What species?

[squidworth]

Mine is a weaver fish

[fishingmark]

Not too exotic but a corkwing wrasse would be my rarest.

[Stewart 1971]

Red Mullet off Tynemouth Pier.

Now that is a reare and unexpected catch. I've had a few Red Mullet (not actually a member of the Mullet family, more properly known as a Goatfish) out of the Solent when I lived in Portsmouth but even on the south coast they are a very rare catch being a warm water species more commonly seen in the Med.

I had that Turbot on Sunday but mine would have to be this little Grey Gurnard I caught on Seaham North pier a couple of years ago:

[paulthespark]

a wooden fork lift pallet [thought i had a monster on ]

[bigroppa]

Not me but my mate had a mackerel on lugworm and squid. Strange thing was, it was on the 5th of December off cambois beach.

[david.northeast]

Red gurnard off the boat a few year ago from amble

[thommaz]

mines an eel pout off the groyne

[lambtonworm]

Now that is a reare and unexpected catch. I've had a few Red Mullet (not actually a member of the Mullet family, more properly known as a Goatfish) out of the Solent when I lived in Portsmouth but even on the south coast they are a very rare catch being a warm water species more commonly seen in the Med.

I had that Turbot on Sunday but mine would have to be this little Grey Gurnard I caught on Seaham North pier a couple of years ago:

you would be surprised how many greys come of the 44 mark on shields during the summer months ,i had about 6 while fishing for plaice.

[lambtonworm]

mine would be two Spurdogs in one session on the Blast Beach in the early 80's also had the odd Octopus,Tadpole Fish,Shad and Corkwing Wrasse over recent years.

[beachbuddy]

My weirdest fish is a Torsk just over 3lb.Quite a rare fish to be caught in shallow inshore waters.
Taken from the wash end of the South pier in the 80,s.
Its now in a jar in Sunderland museum.

Torsk

Well done davey did you get paid for it

[on the mark]

Probably a Weaver for me, taken on a tursty old Zen

Watch out if you hook one of these they can sting you !!




Strangest looking would have to be the trusty old Long Spined Sea Scorpion





perfectly harmles as Wee Ver said, but a face only a mother could love lol

harmless when you pick them up like that but they've got some really sharp spines on them, seen a lot of these caught over the years.

[heres johnny]

tadpole fish

had a tadpole fish off blyth pier didn't weigh it prob 2lb plus couldn't b axed to kill it to get a certificate 2yrs l8r

[Pete from shields]

A hagfish, horrible slimey funny coloured thing that I had no idea of what it was at the time. Also caught a jelly fish which isn't really strange or unusual lol, it was unusual as it was on a spinner.

[Ray.J.]

My mate had a Gilthead Bream off the hot water outfall at Cambois in the 1980's sometime. It is now in Hancock museum as the only other one caught locally was at Newbiggin in a net around 1900 if I remember correctly!

[fozally]

Had a Haddock out of the Tyne up at Jarrow pedestrian tunnel about 6yrs ago. And a nice size Doggy off the Walkway a couple weeks ago.