Lyme Regis report

[Pross]

Thanks for the best wishes, I need the points for my Club matches, I'm lying in 8th place at the mo So I need a win

Just as well none of your club mates are members of this forum and doing the species hunt then!!!!

[Lookfar]

Originally Posted by Old Smoothound

It looks like a Pout to me, but the only way to tell properly is that if scales come off in your hand then its a Poor cod.

The Lyme Regis pic is definitely a pout, the picture put up later is a poor cod. Look at the pelvic (gill) fin. On a poor cod, the fin reaches a line level with the anal vent. On the pout, it pretty well starts at that line and the fin reaches way past. The body of the pout is much deeper than the head, the poor cod head is almost same profile as the body and the eyes are much larger in relation to the body than those of the pout. Plus the pout in the first pic looks to be 12oz plus. That'd be a pretty big poor cod. Usually pout have barred sides which poor cod do not, but a lack of bars is common in pout, as that pic demonstrates and we often see in open ground fish in winter.

Hope that helps.


Steve

[luke6661982]

Well that has cleared a lot up with regards to the pout and the poor cod, i can see the difference now between them, even though i cant see the difference between the carp you darkside catch!!!

The pout in the first picture weighed 2lbs 8oz (slightly bigger than 12oz), and the cuckoo wrasse was about 1lb.

[Old Smoothound]

Originally Posted by luke6661982

What club are you in Old smoothie???

To be lying 8th, you must be in the elite of the world!!!!

Are your competitions based around specimen ratings or bag totals?

Species of fish plus weight, i.e. if above qualifying size 45 points for a Black Bream....1.5 points for a Dawgy, 35 points for a Smoothound etc, then points for % specimen of weight if over qualifying species weight.

So a man can catch 30 doggies in a day, but be beaten by 1 Bream inside qualifying size.

Cuckoo Wrasse 15 points, Pout 1.5 points etc

Confused ....so am I most of the time, so I just bag em and tag em and let someone else do the work

So I'm targeting Bream and Cuckoo Wrasse, Pollock and Tope through the day. Change rigs baits rods etc to suit where we are fishing. If a Conger hole then a whole Mackeral Flapper to cover Tope and Conger at the same time

One trick I use for the Bream is to put a large swimfeeder between the lead and the start of the trace and fill it with all sorts of bits and bobs to draw fish to my baits, and bounce it back away from the boat.

[pingu]

Originally Posted by Old Smoothound

Where there any Trigger fish caught in your comp?

hi smoothy just to let you know triggers are coming off from the shore @chesil regulary now (and i cant go ), dont know how this helps with boat from beer but similar area(15 mile )

[Old Smoothound]

Cheers Dave, I guess they re from the Adelaide area, but they could be in Lyme Bay....somewhere