Triggerfish
Balistes capriscus · Everything else
Also called trigger fish, trigger
The grey triggerfish is the only triggerfish regularly recorded in UK waters. It is a warm-water visitor reported in growing numbers off the south and west coasts, with no evidence yet of breeding here.[1]
How to recognise it
When and where
- Season
- Jun–Aug[2]
- Found over
- rocky ground, broken ground, piers, rock faces[2]
- Baits
- mussels, peeler crab, mackerel strip, ragworm, squid[2]
A guide suggests targeting them in summer, in southern areas where they have been reported.[2]
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.