North Wales Spawn of Padrig?

[Andy 1965]

For those of you who remember the tale of Padrig, the unstoppable beast of Northern Anglesey, I've just seen this on Facebook.

Washed up on an Anglesey beach and tentatively identified as a mermaids purse from a flapper skate!


This was one of the more plausible suggestions made for the identity of the beast, as they were apparently once caught in the area by commercial fishermen. So who knows, this could possibly have contained the spawn of Padrig .

 

[JLD]

Which means Paddy is still around.

 

[Viaductbaggies]

Or it could of been washed up from travelling from who knows where or is the monster from the deep still around

Out of interest are dogfish still being caught with bands round them ?

 

[Andy 1965]

Or it could of been washed up from travelling from who knows where or is the monster from the deep still around

Out of interest are dogfish still being caught with bands round them ?

It's quite possible that the mermaids purse might have drifted for quite a distance but Arron Smith, a charter skipper from Holyhead says that he knows of at least 3 skate caught commercially in nets off Anglesey and 2 more caught on rod and line, all within 2 miles of shore .

As for banded doggies, yes they are still being caught. I haven't had one for a few years now but I heard of 1 caught last year.

 

[richtic]

Or it could of been washed up from travelling from who knows where or is the monster from the deep still around

Out of interest are dogfish still being caught with bands round them ?

Not since they put magnets in the bands

 

[Viaductbaggies]

Not since they put magnets in the bands

Was that something fechellbaits mentioned about magnets deterring dogfish ? Can’t remember

 

[richtic]

Was that something fechellbaits mentioned about magnets deterring dogfish ? Can’t remember

You have a good memory

 

[Kine262]

You have a good memory

Magnets? A bit like Hook-a-Duck?

 

[richtic]

Magnets? A bit like Hook-a-Duck?

Many years ago on the Darkside there was talk that magnets gave you less chance of catching Dogfish ie magnet as your weight and so on.

 

[Viaductbaggies]

You have a good memory

Totally forgot about it till you just brought it up then I was trying to remember who mentioned it

Wonder what ever happened to wyn another character gone

 

[richtic]

Totally forgot about it till you just brought it up then I was trying to remember who mentioned it

Wonder what ever happened to wyn another character gone

Yea he was using magnetized hooks if i remember rightly.

 

[Kine262]

Many years ago on the Darkside there was talk that magnets gave you less chance of catching Dogfish ie magnet as your weight and so on.

So were people deliberately using magnets to avoid dogfish? I didn't realise that you could get magnet weights.

 

[Kine262]

Yea he was using magnetized hooks if i remember rightly.

Just seen this, ignore message above.

 

[richtic]

So were people deliberately using magnets to avoid dogfish? I didn't realise that you could get magnet weights.

Here is something about it https://www.worldseafishing.com/thr...he-truth-and-moel-y-don-report.2170151/page-2

 

[richtic]

Sorry @Andy 1965 for hijacking your thread a bit

 

[Kine262]

Here is something about it https://www.worldseafishing.com/thr...he-truth-and-moel-y-don-report.2170151/page-2

It's an interesting premise and something that I wrote about in a coarse fishing magazine a few years ago, in relation to barbel fishing. A couple of tackle companies had bought out hook boxes with magnets in the bottom of each section to stop the hooks from falling out. I had noticed that the steel hooks had become slightly magnetised after being in the box for a while so wondered if the weak magnetic field given off by the hook might put barbel off taking a bait. I carried out a season long comparison of two baits fished on two rods but close together in the same swim, one with a hook out of a packet and one that came out of the magnetised box, same setup, same size and type of bait, same hook size and pattern.

Maybe this needs to go on the freshwater thread so that we don't take over Andy's thread.

 

[chesilpete]

Sorry mate.... I was that pissed on new years eve I got half a naan down in one go.
Obvs the water company let it flush straight through, sniff your fingers can you smell Dhansak and Guinness?

 

[richtic]

Sorry mate.... I was that pissed on new years eve I got half a naan down in one go.
Obvs the water company let it flush straight through, sniff your fingers can you smell Dhansak and Guinness?

Not sure your on the correct thread

 

[chesilpete]

Not sure your on the correct thread

If my reply fits any other thread..... that thread should be deleted !

 

[Treeby]

Not since they put magnets in the bands

Actually had one with 3 bands on it last week from Amlwch. Definitely no magnets!!