Having had the boat survey finish it was time for Hamish to get out on the water and do some fishing…

After working with surveyors for the past while it was back to business hunting the deep water at this time of year.

Two skate were caught, one of  which has been tagged before (tag no.1282). I don;t think it was tagged recently either –  the reason I say this is that I had to scrape the barnacles from the tag to reveal the tag number.

skate
…and another soon followed. It’s great to be back on the water.
skate
First skate of the day

 

Mackerel are still offshore in the middle of the channel and have yet to venture into the bays. I think this is going to be another bad year for them because of what’s happening up north.

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Once the barnacles were scrapped off we could read the tag number from the skate
Once the barnacles were scrapped off we could read the tag number from the skate
Blackmouth Dogfish
Blackmouth Dogfish