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THE ACTUAL BUCKET LIST 100 species

Colin Penny: skipper of the Weymout

TABLE OF CONTENTS Page The Actual B

Long Rough Dab 153 Turbot 154 Brill

Introduction to the Gobies 251 Blac

Bitterling 322 Gudgeon 323 Bleak 32

Spain 479 Thailand 479 Tunisia 484

As always, with any sort of ambitio

Working in conjunction with these i

viviparous reproduction, and the me

possible, use a landing net, and th

Only when a world record claim was

pectorals, with the second dorsal d

The harbour itself completely dries

Nor can weights be estimated by usi

shark and porbeagle exploits, all o

Mincing also makes demands on the m

Plymouth and some of the surroundin

That however isn't the entire story

Mark Ward, 71 pound Norfolk Tope I

off around Shell Wharf to the south

Network (SSACN), and it was on thes

COMMON SMOOTHHOUND Mustelus mustelu

But you would be wrong. Because exp

There are lots of good smoothhound

But it was a long hard fought campa

The object of the exercise was to c

LESSER SPOTTED DOGFISH Scyliorhinus

One of the few occasions when I can

When they were more numerous than t

With its recent history, can there

Getting back to the history of thos

Ross Johnson, skate from the shore

From the shore, obviously, it won't

I remember one particular fish that

have a lot to do with numbers, dist

That said, I have on occasion been

I once took a bucket full of live m

With fast tides, a profusion of ban

igger than ten pounds, then it's a

Spotted Rays also lack rough prickl

A strikingly beautiful fish which e

An occasional specimen might even t

Most of the time we spent fishing i

Another of those at best rarely rep

A much smaller fish of more souther

As with all species, and for a rang

Our first trips didn't exactly ligh

etween Christmas and the last big t

The Fylde would fish best after a b

Muppets too began to appear in a ra

own boat over there to fish the rou

Colouration and lateral line are tw

Deep diving plugs too, providing th

pollack have a protruding lower jaw

The upper flanks and back have been

From my own experience, certainly f

photograph of a whiting he'd caught

s monofilament to help eliminate se

fishermen, presented as a flapper,

mouth is noticeably dark. There can

LING Molva molva Bucket List status

Mac McAllister, Whitby Ling Now, th

GREATER FORKBEARD Phycis blennoides

In common with all the rocklings, t

SHORE ROCKLING Gaidropsarus mediter

I used to tag along to collect dise

As with the more familiar flounder

fish, little realising that they we

Though it was still very early in t

A fish with a distribution potentia

aits, and a tiny sliver of squid or

e enough to push them right out wit

Hooks obviously can be bigger where

He also uses this description for t

I spent some time chatting to Paul

fin extending right around to the h

Whatever the reason, it did actuall

From the shore it's slightly differ

161 And if you are not holding your

MEGRIM Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis B

Colouration is brown with some dark

Dan Burrows, Fleetwood Because of m

Where there are still a few bass le

ecruitment in the face of imminent

As ever, there was always the dange

The EU is relying on existing enfor

The total reduction in fishing mort

south, as it is a common enough fis

A fish with a large mouth and power

weaning these otherwise algae graze

spots, and put in the time both swi

Ollie Stenning, 8.7.4 Thin Lip reco

Despite living nearby in Hampshire,

Simply fold the pectoral fin forwar

Otherwise, a family of fishes of vi

epeated off the Yorkshire coast. Ye

were forced to remove their fightin

So far as I can ascertain, this is

different scales starting at the gi

everywhere as was once the case. Wi

Quite an unusual visitor to our pat

Four of us we were drift fishing a

Physically, the almaco is a slightl

Already we are seeing that, not onl

the end of the trip, still with no

I've had it happen to me on more th

What clinched that line of thinking

much stronger sharper hooks, and bu

Mike Thrussell, Gilthead Bream I ha

BOGUE Boops boops Bucket List statu

AXILLARY BREAM Pagellus acarne Buck

Caught out, instead of reversing th

The biggest of the four was put at

So there I am winding in, certain I

CUCKOO WRASSE Labrus mixtus Bucket

For deliberately targeting them, th

The scientific wisdom suggests it t

As is the trend with most of the gu

In this particular case however, re

