Rightio Lads wierdest fish you\"ve caught from the shore???

[Marky]

Just wondering as where getting all this talk of global warming attracting species from further south to feed on the ground up here.

Mine was a Tub Gurnard from Mucky Bay about 5-6 years ago.

[Brashy]

me mate last year caught the strangest fish i had ever seen so far. We were fishing at the walkway, and he got a kanny nock, he reeled in and it was like ??? dont know wot it was like apart from it was long with the top half of it being a bright blue and the bottom being silver it had a top fin which was kanny big. Some bloke came over and told us it was a dragon something ???? . It was a lovely fish and i had never seen one before looked like a tropical fish to me. ?

[5150]

You people catch FISH?! B*****ds, I never catch owt me....

Brashy, sounds like a Dragonet, the males are absolutely stunning if you see them in mating colours... I\'ve caught them off Blyth pier in the summer before, usually on a morning tide....
Found this pic on fishbase.org -


Found a hagfish on the beach one time, a sunfish washed up on s/sluice beach when i was a kid... actual capture wise though I\'ve not had anything unusual really... Twaite Shad from the pier a couple of years back, lumpsucker from Amble pier....

[Rab]

I had a small halibut from the shore at Etive before. Also had ling from the shore and a red gurnard while feathering.

[crack-off!]

Fished a club match last night and a lad came back from Cresswell beach with a thornback that had been washed up!

[lesforrest]

seen a 2 1/2 pound angler fish off shields pier a few years back,bert also witnessed it

[Falcone]

mine is probably that 2 and a half pound conger that i caught in the NESA comp last week....

[Ell]

I caught a 2\" ragworm off Roker Pier, honest, spinning for macky and it was stuck to the treble when i wound in

[BriH]

while spinning for sea trout at white rocks in Northern Ireland with Sless ,I caught a Turbot the size of a tea saucer. :P

[TC]

An in-size Codling !!

[MikeR]

Somehow caught a starfish spinning off Whitby pier last year.

[Ant]

I\'ve have some that have surprised me, like cuckoo wrasse and whiting when spinning. Codling when float fishing and a black bream from the shore near my caravan in SW Scotland.

On Starfish, we (me and Rich) were getting them just about every chuck when redgilling nr. Port Patrick.

Had quite a few gurnards when feathering for mackerel, both at Shields pier and over the west coast.

[crack-off!]

After my post yesterday about the thornback at creswell,hows about this one!just got back in from fishing a sea league match at newbiggin and one of the newbiggin lads caught a cuckoo ray on the private beach!!Another one also was also found in a rockpool!
Whats going on????

[Marky]

I know , Its proper mad isnt it?

Only the other week a lad I know had a Dogfish off the local pier now no one has ever seen a dogfish caught round here apart from that one.

Our old fella had a Turbot off seaton beach about 6 years ago but with the Bass and the Mullet there now i cant say im that suprised at that.

Just to think in 1992 a 4lb bass made the headlines of the Hartlepool Mail because it was a rare species to be seen in Hartlepool, theres plenty of them now.

[Ant]

I\'ll not be complaining! (Surprising, I Know!)

I had a doggy at Craster about 4yrs back and Ell\'s got one at Roker and either TC or Ian C mentioned seeing one on Shields Pier. Seem to remember hearing about a huss of Whitley pipe in the last couple of years too. But catching rays would be a bonus and they come up quite a wat so you wonder why they don\'t come much further. Can\'t be that much colder?