species hunt

DNA Versus Species Hunt

Huge Scorpion Fish For Dan


On the 11th August, Dan and I went head-to-head competing against each other to become the DNA Fishing Podcast Species Champion, fishing LRF methods around Portsmouth on one of the hottest days of the year.

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Oops! We did it again

Butterfly Blenny UK
Butterfly Blenny Closeup
What’s better than catching a Butterfly Blenny by fluke? Targeting Butterfly Blenny to order!

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CLF 2023 Species Hunt

Red Long Spined Sea Scorpion


Not long back from the 2023 Cornish Lure Festival fishing the Species event. And I really enjoyed it.

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Lure Caught Shore Rockling

Shore Rockling
Shore Rockling Dorsal
Shore Rockling is a new lure-caught species for me. This Shore Rockling takes me to 51 UK saltwater species caught on lures.

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Axillary Seabream in UK Waters

Red Seabream
UPDATE 13/11/2024 – The fish that was originally identified as an Axillary Seabream is in fact a juvenile Red Seabream (Pagellus bogaraveo)

Okay, I’m leaving the original blog post below for prosperity, but I’ve completely u-turned on my original thoughts about this species.

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CLF 2022 Video

Wow. What a great fishing film by Andy Ford and his son Ben. We’re lucky to have them both involved in angling. This is the official video for the Cornish Lure Festival 2022

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Painted Goby

Painted Goby Saddles
Celebrated my 49th fish species on artificials by taking some incredibly dull photos of this Painted Goby. At least this photo shows the characteristic ‘saddles’ on the back.

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