Shore Angling - Rays.

peelerking · Member Joined: May 05, 2008 Posts: 12

I've got 2 challenges this year, 1 is to catch some of the more obscure species (Tope, Stingers, Trigger fish ect) and the other is to catch as many species as I can over the year.

This Sunday night I'm targeting Rays, Thornies, small eye spoties, undulate. Where's is a good venue on the south coast to try for such creatures, what baits, distances, rigs ect.

I caught them off the shore before, but all my old spots have not yet produced any. crying

Thanks in advance.

lovegodmikey · Member Joined: Apr 07, 2008 Posts: 19

this time few years ago me and a mate were really successful at the double dykes hengistbury head caught on sand eel. always deep water there

geejay · Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 12:30 am Post subject:

i dunno where to start wi that question. very generally imho.

southbourne- sandeel or sandeel/squid , undulates have shown recently, smalleye should be about soon ,slim chance of a spotty.

hordle-highcliffe-avon beach, baits as above , smalleye as main target.

west solent-(lymington- calshot) fish/squid/worm/crab baits, thornies most likely if still about, v,slim chance of stingers to worm but a bit early i recon.

sotton water , poss thornies from the deeper venues to worm/crab &fish baits.

east solent, warsash- lee-on... worm/squid/sandeel,crab, thornies, v,slim chance of stinger.

lee on....- kicker , baits as above, thornie , smalleye, chance of spotty from kicker, also heard of a stinger from there recently.

i'll just have a shufti at sundays tides/weather-

geejay · Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 12:44 am Post subject:

weather n tides look ok for most venues i've mentioned .