Shields pier

[fish fingers]

My mates fish is it a tadpole fish

[david.northeast]

Looks like one to me

[toonboymc]

Looks like one , has he not took it out of a pond lol

[mad rob aka crabstick]

looks like one m8 but saying that iv never seen one lol u no what i meen though

[Davey-m]

Is that what a nice fat cod coughed up mate

[lumpsucker]

Not 100 sure, but i dont think its a tadpole. Snout is too pointy and the tail tapers too fast from the head. I got a tadpole on roker in Jan, pics in the species hunt.

The one i got is much darker, longer and thicker in the body, with a very big mouth and very round head. The jaw was flat, like pacman, not curved, and it had a pronounced grey white lateral line
Not sure what this is mate, maybe some kind of Blenny? It could be a juvenile tadpole, but it looks quite different to the one I got. Maybe thunderpants will have a better idea when he gets a look at it. It's certainly an unusual catch to me, well done, one for the scrapbook!

[mickbrennan]

here's one my son caught

[lumpsucker]

Snap! Lol

[lambtonworm]

it looks like a Common Sea Snail Stan,anything but common on Shields though ..

[Mogthemackem]

^^^^^ this. Never seem one caught before. Is there a fish you don't know andy lol

[lambtonworm]

^^^^^ this. Never seem one caught before. Is there a fish you don't know andy lol

Ive spent most of my life fishing or working around fish,find all sorts in the prawns when your sorting them ...

[dabcatcher]

its a .... montagu's sea snail..

on the ...sea snail ...the dorsal and anal fins are connected to caudal fin [tail]

on the mantagu's they arnt. the one in the pic looks like they are not connected.

[fish fingers]

joe montgomery caught it on a 2/0 hook the greeder little beggar took the hook right into its mouth but not into the gut so it swam away no bother

[fish fingers]

your dead right thier dabcatcher but i think we should call it a montgomery sea snail welldone joe