Grey Viking - Brighton

I booked a chartboat trip to fish off brighton for Smoothounds and after a few cancellations, finally managed to go out.

Got to the Marina a few hours early so I had a stroll around the marina and found a few nice grey mullet feeding as well as a whole lot of Plumose Anemone.



Thicklip Grey Mullet - Chelon labrosus



Plumose Anemone - Metridium senile

Once we sailed out of port and settled down to fish, people started to hook into some fish, a few dabs and mackerel and then a Starry Smooth-hound came aboard. They looked very much like Gummy Sharks back in Austraia. They are actually just a difference species from the same genus.



Starry Smooth-hound - Mustelus asterias



Starry Smooth-hound - Mustelus asterias

A total of 4 Smoothhounds were caught, none to me though. I only managed to hook into 3 Lesser Spotted Dogfish [#90], I even got grazed by their sandpaper-like skin, which stung like a ....



Lesser Spotted Dogfish - Scyliorhinus canicula #90



Lesser Spotted Dogfish - Scyliorhinus canicula

On the way back home, we I photographed this nice Gannet:



Northern Gannet - Morus bassanus