skate - does no one like fishing for ??

[Ben]

does no one like fishing for skate??

[steve devon]

ye but never caught one

going for them now

get plagued by dogs every time though

[Norfolkboy]

they can get so big, i'd be scared :lol:

i saw in sea angler mag a 196lber!! :shock:

[upnorth1]

...thats a common skate, thornbacks are good to fish for from the shore, and you can target them pretty easily, with sandeels and mackerel and ragworm, you can get good 'uns to over 10lbs.

...and they are very easy to release alive too...

[Ben]

sounds good

Hi

Tried a few times and seen others hook up and three people land fish, all very exciting and they are massive creatures but in terms of fishing as a sport, its about as interesting as watching paint dry. In fact go down to a gym, pick up a big weight on a barbel (sorry :wink: ) and rep armcurls with it a few hundred times and that is about the length and breadth of it.

It is certainly an achievement to land one of these things, even more so from the shore where arguably there is even greater skill involved but it is never going to set the blood racing like a tope racing off with yer bait!

FWIW...

[steve devon]

thornies here dont take fish baits very often

get the odd couple that do but most of them take crab and prawn here

total different from everywhere else :?

[Ben]

i would like to catch 1 but i cant see it happening in the future

[steve devon]

same here

[Ben]

i think i will just concentrate on trying to catch a fish 1st and then worry about catching other things once i can do that