SPECIES HUNTS....
We have a very varied sea life in the North Channel out from Portpatrick and we can run a species hunt for those who want to try something different. We have caught 42 species of fish out from Portpatrick with about 14 regular suspects....
Species caught:
cod,haddock,whiting,pouting,ling,poor cod,pollack,coalfish
red,grey and tub gurnard
megrim,topknot,plaice,dab,flounder,
thornback ray,cuckoo ray, spotted ray and blonde ray
tadpole fish
mackerel,herring,launce,scad,pilchard and garfish
tope,spurdog,huss,LSD,smoothound
common skate
scorpion fish
three bearded rockling
brown crab
lobster
cuckoo,corkswing,goldscinny and ballan wrasse
conger eel,