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Boat fishing for tope
Tope are relatively easy to identify. They can only really be confused with smoothound. The quick way to check between the two is the teeth. Tope have true shark’s teeth, triangulated, serrated and...
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Boat fishing for bass
Bass are one of our most popular and easily recognised fish. They can only really be confused with either the wreckfish or the black bream, though both these fish have much deeper bodies when viewed...
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Boat fishing for gurnards
Tub, grey and red gurnards are all relatively common. The streaked gurnard is on the very northern edge of its range here in the UK and lives in very deep water, so is rarely caught. The tub gurnard is...
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Boat fishing for spurdog
At first glance it is possible to confuse the spurdog with either a small tope, also both the common and starry smoothound. But the giveaway is in the spurdogs name. The spurdog carries the unique...
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Boat fishing for plaice
Plaice are fairly distinctive and can only really be confused with dabs and flounders. Plaice though have a series of 4 to 7 bony knobs running rearwards from the eyes towards the pectoral fin. These...
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Boat fishing for black bream
Black bream are deep bodied with a relatively short, small head. The body is covered in large armoured scales and the dorsal fin bears sharp spines. The jaws carry fine, sharp and slightly curved...
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Boat fishing for blue shark
The blue shark is distinctive having a long, slim in profile body shape, with long, slightly curved pectoral fins, whereas the pectoral fins on other sharks are noticeably shorter, and in proportion,...
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Boat fishing for ling
There are no fish in UK waters to really confuse the ling with due to its long, slender profiled, body. The first dorsal is short and rounded, with the second dorsal long reaching from the rear of the...
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Boat fishing for smoothhound
There are, though there has been some debate about this recently, two types of smoothhound, the common and starry smoothhound. But given the differences in the two fish as outlined below, most anglers...
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Boat fishing for cod
When offshore fishing, inexperienced anglers can confuse pollack with cod, but the pollack has a more tapered head and the bottom jaw extends beyond the top jaw. The cod has a blunter head, and the eye...
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