You may have yourself a British Record there Ryan and you didn't even have to kill it!!!I didnt even weigh it - I called the Exploris aquarium who were interested in it - so I did my best to keep it alive and brought it to them, it was still alive when I handed it over to them so I am waiting on word if it survived or not.
Ryan
Yup that's a well known "hotspot" for themI caught one just outside Portland harbour a couple of years ago on a baited shrimp rig. It was during a species hunt so was worth mega points.
Not quite true, they are a native species around the whole of the UK, see http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=56&genusname=Cepola&speciesname=macrophthalmaI am told that immature fish and eggs came to the UK inside barnacles on the hulls of american warships that put into Portland. The fish either got themselves out or were washed off the hulls when they were cleaned. Whether that is right or not I do not know.