Petra, Lesvos

After leaving home at about 4am, 1 hour train ride, about 8 hours in the airport due to a Greek air strike, about 4 hours in the air, and another 90 minutes drive, we arrive in Petra (Πέτρα) about about 11pm. I was hoping to be able to fish on the first day but no luck.

Our hotel room was about halfway between the town and the jetty so it was a perfect location for fishing. In the afternoon, I bought a single small bagget and headed straight for the jetty. When I got there, I found a few scrap calamari bits and used that on the hook first. Not much going, had bites but nothing connected. Some localed drove up and parked next to where I was fishing and I soon realised why I wasn't landing anything. The locals mostly used handlines with up to about 6 small hooks baited with prawns. First cast and there were several 3" pink coloured seabream and an ornate wrasse on the line which were kept for the table. I downsided to size 14 hooks and landed my first fish. It was a Comber [#103]. It was about 2" long but it was at least a fish. My first ever fish of the 'grouper' family, Serranidae, some of these guys grow to 2 metres long, but the comber only grows to about 10"-14". They actually remind me of a small coral trout which are also members of same family.


Comber - Serranus cabrilla #103


Annular Seabream - Diplodus annularis #104

My goal for this trip was to catch a few species of bream, as I massively dipped out in the canaries, catching only the Gilthead, so this was a good start. The local fisherman gave me a handful of prawns to fish with and with that, I caught my first Annualar Bream [#104]. I had seen them before in turkey but had never caught one. This one was about 6" long, but I was quite happy with that. I still wondered what species the pink bream caught by the local was, but no luck, better luck next time.


Annular Seabream - Diplodus annularis


Annular Seabream - Diplodus annularis