Grey gurnard
Eutrigla gurnardus · Everything else
Also called gurnard
The smallest of the three common gurnards, found in decent numbers around the UK, mostly over sand and mud.[1]
How to recognise it
When and where
- Season
- Jun–Sep[1]
- Found over
- sand, mud, sandbanks, harbours[2]
- Baits
- shrimp, sandeel, mackerel strip, ragworm, lugworm, mussel, squid[1]
- Light
- Feeds best in daylight.[2]
Gurnard move offshore in winter and come inshore in the warmer summer months. It also spawns inshore in summer.[1]
Sources
These notes are a draft: we gathered them from the sources above and are still checking them. We don't work out best times for this fish yet. The size rules come from the same checked byelaws as every other fish.