Jay La Roche of South East Lure Angling had a colourful day’s fishing last Sunday and reports:
“I got out again today for a couple of hours in the afternoon aiming for a few scorpion fish. I got to my mark at dead low tide and was amazed to see the difference 2 days can make to a mark the swell that was there previous had all but disappeared leaving the sea almost flat calm and looked perfect for wrasse on the lrf gear
I rigged up initially with a small 1.5g jighead and berkley fish fry in natural . I love the action of this lure in the water it has a great tail which really vibrates with the slightest of twitches. I fished for around an hour before I managed to find my first Long Spined scorpion.
A nice little fish with a coloration almost identical to the rock it was lying on before it took the lure. I fished on with this and continued to look for another fish but with no luck so I changed lure and head to a pink isome section with a rockfish jighead. It wasnt long until I picked up another beautifully red coloured fish.
I continued fishing and spotted a small corkwing wrasse sitting in a gap in the rocks. I must have spent a good half hour chopping and changing lures to see if I could entice the fish but no matter what I done it had absolutely no interest in any lure I had. So on I moved and managed to pick up another nice Scorpion from another hole.
This was the only fish of the day that had the red markings and beginnings of a yellow underside like the fish I had in my previous post. It also got really defensive with the skin retracting on its two main spines exposing the sharp tips which I wouldn’t like to get a mouthful of if I was a predator.
I had one other scorpion fish today which was my biggest one of the session.
A really nicely coloured fish with a nice mottled wine/brown colour. The variety in the colours of these fish and there sheer tenacity/attitude are what make them my favourite of all the mini species we have around our coastline.”
Compliment of:
Jay La Roche
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