Not more species hunting adventures on Gran Canaria?!: Part 4.

Keen to catch at least one new species during the holiday, I’d been discussing opportunities with local angler Jesús on Instagram prior to the trip and had arranged to meet up with him to try and locate and then hopefully catch a sailfin blenny. Arriving in Punta de Gáldar in the morning, we met up with Jesús and the three of us made our way along a cliff top path before carefully making our way down a narrow winding path to some rockpools at the bottom of them. While I started fishing away, catching rockpool blenny, Molly Miller and a bright red Madeira rockfish, Jesús focused on looking for the target species. Being almost certainly the first person in the world to catch one on hook and line, I was happy to let him do so. A very small species, growing to a maximum length of only 5.5cm, and just a recent arrival to Gran Canaria, Jesús knew where to look and called me over when he spotted some in a very small rockpool. I tried to spot a sailfin blenny around the edges of large…