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Topecatcher

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  1. Hi topecatcher do you know(silly question ) what their normal prey fish is or do they have a varied diet Its just that we are having a run of makerel and bait fish right now so they my be on the prowl :lol:

     

    I can only vouch for my neck of the woods but if the Mackerel are there so will the Tope.

  2. I think you would be suprised just how many Tope are off the North East coast. they have been caught as a commercial bycatch off the dogger bank for years. Nobody bothered to fish for them off the Holderness coast (recently described as the future capital of Tope fishing, don't tell Ian that though lol) untill recently and believe me they are not hard to locate, basically get the baits down and the fish will find you. I don't for one minute think the Tope reach Flamborough head and then do a u turn and head back down south.

  3. hi dave,

     

    that was my thoughts as the wound was totally healed, just one of those things that turns up now and then, though admittedly i haven't seen much exept for twisted up cod in the clyde which in my infinite stupidity put down to a shallow gene pool in the cod of the clyde system

     

    hows the fishing your end at the moment??

     

    les

    The fishings very good at the moment with plenty of codling and Pollock about. The Tope should arrive in numbers any day now.

  4. We was off Scarborough last week when the spotter plane came losely followed by the fisheries protection vessel. Point is though we could hear the fisheries officer calling over the radio to the commercial boats for at least an hour before they approached, ample warning I would think to prepare for a boarding if you were doing anything you should't be,

  5. Yet tried it and caught on it although I was using it cocktail fashion with another bait.

    Think mine came from Jaybee.

    Would use it again though which is more than I would say about ultrabite.

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