Turbot

[Matt_B]

Morning all

 

I'm after some advice on turbot fishing. Did some last year in Weymouth on the shambles and really enjoyed it. Is it just as simple as locating some sandbanks and trying? and are they only over sand? Do they have any prefence to depth of water? What time of the tide, and size of tide, do they feed?

 

I'm in the Brighton area if anyone knows of any specific marks

 

Thanks in advance.

[Vagabond]

Several sand/shell banks used to be good. Eg Varne (Kent), Shambles (Dorset), Skerries (Devon) and Coverack, just inshore of the Manacles (Cornwall) I haven't fished them for some time, but am pleased to hear the Shambles still yields turbot.

 

We used to drift the bank with live sandeel. The turbot and brill used to lie just downtide of the bank and snap up the sandeel as it came over the ridge.

 

Don't know of any present-day marks off Sussex, although there used to be the chance of the odd turbot out in Tide Mills Bay (Newhaven) and on the Cavendish and Coppar banks off Langney Point (Eastbourne)

 

Before our fellow-members of the Federated States of Europe swept the Channel almost bare of fish, there was even the chance of the odd shore-caught turbot off Langney or the Buckle.

 

These days, if I want a reasonable chance of catching a turbot from the shore, I have to go as far afield as the Isle of Man :mad: :mad:

 

[ 03. June 2003, 06:09 PM: Message edited by: Vagabond ]

[fishy1]

Vagabond,from which beach can you catch turbot on the I-O-M ???.I'm off there for the first time 14june for 14days, any advice would be gratefully received fishy1

[Vagabond]

Fishy, you have pm

[spasor]

Fishy?

Turbot get caught from the shambles and other banks infrequently. They`re mostly caught by anglers putting down a double hook rig. One hook baited with rag tipped squid for plaice. The second hook baited with sandeel/fillet or long thin strip of mackeral for brill or turbot?

Ken Leicester, skipper of `Bonwey` out of Weymouth makes a habit of catching good turbot. The rest of the fleet follow his drifts, with not a lot of success? I think turbot are still not a species to target unless you`ve got infinite patience.

Paul.

[fishy1]

Vagabond,thought I'd better thank you on here else folks might think I'm ignorant, cheers m8 for the PMs.Spasor, thanks for that, I've had a couple of turbot from the shore but only small ones, but I keep hoping for one thats a decent size. tight lines fishy1