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Guest NickInTheNorth

Guest NickInTheNorth

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Hi Guys looking for help identifying this fish.

 

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Caught it in about 60 feet of water from a dinghy about 100 metres off shore on feathers. Also a couple of small pollack.

 

It went back alive after it had it's picture taken.

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chesters1 Member

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oh no its the deadly fish ,if you touch this fish with bare hands near a piknik table used a a saw bench whilst standing near grass ,within feet of flowers and a fence its curtains for you

p.s can i have all your fishing stuff?

p.p.s the death comes within 60 or 70 years

but you could send you stuff now incase you forget.

it looks like some sort of angler fish thats lost its rod.

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Never thought they grew that big! Looked at the UK record 2lb 7oz in 1982 caught by B G Logan, Whitley Bay, Tyne & Wear. Micks right Sea Scorpion. Ugly Bugger init.

 

[ 07 April 2002, 03:37 PM: Message edited by: Harold ]

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Yes, Short-spined Sea Scorpion, also known as the Bull-rout or Father Lasher.

 

The Long-spined Sea Scorpion is commonly found in rock pools and doesn't grow nearly as big.

 

Yet another reason to fish from Muck !

 

Well done Nick - this fish is probably in the top ten sea-scorps for Scottish waters!

 

 

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Hiya,

 

As vagabond said it's a Short Spined Sea Scorpion and not a bad one at that :-)

My bro used to hold the European record for it with a fish of 2lb 2oz from the shore at greenock many moons ago, the sod still holds the Scottish shore record for Plaice.. 5lb 7oz....

Davy

 

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John S Member

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Am I right in thinking that the spines on those things are venomous? I remember a pal of mine catching something similar out of Bridlington harbour a few years ago and suffering afterwards....

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Species caught in 2016: Alder, Blackthorn, Common Ash, Crab Apple, Left Earlobe, Pedunculate Oak, Rock Whitebeam, Scots Pine, Smooth-leaved Elm, Swan, Wayfaring tree.

Species caught in 2015: Ash, Bird Cherry, Black-Headed Gull, Common Hazel, Common Whitebeam, Elder, Field Maple, Gorse, Puma, Sessile Oak, White Willow.

Species caught in 2014: Big Angry Man's Ear, Blackthorn, Common Ash, Common Whitebeam, Downy Birch, European Beech, European Holly, Hawthorn, Hazel, Scots Pine, Wych Elm.
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Species caught in 2012: Ash, Aspen, Beech, Big Nasty Stinging Nettle, Birch, Copper Beech, Grey Willow, Holly, Hazel, Oak, Wasp Nest (that was a really bad day), White Poplar.
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Species caught in 2010: Ash, Beech, Birch, Elder, Elm, Gorse, Mullberry, Oak, Poplar, Rowan, Sloe, Willow, Yew.

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