Its January 2013 and I have set myself the challenge of trying to catch as many species of sea fish as I can from UK waters in a calendar year. Living in Bristol I have great local fishing in the form of the Bristol Channel and I will also be making regular trips down to the south coast around Weymouth. This blog will chart my progress throughout the year and will hopefully keep me focused on the task at hand.
I'm looking for a final figure of at least 35 species. In 2012 I managed a total of 33 species (ballen wrasse, ballions wrasse, bass, black bream, black goby, blonde ray, brill, bull huss, cod, common goby, corkwing wrasse, dab, dragonet, garfish, gold sinney wrasse, lesser spotted dogfish, launce, ling, long spined sea scorpion, mackerel, plaice, pollack, poor cod, pout, red band fish, red gurnard, silver eel, starrey smoothhound, thick lipped grey mullet, thornback ray, tompot blenney, turbot and whiting).
This list is missing a few species I would normally expect to catch such as conger eel, cuckoo wrasse and scad so with a bit of luck I should hit my target and if i can find a couple of new species and maybe a personal best or 2 along the way all the better.
Fingers crossed for a good year.
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