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Trigger or not
Sorry guys a bit of a long question this
With me northern mates down in Doncaster on the lash and me southern mates at watchin Crawley town knock Hull out of the cup, I felt a bit at a loose end. At half time in the Liverpool game i thought i'd make use of the leftover bait in the freezer and the half a tank of fuel in the car and head over to Runswick Bay for a few hours. so with thoughts (or more realistically should i day hopes) of catching something worthy of a photo in my new NESA hoodie, into the rucksack went my camera.
I arrived to an empty beach, and got the camera out to take a few snaps before the sun went down, only to discover a dead batery
After kicking myself at this school boy error i tackled up and got cracking. A few other mad fools came onto the beach and their local expert opinion was that we would be lucky if much was about, but it was better than Saturday night TV.
So as half a dozen retrieves brought back my perfectly (
) whipped baits totally untouched i was beggining to think they were right. On the next cast though the rod tip started to rattle a bit, so i gave it a few minutes but it continued, so i thought at least the whiting are about. On winding in i thought there wa a something on but nothing sizeable. About 30 yards out just as the waves were breaking it locked up, not for long, just a second or two and then nothing. The bait this time looked like it had been raveged by something small maybe crabs even. 
So at least something was there so enthused that i may nnot blank after all baited up and cast out, and as i was settling the rod in the rest i heard a slapping noise in the shallows and on pointing my headlamp on the water i got a flash of silver, flapping about erratically. I waded in to waht was about at most 6" of water and closed in on what at first looked like a Bream then when i managed to scoop it out had a blue tinge to it's upper flank, and a tiny mouth full of little teeth. It mesaured just over 30cm had a height of about 20cm and was about 80cm in depth and felt muscley and firm in the hand.
I have seen trigger fish in magazines, but they always seem to be located in the south/southwest but didn't know they ventured up this way. I tok it along to the fella fishing along from me and his comment was 'boy that's a little lost isn't it' I then waded in and returned it and this time it flapped a little and then went straight out.
So my question is (at last i hear you gasp) was it likely to be a triggerfish, and if so how common is that for North Yorks.
I'm not claiming to have caught it, or even that it was what was i had hooked earlier, although given the state of the bait it does seem possible. If it was what was on had it come off in the surf and got confused.
Shame really, as really as whatever it was, it would have been another one for my species list and the NESA hoodie would have looked good in the photo
With me northern mates down in Doncaster on the lash and me southern mates at watchin Crawley town knock Hull out of the cup, I felt a bit at a loose end. At half time in the Liverpool game i thought i'd make use of the leftover bait in the freezer and the half a tank of fuel in the car and head over to Runswick Bay for a few hours. so with thoughts (or more realistically should i day hopes) of catching something worthy of a photo in my new NESA hoodie, into the rucksack went my camera.
I arrived to an empty beach, and got the camera out to take a few snaps before the sun went down, only to discover a dead batery
After kicking myself at this school boy error i tackled up and got cracking. A few other mad fools came onto the beach and their local expert opinion was that we would be lucky if much was about, but it was better than Saturday night TV. So as half a dozen retrieves brought back my perfectly (
) whipped baits totally untouched i was beggining to think they were right. On the next cast though the rod tip started to rattle a bit, so i gave it a few minutes but it continued, so i thought at least the whiting are about. On winding in i thought there wa a something on but nothing sizeable. About 30 yards out just as the waves were breaking it locked up, not for long, just a second or two and then nothing. The bait this time looked like it had been raveged by something small maybe crabs even. So at least something was there so enthused that i may nnot blank after all baited up and cast out, and as i was settling the rod in the rest i heard a slapping noise in the shallows and on pointing my headlamp on the water i got a flash of silver, flapping about erratically. I waded in to waht was about at most 6" of water and closed in on what at first looked like a Bream then when i managed to scoop it out had a blue tinge to it's upper flank, and a tiny mouth full of little teeth. It mesaured just over 30cm had a height of about 20cm and was about 80cm in depth and felt muscley and firm in the hand.
I have seen trigger fish in magazines, but they always seem to be located in the south/southwest but didn't know they ventured up this way. I tok it along to the fella fishing along from me and his comment was 'boy that's a little lost isn't it' I then waded in and returned it and this time it flapped a little and then went straight out.
So my question is (at last i hear you gasp) was it likely to be a triggerfish, and if so how common is that for North Yorks.
I'm not claiming to have caught it, or even that it was what was i had hooked earlier, although given the state of the bait it does seem possible. If it was what was on had it come off in the surf and got confused.
Shame really, as really as whatever it was, it would have been another one for my species list and the NESA hoodie would have looked good in the photo
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