I had been blaming crabs for hooks coming back in stripped of bait, and indeed there were a fair number of crustaceans about. However, looking at the footage back home…
The turbot is a wide bodied flatfish with the eyes on the left side of its head. The body is without scales but there are boney tubercles on it although these are sometimes only on the underside.
The Alderney turbot season has taken off with a big bang. Local angler Mark Harding has been right in the thick of the action and brings you a hot-off-the-press feature…
Our planned boat fishing in north Donegal had been blown out, rained off and all but swept away by a freak tornado that announced itself by flattening a building site…