Although I've never caught one myse

So you can expect to see them in mo

The knock on effect would also sign

Phill Williams, Shad on fly Unusual

THE GOBIES Potentially quite a larg

Colouration varies between reddish

TOMPOT BLENNY Parablennius gattorug

BLACK FACED BLENNY Tripterygion del

A very dark blue-grey fish over its

If it's a conger, the eye will be l

Yes, conger can be a handful. Dange

to make a short flowing 10/0 hook t

Anyway, a good hour went by without

More recently, that trend has given

A fish well capable of weights well

eam covered in a mosaic of heavy sc

Trigger fish are not overly demandi

Distribution extends throughout all

exaggerated long filaments stretchi

sometimes lighter vertical bars on

GREATER WEEVER Trachinus draco Buck

SHORT SPINED SEA SCORPION Myoxoceph

The anal fin follows a similar patt

Colouration is sandy brown with a s

By far the biggest numbers I have e

RED BAND FISH Cepola rubescens Buck

FIFTEEN SPINED STICKLEBACK Spinchia

After spawning, the adults drop bac

So not a likely repeat prospect for

As for mirrors, commons, leathers a

That was it. We would film a demons

Granted, Richard Walker was from a

Anglers however tend to have mixed

It took us some searching to locate

RUDD Scardinius erythrophthalmus Bu

Match anglers love them too, as all

ait on their heads and immediately

BARBEL Barbus barbus Bucket List st

In addition to that, Mike also had

More towards the back-end however,

Looking at recent reports of catch

Let's start with the feel of the fi

distances on a regular basis to fis

I'd never been to East Anglia befor

Phill Williams, small Zander locati

Not exactly a fish to set the world

Dave and Paul went straight for the

For a whole range of reasons you co

Let's also not lose sight of the fa

You only have to look at the wider

villa I stayed in. Using worms boug

THREE SPINED STICKLEBACK Gasteroste

Included in the adipose finned spec

Other boats also came ashore with s

Theoretically, a very straight forw

particular tenkara fly fishing come

A scale count from the adipose fin

Living in a three dimensional world

the hook inside a small ball of the

Colouration is typically dark green

In Grayling circles, I have to say

around one hundred and forty or so

across the lake, and would therefor

There were certainly less fish abou

One day, Bob Fitchie and I decided

Inspired by Wally's catch, John and

PART TWO BEYOND HOME WATERS THE CAT

Cape Cod is a venue where bass in t

The obvious problem was that Dave,

FLORIDA - BISCAYNE CANAL When I fis

So why go to the trouble of fishing

It's just a pity that the hundred o

This is controlled by a single lock

idea was that as the light faded, t

You could drop a live mullet or blu

Having fished there on a number of

getting access to big fish too for

and reels supplied on-board, which

Paul Bennett hooked up a huge snapp

As one local party boat angler put

The entrance can get quite busy wit

Each morning at breakfast we would

407 What we had not expected was ei

cameras, this went into a rucksack

The fishing itself was straight for

ottom. It was all bait fishing with

Smaller asp on the other hand tend

also run this river in their millio

Surprisingly, for the size of these

Eventually it appeared within reach

On one occasion, as soon as I touch

shark, which, along with a fish I h

fixed spool reels. Fortunately we h

As it would turn out, this was the

A stretch of land separated from th

The food was very nice. Fresh lobst

What you needed to do was cast as f

He in turn blamed the local lads on

against the concrete above us and h

The one remaining option was to go

More important still, so too were t

Our problem was catching the necess

Unfortunately, everything seemed to

was emptied, carried to us by scant

me there from Calangute where I was

In less than half an hour it was mi

said, as I'm not one for aimlessly

This happened a couple more times b

inside edge of the reef. As the sto

limited time, we were satisfied, an

Phill Williams, Puerto Vallarta Jac

Some days he would even walk into t

Were it not for the many bite-offs,

Gurnards very similar to our tub gu

Cod though were always the number o

up into the jungle. So late in fact

As was often the case, the chat wen

things turned out, it was nothing o

Grass Carp: Photo Bill Rushmer. Vir

Char in breeding livery: Photo Phil

Danny Cove 200 pound Stingray: Phot

My angling hero & mentor, Davy Agne

The Lesser Spotted curse: Photo Phi