Nine out of ten.

I made the most of some nice weather last week, heading down to St Abbs Harbour for a session with fellow species hunter Luke. We set ourselves a target of ten species just after we started fishing and ended up catching nine. Some juvenile pollock were the first species of the day. Working a small piece of ragworm over the bottom produced a few long spined sea scorpion. Dropping my rig close to the edge of a kelp bed by the harbour mouth produced my first ballan wrasse of the year. Heading around the harbour, I caught this flounder. Whilst trying to catch a corkwing from a gully this chunky blenny appeared and munched my bait. We spent a bit of time fishing over a clean sandy patch, sight fishing for this nice plaice which we both ended up catching! Tying on tanago hooks, we both caught some painted goby from a shallow sandy patch. Back at the mouth of the harbour, Luke caught a few corkwing wrasse before I finally caught this nice colourful male. Not long before we called it a day,…