Ragworm Ball

[Jaffa]

[ 12. February 2005, 07:55 PM: Message edited by: Jaffa ]

[Jaffa]

oops tried to edit and managed to quote

[Ken Davison South Wales]

I spoke to a charter skipper and he said he had seen skate on a few occasions sailing as he put it. He thought they were using the tide flow to move from one feeding area to another.

[Ken Davison South Wales]

The eels is another strange one, perhaps they were gathering for their trip across the Atlantic, a sort of breding swarm.

[sam-cox]

When rag worm migrate to spawn they shoal up and tern green, they also go realy limp and slimey, one can not get them on a hook at this stage.

[MainBassMan]

"As you remarked in a previous thread Ken, it's amazing what wildlife and natural phenomena are there to be seen by the observant. I've witnessed some real close-up animal life and my father saw the northern lights years back whilst up on the N Norfolk coast one night."

 

 

I saw the northern lights a couple of months back whilst staying all night at Abbotsbury - a sight to behold!!

 

[ 12. February 2005, 11:17 PM: Message edited by: MainBassMan ]

[Guest jay_con]

Sounds amazing. Friend of mine told me he saw thousands of rag crawling over the scar one night. Perhaps these were on the way to the rag orgy?

[Jaffa]

Interesting about the Skate Ken, maybe some of the AN skate gurus will know more?

 

No idea about the eels but i seem to remember a marine biology class where the lecturer said that the energy budget of eels heading for the sargasso sea did not "add up: On the knowledge they had the calculations said the eels should not be able to make it; yet they clearly do

 

Do they gather and shoal maybe?, perhaps something like geese where they take turns at being the front runner? im so rusty and out of date i have no idea. Any ideas yourself?

 

Sam, i only dig rag in the summer and never paid much attention to the green colour, also never had problems hooking them though i rarely cast far at all. What time of year were you getting them and did they still look "normal" other than the green colour?

[Jaffa]

What time of year winter?

[Guest jay_con]

i will ask him