Red gurnard
Chelidonichthys cuculus · Everything else
Also called gurnard
A smaller reddish gurnard found mainly in the south, especially the English Channel.[1]
How to recognise it
When and where
- Season
- Jun–Sep[1]
- Found over
- sand, broken ground, scattered rocks, sandbanks[1]
- Baits
- mackerel strip, herring strip, ragworm, lugworm, mussel, squid, peeler crab, sandeel[1]
- Light
- A visual hunter that feeds well in daylight.[1]
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.