A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN

Dogfish for three, pout and a poor cod for seven. Doggie for five! Yes, it’s a Friday, and once again I am out for a day’s fishing with the lads fishing the Species League.

Having previously joined this group of ultra-competitive species hunters on one of their monthly matches at Lyme Regis, and Swansea, today it was Minehead’s opportunity to show what was on offer on the species front.

But it’s mid-November, the water is coloured, and it is unlikely that there will be any big surprises. So, what can we expect to catch? Talk among the two crews fishing aboard Osprey and Teddy Boy seems to focus upon, perhaps, a dozen species per boat, possibly as many as

15. That being so, this is the last but one