and_mental]

ahh the samphire .. now i've heard stories about that mythical fish lol .. by all accounts it's a bit of a hoe ..

if anyone has any 'interesting' tales about samphire,squid or scollops they need to get out more often !

[chrismc]

scollops sounds like a load of b-----ks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!